El arte gótico

"It deals witb a distinguished career which led the Colombian artist from her early stage of "windows" and "doors" to a series of "atmospheres"--In which she seems to leap through the frames of her earlier paintings to find herself before the light that is on the other side and was merely hinted at before. The white canvases of her "atmospheres" - luminous, sparkling and full of matter - in turn fulfill their cycle, opening the way for a further stage which is marked by the recuperatian of the object and a new and fresh approach to nature.

Architecte et designer barcelonais, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) occupe une large place dans l’histoire de l’art espagnol. L’usage de la couleur, l’emploi de différents matériaux et l’introduction du mouvement dans ses constructions furent une innovation dans le domaine de l’architecture. Il laissa dans ses carnets de nombreuses réflexions à propos de son art telles que : « La couleur dans l’architecture doit être intense, logique et fertile. » Appuyée par de nombreuses photographies et de nombreux détails architecturaux, l’étude que mène l’auteur, Jeremy Roe, permet ...

Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) and Manuel Manilla (ca. 1830-1895) are the greatest exponents of Mexican popular engraving. For decades they illustrated thousands of printed matter of various kinds. Among his numerous works are the engravings for one hundred and eighty stories dedicated to children. The book in question is a compendium of the representative sample of the best works of these engravers, whose work places them as the pioneers of the illustration of Mexican children's stories. It is divided in small chapters that classify and reunite the engravings and stories of the stories...

Neste libro percórrese a historia da lingua galega desde as súas orixes até os tempos actuais, sen perder de vista a súa estreita relación co portugués. Este camiño mostra o que se falaba na Galecia antes da chegada dos Romanos, ben como o paso do latín para o galegoportugués --coa gramática histórica--, os tempos gloriosos da Idade Media, a decadencia do galego e o seu posterior rexurdimento, até chegarmos aos tempos actuais. Todo iso vén acompañado da clasificación xeolectal do galego actual, ben como unha abordaxe da realidade sociolingüística do idioma, afrontando a...