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The unprepared visitor of the Orsay Museum in Paris usually receives a more or less pleasant shock upon finding in the hall of the symbolists the enormous painting The School of Plato. It is a scene that is at once serene and sensual, reflective and brazen, enigmatic yet very direct A Plato that appears very similar to Jesus speaks to twelve disciples who, fortunately, seem nothing like the apostles. Is this a merciful blasphemy or simply a whim? The painting was made in 1898 by a relatively unknown Belgian symbolist, Jean Delville, who was a very curious man, a fanatic of idealism in...

Arte, revista dedicada a las diversas expresiones diversas de la cultura, circulo durante 17 numeros en la ciudad de Mocorito, Sinaloa, en la primera decada del siglo. Sus directores fueron Enrique Gonzalez Martinez y Sixto Osuna. Argos fue un magacin editado en la ciudad de Mexico en 1912; lo dirigio Enrique Gonzalez Martinez durante los seis numeros que publicaron. Se ocupaba de informacion general (politica, sociales, espectaculos, arte y literatura) con secciones dedicadas al cinema y a resenar hechos ocurridos en la metropoli, Francia y Estados Unidos.

Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."—Harry Crews "The author . . . excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays. Like the desert he cherishes, this memoir is harsh yet lovely, full of sour self-truth. . ...

Au bout du monde, en Argentine, une plaine immense, vaste comme la France, lisse comme un billard, c’est la Pampa. De l’herbe à l’infini, des bovins lâchés dans la nature, des chevaux sauvages...Dans ce « vertige horizontal », pratiquement inexploré encore en 1856, un Parisien de vingt-quatre ans vient chercher fortune. Il ne doute de rien, se retrouve esclave des Indiens, battu, maltraité, vendu de tribu en tribu. Parvient enfin à s’enfuir après trois ans de captivité. Jules Verne s’inspirera de son histoire.À partir de cette aventure authentique, Pierre Kalfon bâtit...