Gego, 1955-1990

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

Un recopilatorio de maravillosas obras de arte de autores como Dalí, Tàpies, Picasso, Casas o Rusiñol y una apasionante investigación sobre las mujeres que inspiraron a estos grandes artistas. El artista siempre parte de la realidad para crear algo que la transciende, algo mágico que llamamos arte y a cuyo aliento críticos, especialistas, curiosos y aficionados escriben, investigan, reflexionan y sienten. Lejos queda el origen, la chispa que lo originó, tal vez el incendio. La cultura clásica posee una deidad específica para representar eso, que solemos llamar inspiración: las...

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it’s fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here. Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert’s third collection of essays on the crème de la crème of...

An illustrated collection of horror tales by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Black Cat" translated into Spanish.