With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists championed the unconscious as the domain of truth, uninhibited by the standards or expectations of society. With techniques ranging from hypnotism to nocturnal walks to automatic writing, the likes of André Breton, Max Ernst, Brassaï, and Meret Oppenheim produced paintings, drawings, texts, and films in which they sought to excavate their most intimate and primal ... |
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From the towering Sagrada Família to the shimmering, textured façade of Casa Batlló and the enchanting landscape of Park Güell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder of natural creation: columns soar like tree trunks, window frames curve like flowering branches, and ceramic tiling shimmers like scaly, reptilian skin. Window frames curve like flowering branches and ceramic tiling shimmers like reptilian skin in the fervent architectural imagination of Antoni ... |
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Frida Kahlo transcended art history like no woman artist before her. She was a key figure of Mexican revolutionary modern art and a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism. This monograph combines Kahlo’s paintings with rare photos, diary pages, and an illustrated biography. Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Manuel and Lola ... |
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Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and Martin Munkácsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th century art. After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929 placed her at the forefront of an artistic ... |
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"El presente estudio monográfico refleja con claridad didáctica la ordenada amplitud de la visión renovadora y el saber empírico de la autora, adquiridos por vías seguras -aunque en diferentes regímenes-, y aplicados, ahora, en busca de claves por los problemas complejos de Hispanoamérica. Los fenómenos políticos y económicos, sin hacer caso omiso de sus protagonistas, se instalan y analizan, sistemáticamente, en las tres partes de la obra en tensa actividad cambiante, conforme los principios, ya clásicos, de preservar la relación de permanencia y ... |
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"Златното" поколение български оперни артисти от втората половина на ХХ в. има своя очарователен Фигаро, забележителен Онегин и още много роли, в които баритонът Асен Селимски и до днес е неповторим! Допълваме поредицата "Прочути оперни гласове на България" с негови записи, реализирани между 1961 г. и 1971 г. Те са великолепно продължение на колекцията със записи на Димитър Узунов, Юлия Винер-Ченишева и Любомир Бодуров. Асен Селимски е роден през 1930 г. Завършва Музикалната академия като ученик на знаменития вокален педагог проф. Христо Бръмбаров. От дебюта си на оперна сцена през 1955 г. до края ... |