Contemporanea

Este ensayo crítico en forma epistolar, escrita por Juan Agustín Ceán-Bermúdez (1749-1829) pintor, historiador y crítico de arte, alaba las cualidades únicas de la escuela de Sevilla y examina la obra de Bartolomé Murillo, el primer pintor español que logró renombre en toda Europa.

Además de preservar la memoria histórica del Taller Nacional de Crítica Cinematográfica de Camagüey, este libro resume el pensamiento crítico vertido, durante un cuarto de siglo, en las sesiones teóricas de este evento, uno de los más importantes que en el ámbito cinematográfico del país se desarrolla. Con su amena glosa sobre los más trascendentales temas allí tratados y con el privilegio de ser uno de sus principales artífices, su autor hace veraz la opinión del cineasta Fernando Pérez cuando expresó que el Taller contribuyó a "complejizar la dinámica de nuestro...

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...

The correspondence between Joan Mir and Josep Llus Sert - comprehensively compiled for the first time in this publication - offers an essential document for understanding the convergence between these two individuals despite the physical distance that separated them for most of their lifetimes. The correspondence is supplemented with personal statements from Mir and Sert in the form of writings, photographs, sketches, architectural plans, and press clippings. This material has been consulted in the archives of the Josep Llus Sert Collection at Harvard University, the Fundaci Pilar i Joan Mir...