La fiesta barroca. El Reino de Valencia (1599-1802)

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...

Libro que reúne lo mejor de los escritos de Andrés Caicedo sobre cine, muchos de estos publicados en Ojo al cine, la revista que él mismo fundó en los años setenta.

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La distancia entre la obra de arte y quien la percibe a veces parece infranqueable por que la comprensión de lo que la obra puede querer transmitir como mensaje no resulta fácil. Tradicionalmente, la obra de arte se ha apoyado en los relatos o manifiestos que la legitimen socialmente, especies de normas que le permitan ser consideradas efectivamente como obras artísticas. El relato legitimador imperante históricamente fue la mimesis, justificante que ha permitido representar artificiosamente lo que la naturaleza facilita como modelo. A partir de la crisis del manifiesto mimético y la...