Treasury of Children's Classics in Spanish and English

Estudio de los métodos pictóricos de composición, de la trama como estructura lineal sobre la que habrá de organizarse el cuadro, a través del análisis de las fuentes, desde los escritos de Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Pacioli, Lomazzo o Durero, hasta los de Sérusier, Kandinsky y Mondrian.

Cristina Iglesias (b.1956, San Sebastian, Spain) belongs to a generation of artists who since the late 80s and early 90s have brought about the expansion of the sculptural object into the realm of installation. In contrast with her "modernist" predecessors, Iglesias often evokes the female body, establishing relationships between it and commonly used objects such as furniture, rooms and architectural constructions. She also challenges the idea of representation by means of an aesthetic vocabulary based on the use of varied materials, such as concrete, resin, iron, and glass, and techniques,...

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...

La ceguera en el cine es un ensayo en el que se aborda una amplia selección de títulos cinematográficos en torno a un tema de interés social. En la obra se pone de manifiesto desde diferentes enfoques la importancia de los aspectos vitales de la ceguera en la experiencia de los personajes que la soportan, directa o indirectamente, y se indaga en los géneros cinematográficos que la explotan. Se analizan 125 películas en las que la ceguera es parte esencial del argumento con una crítica pormenorizada de cada una de ellas. Un trabajo fundamental para cualquier cinéfilo con inquietudes...