La talla en madera

El taller es una guía clara y dinámica que facilita los primeros, difíciles y hermosos pasos en el fascinante oficio de escribir.

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

Las recientes transformaciones que han afectado la cadena de producción del libro se han analizado, en general, desde el punto de vista del proceso de racionalización y de concentración, como causantes de la aceleración del círculo de fusiones-adquisiciones de estos últimos años. Curiosamente, se ha prestado menos atención a las modificaciones sufridas por la configuración de las relaciones espaciales y de la estructura del espacio de la producción editorial. Ahora bien, el comercio del libro es, ante todo, un asunto de territorios, y estos determinan las formas de circulación:...

In his foreword, former New York governor and vice president of the United States Nelson A. Rockefeller remembers his first trip to Mexico in 1933 and his subsequent, life-long fascination with the Mexican people and their popular art. Rockefeller's collection of more than 3,000 pieces of Mexican folk art is widely considered to be the most exceptional in the U.S., and Folk Treasures of Mexico celebrates these icons--created from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries--with more than 150 photos of the pieces, many of which are quite rare. In the main text, Marion Oettinger, Jr., director...