Catálogo de editoriales y librerías FED '19

Powerful Paintings from a Watercolor Master "The most nearly 'perfect' paintings to me are rarely the ones simply characterized by technical expertise. More often, they are the ones in which you can sense the beating heart of the artist just below the surface--flaws included." Twenty years into a career as architect and architectural illustrator, Thomas Schaller embarked upon a bold new path as a fine artist. Today he is one of the world's most accomplished watercolor artists, celebrated for his poignant treatment of light and its dynamic interplay with the natural and manmade landscape. The...

Este libro ofrece al lector el más importante estudio general realizado hasta la fecha en lengua española sobre la literatura china e incluso, en su conjunto, uno de los más valiosos dedicados a las literaturas extremo-orientales. La literatura china traducida en España representa no sólo una reflexión en la marcha de los estudios españoles relativos a la cultura de una nación inmensa y milenaria, por cuanto echa las bases de un conocimiento traductográfico y de recepción sumamente clarificador y riguroso para nuestro país y también nuestros propios intereses culturales, sino...

Para los que imaginaban a Montaigne encerrado en su torre, la espalda doblada, la pluma firme llenando con sus reflexiones hoja tras hoja, el libro de Lacouture ofrece una imagen completamente distinta. el autor nos presenta una biograf a rebosante de detalles pintorescos de las andanzas del humanista en su peregrinaci n.

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...