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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 reúne los textos sobre arte que Augusto d’Halmar publicó en diversos diarios y revistas entre 1900 y 1950. Son críticas, estudios, crónicas y recuerdos de un período marcado por la complicidad entre artistas y escritores. En su conjunto construyen una historia personal de la escena artística de la época y dan cuenta de la activa participación de d’Halmar en el desarrollo cultural del país, no sólo como escritor, testigo y crítico de arte, sino como articulador de movimientos artísticos. Esta es una aproximación al pasado, que nos permite reflexionar, entre otras...

Este volumen, el tercero de las Obras reunidas de Carlos fuentes, representa el mundo imaginativo y ficcional del escritor, que explora las regiones de lo misterioso, lo m tico y secreto, crea ambientes de suspenso y horror abordando temas como el laberinto entre el sue o y la realidad, el misterio del tiempo, la vejez, la trascendencia, la reencarnaci n, lo vamp rico, lo sobrenatural, el arte y el amor. Su narrativa deja ver, adem s, ese af n totalizador al retratar aspectos de la actualidad pol tica, econ mica y cultural, mediante referencias hist ricas precisas, alusiones a personajes...

Thomas Fundora - Painter, Poet and Famous Songwriter Tomas Fundora was a Renaissance man of the 90's: Poet, Composer and song's Lyricist. Artist Extraordinaire -Born in Havana, Cuba-, Fundora studied art in Europe and his unique style reflects international culture and elegance. A graduate of TUR and Candler College with a major in Art and Literature, Fundora studied Modern Art at San Alejandro in Cuba and attended special courses in Art Restoration at the School of Art in Bologna, Italy, with additional courses at Washington School of Art, Art Students League in New York and also with...