Paul Cezanne

Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on 20th-century art. Color reproductions of Picasso's masterpieces are...

El libro lleva a cabo un análisis comparativo entre los escritores Christopher Isherwood y Andrés Carranque de Ríos a través de sus dos obras esenciales: Goodbye to Berlin (1935) y La vida difícil (1935) respectivamente. Estas dos obras esenciales, aunque situadas en dos tradiciones culturales distintas, coinciden y representan a una década con una doble misión histórica, una, la que representa al arte más propio del siglo XX a través la experimentación literaria y artística y otra, en la que nos hace sentir los grandes progresos sociales y humanos de la misma. La labor de...

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...

Este libro recoge 9.421 palabras, las más frecuentes en Psiquiatría, Psicopatología y Psicología clínica. Pero no es un diccionario al uso para conocer el significado de las palabras. El diccionario intenta solamente señalar cuáles son las palabras correctas para cada ocasión. Tiene como objetivo ayudar al escritor o al traductor a elegir las palabras adecuadas para escribir con corrección sin caer en vulgarismos ni en barbarismos. El diccionario está dirigido a médicos, psicólogos y personal educativo y sanitario. También a traductores y estudiantes de Medicina, Psicología y...

This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are new sections on corpus linguistics and on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, an expanded chapter on the study of...