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La relación establecida en los siglos XV y XVI entre el poder y el arte no fue algo monolítico y homogéneo, ni los Trastámara fueron los primeros en mostrar interés artístico, pero quizá sí lo fueron en evidenciar una «especial relación» con el arte, ya una relación cambiante al final de la Edad Media, iniciando unos comportamientos que serán heredados, matizados y «sublimados» por los Reyes Católicos y amplificados por la labor de promoción artística de sus prelados y nobles. El arte se convierte en signo de distinción social con un componente devocional, asistencial o...

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...

En este libro la autora pretende dar cuenta detallada de una de las creaciones literarias mas interesantes del siglo XV espanol: la Historia de Grisel y Mirabella, ficcion sentimental escrita por Juan de Flores y a la que don Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo califico de "curiosa" y "absurda."

"A selection of highlights of Mexico's artistic heritage from the 16th-20th century is illustrated by beautiful color plates in this alphabetically arranged catalog of Mexican painters, architects, photographers, and decorative arts. Personal statements or erudite observations about the artists precede biographical summaries. With a prologue by Octavio Paz and texts by accomplished academics, this survey, the first in a set of three volumes, is a visual and intellectual celebration of Mexico's continuing artistic achievements"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.