El cine de Carlos Fuentes

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

A través de unos 100 dibujos de la colección del Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres, se ilustra la amplia gama de materiales y medios de que dispone el artista para dibujar, mostrando los diferentes papeles que puede tener el dibujo como obra de arte en sí misma, como medio para ejercitar la visión o como soporte de diseños y obras de arte realizadas con otros materiales.

This important work of history tells the story of the aviation pioneers who devoted their lives, and often their fortunes, to the evolution of the aeroplane as it exists today. As early as November 1809 Sir George Cayley published a masterly essay practically inventing the aeroplane. It lay forgotten for 62 years, until found by Alphonse Pénaud. In August 1871 Pénaud flew his Planophore, the first model to resemble a modern aeroplane. He had discovered the secret of inherent longitudinal stability. The first flying machine built by Clément Ader, in 1889, was the Eole. Powered by a steam...

Los colores de las vidrieras de las grandes catedrales góticas europeas han sido captadas con gran belleza y detalle por los fotógrafos que han colaborado en este libro. La magnífica documentación fotográfica se complementa con la descripción de dos de los monumentos más significativos de cada país, descritos por expertos europeos en arte, miembros de la asociación de especialistas en vidrieras medievales CVMA (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi).