El niño estrella

Frida Kahlo (1907-1945) is one of the most important 20th-century painters and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputain. In the vibrant colors of her native Mexico, she expressed the burdens that weighed upon her soul.

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

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 entrevista, viejo juego de poder y seduccion, lugar de la voz autorizada, de la autoria y el desvelamiento. Su despliegue no tiene fin: de la politica a la actualidad, del arte o la ciencia a una etica de las costumbres, a una educacion sentimental. Este libro demuestra que, escena emblematica de la comunicacion, resguardo de la autenticidad, sosten de la creencia y de la identidad, la entrevista hace evidente la tension irresoluble entre el afan de la interrogacion y la imposible captura del sentido.