El Guernica

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

Judging from his reaction, it seemed that the question had touched on a sensitive spot. He took his time, explaining that, unlike the petty wars which we as humans constantly involve ourselves in because of social, religious, or economic reasons, the war of sorcerers is not directed against other people, but against their own weaknesses. By the same token, their peace is not the submissive condition to which modern man has been reduced; rather, it is an imperturbable state of internal silence and discipline.

La eterna atraccion de los alemanes hacia lo oscuro e indeterminado, hacia la reflexion especulativa, desemboco en la doctrina apocaliptica del expresionismo. Los hechos exteriores se transforman en elementos internos y se exteriorizan incidentes psiquicos: esta es la atmosfera que encontramos en las peliculas clasicas del cine aleman y, previamente, en el teatro de Max Reinhardt. El presente volumen es un repaso de las tendencias intelectuales, artisticas y tecnicas a las que se sometio el cine aleman a lo largo de los primeros anos de su historia.

Presenciamos hoy a un renacimiento en la valorización del ícono como objeto artístico o devocional y en el mundo son miles las personas que asisten entusiastas a talleres para aprender las técnicas tradicionales de su elaboración. Sin embargo, la historia moderna del ícono es un tema pendiente no solo por la falta de investigaciones específicas, sino por la ausencia de un marco metodológico adecuado para abordar la pregunta fundamental que está detrás de esta pasión contemporánea: ¿Es posible que una tradición antigua perviva dando lugar a una poética del presente, o se trata...