El libro de los acentos

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

Esta obra es la imagen de la vida academica que hoy en dia se desarrolla en el Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios, y es tambien un reflejo de como se sigue proyectando su pasado, en un permanente intercambio intelectual que confluye en nuestra produccion.

El 9 de abril de 1948, en la esquina de la avenida Jiménez con carrera séptima en Bogotá, cae herido de muerte el líder liberal Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. En ese momento la turba enfurecida arrastra por las calles el cadáver de Roa Sierra destrozado a punta de golpes de palos y varillas. Y en cuestión de horas, el centro de Bogotá es un infierno. Años después, un grupo de teatro universitario en la década de los 70 va a recrear estos hechos. 1948 hace una lectura crítica, desde nuevas perspectivas ideológicas y artísticas, de la historia nacional. A través de -una obra dentro de una ...

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.