Notas a Apocalypse Now. Crónica de un rodaje maldito.

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

El debate sobre la abolición de las corridas de toros ha vuelto a poner de actualidad una vieja polémica: ¿es un espectáculo cruel y brutal, residuo de lo peor de nuestro pasado, o es una manifestación artística de nuestras raíces hispanas? El núcleo de la discusión es sin duda de carácter ético. Quienes piden que se prohíba la fiesta taurina no lo hacen por razones estéticas ni dudan de que sea una tradición, sino que cuestionan su moralidad. A fin de cuentas, es una cuestión filosófica, que se aleja de lo folklórico o sentimental. En esta cuestión se centra este libro. No...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

una colección de más de 40 dibujos humorísticos del renombrado artista José Luis Díaz de Villegas. Desde la política a la muerte, pasando por la ciencia, la religión y la vanidad, Díaz de Villegas mira la condición humana con partes iguales de cinismo y compasión.