Técnicas y materiales del arte

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...

En este volumen se reúnen dieciséis estudios de especialistas en documentos y manuscritos árabes de seis países diferentes de Europa y el Magreb. Tiene el propósito de presentar diferentes aproximaciones a un objeto de estudio tan delimitado, por un lado, por otro, tan abierto y tan inconcluso como es el de los documentos y manuscritos árabes del Occidente musulmán medieval.

Este libro reúne el trabajo de los profesores que, tras analizar detalladamente diez películas (dentro de un abanico de temas y géneros cinematográficos), han elaborado una serie de actividades didácticas de gran utilidad para los profesores y para cualquier persona que tenga encomendadas tareas educativas, en sentido amplio. Estas propuestas pueden servir de orientación para el diseño de otras actividades que se adecuen las necesidades concretas de los destinatarios.

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.