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En 1919, Walter Gropius fundó en Weimar (Alemania) la Staatliche Bauhaus: un lugar para la construcción. El proyecto nació como una escuela utópica en la que formar, integrando diversas disciplinas artísticas a través del objeto y la arquitectura, a los nuevos artesanos que se demandarían para un principio de siglo arrollador. Una idea que evolucionaría hacía el diseño a partir de su sede en Dessau con el célebre "arte y teconología: una nueva unidad". Apostaron por una comprensión social y funcional del arte, a través de un profundo compromiso ético y estético que hacía...

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

La obra compila reflexiones sobre la envidia entre mujeres, entre padres e hijos, entre colegas y amigos, entre jóvenes y viejos, pobres y ricos, hombres y mujeres, entre actrices, modelos, amantes y entre perfectos desconocidos. Esto confirma el amplio espectro de una pasión triste que es capaz de atravesar todo tipo de registros de la condición humana, transformándose en poderosos afectos como el resentimiento, la codicia, el rencor, el odio, la tristeza y la alegría malsana, lo cual es analizado por los autores de estos ensayos de cine y filosofía a través de la mirada...