Casas del mundo

"La presente obra constituye una magnífica introducción al funcionamiento del cuerpo humano. Es un libro ilustrado que muestra a los pequeños lectores, de forma amena y atractiva, diversos aspectos relacionados con su organismo. Estas páginas abordan temas relacionados con anatomía: huesos, músculos, órganos, etc. Asimismo nos muestra cómo funcionan y para qué sirven nuestros sentidos. También se ocupa de cuestiones de higiene, prevención, accidentes, enfermedades y salud en general. La autora divide el libro en cinco grandes temas los cuales llevan por título: “Tú y los...

Las nueve maravillosas figuras que componen el mural de La Primavera de Botticelli han sido motivo de diversas y encontradas interpretaciones. El autor nos ofrece en esta edición un análisis sorprendente que relaciona el desfile mitológico del espléndido mural con la política florentina de las dos ramas rivales de los Medici.

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

Featuring 100 fundamental films, this volume explores the legendary figures that have immortalized animation and traces the history of the genre. Listed in chronological order and including dates, comments, and anecdotes, the manual explores animated cinema's origins and its long, complex path in recent decades. With profiles of the 30 most definitive characters in the history of the medium—among them Bugs Bunny, Coraline, and Shrek—this reference follows their journeys and analyzes their lasting impact. Con 100 películas fundamentales, este volumen explora las figuras legendarias que...