La Princesa Lucia

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Figura imprescindible del «entertainment» estadounidense del siglo xx, Jerry Lewis (1926) ha trabajado en Hollywood como actor, guionista, director y productor. Además, de forma paralela ha sido cantante, humorista, empresario de exhibición cinematográfica y de hostelería, actor teatral, estrella de la televisión, personaje de cómic, presentador de maratones benéficos y filántropo. Este libro analiza su trayectoria como cineasta y aspira a colocarlo en el lugar (justo) que le corresponde en el doble ámbito del análisis fílmico y de la historia del cine, atendiendo a su innegable...

El mas grande de los virtuosos del violoncello, Pau Casals 1976 1973. ha acabado convirtiendose en un verdadero icono cultural del siglo XX, y su nombre sigue vivo entre nosotros mucho mas que el de ningun otro genio contemporaneo de la musica, llamese Rubinstein, Horowitz, Heifetz o Kreisler: en festivales de musica de dos continentes, en museos de tres paises, en salas de conciertos, grabaciones, concursos... Casals tuvo una vida intensa, en todos los sentidos. Vivio casi noventa y siete anos, revoluciono todas las tecnicas del violoncello, transformandolo en un instrumento solista...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...