Memorias Para La Historia De La Real Academia De San Fernando Y De Las Bellas Artes En España: Desde El Advenimiento Al Trono De Felipe V, Hasta Nuest

After the death of Charles I of England, Parliament put up his entire art collection of more than 1500 pieces for auction, thus setting off an arms race of sorts among various powerful members of the European royalty and nobility to see who could acquire the greatest number of masterpieces. In this study, based on the lectures he gave for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies at the National Gallery, Jonathan Brown describes the extraordinary collection that Philip IV of Spain amassed as a result of this fire sale, as well as the collecting habits of individuals such as Archduke Leopold Wilhelm...

STORIES AND SKITS “IN GREEN" - Environment, Ecology and other values This book which contains 14 stories and 14 theatrical scripts, is an eco-environmental project that has as objective the diffusion and sensitization of values related with environment, ecology and the protection of all the resources that surround us, in order to throw a challenge to everyone, to take care of the present and thus to achieve a better future. The author uses a double technique: stories and the theater, or similarly, individual or group reading through caring and amusing narrations, and theatrical scripts,...

El presente libro constituye una exploración apasionante y rigurosa de las vías de cambio social abiertas por una nueva relación entre la comunicación y poder. Los medios de comunicación se han convertido en el ámbito en el que se despliegan las estrategias de poder, pero, en el actual contexto tecnológico, la comunicación de masas va más allá de los medios tradicionales: gracias a Internet y a los dispositivos móviles ha surgido un nuevo entorno comunicativo, la autocomunicación de masas, que ha modificado profundamente las relaciones de poder. Manuel Castells analiza las...

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...