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Un pequeño relato de misterio e intriga para un corto paseo o digno de contribuir en una noche de insomnio en la madrugada.

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

En esta nueva entrega de Varia Nummorum, serie que comenzó en el ya un tanto lejano año 2012, seguimos con el propósito de ofrecer al lector novedades y estudios (en este volumen un total de 43) en torno a la numismática antigua, preferentemente (y casi de manera exclusiva) de los siglos II a.C. al siglo I d.C.