La Dolce Vita

"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.

Investigación científica sobre la configuración de la empresa informativa en cuanto integradora de diferentes empresas de medios de comunicación, y se analiza conceptualmente el mercado de la información.

Ariel Pérez Rodríguez (Santa Clara, Cuba, 1976). Casi doscientos años después del nacimiento de Jules Verne, aún quedan textos inéditos del autor en castellano. En esta compilación se presentan tres de ellos. El primero, Viaje de estudios, es el último de los textos en los que Verne trabajaba antes de morir y que luego sirvió a su hijo Michel para crear, a nombre de su padre, La asombrosa aventura de la misión Barsac. El segundo de ellos presenta a un Verne que aprovecha el complicado panorama político acaecido durante la oleada revolucionaria europea del siglo XIX y en particular...

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...