30 mandalas para pintar / 30 Mandalas for Painting

Mandalas, concentric designs that originated in ancient India, are growing ever more popular in therapy, meditation, and relaxation exercises. Coloring the mandalas in this book offers more than a mere artistic pastime--working with mandalas helps increase self-knowledge and interior peace.

"El rostro enfermo/The diseased face" invita al lector a mirar algunas grandes obras de la historia del arte de todos los tiempos desde una novedosa perspectiva que le convierte en excepcional testigo de un diálogo entre arte y enfermedad. Los hermanos Isidoro y Florencio Monje Gil estudian cincuenta pinturas con una mirada analítica que valora la aportación artística de cada una de ellas y examina las patologías que padecieron los protagonistas de esos cuadros.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Latino Book Award 2006 - Mejor Diseño Interior (Best Interior Design) Notably influenced by both the colorful character of pop art and the wide spectrum of Colombian local art, the painting and sculpture of Beatriz González explores political, social, and romantic subjects with equal insight. Although she refers to herself as "a provincial painter," González has been recognized in the Colombian fine arts scene for more than four decades. In this complete collection of her work, it becomes clear how her pieces?with their fresh explosions of color and critically viewed subject matter?have...

Esta obra es una reescritura de la Tesis Doctoral del autor (UNED, 1995). En ella se recoge una investigación cuyo objetivo principal es determinar el verdadero estatuto gramatical del artículo, que ya aparece completamente formado en documentos castellanos del siglo X. La Primera Parte es un estudio teórico y práctico sobre la naturaleza y peculiaridades del artículo, su origen y sus formas, sus usos y funciones, así como lo relativo a su presencia o ausencia. Consta esta parte de cuatro capítulos. En la Segunda Parte, la más extensa y también la más descriptiva y diacrónica, se...