Cuentos Tranquilos

Vívimos in a company that privilegia the image on any another thing. Africa Vidal reflects on the consequences of this situation for the woman that is created freed but that, reality, is felt more watched.

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...

Una obra que comprende ensayos, con una amplia mirada internacional, para el estudio del libro manuscrito, impreso y digital. Éstos utilizan modelos teóricos que combinan tanto los dos enfoques predominantes para el estudio del libro, como el menos explorado. Encontramos así, el que se podría denominar ideológico, el cual considera al libro como reflejo parcial de las mentalidades de las culturas donde se desarrolla; por otro lado está el enfoque comercial, aquel en que se pone especial atención a la circulación de los libros y por último el menos explorado, el denominado material,...

Patricia's class of misfits and individualists does fine until their teacher is replaced by the new assistant principal, Don Lucinio Seco, a strict disciplinarian who saps the will of those who disobey, and soon not only their teacher, but also the principal disappears.