by rgonzalezr
Publisher:Beaux arts magazine Location:Paris Subject:Art, modern Publication Date:2002 Illustrations:Yes Pages:240 p.
Categories: Arte, Revistas • Tags: Art, Beaux Art, Contemporary art
by rgonzalezr
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean’s extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British […]
Categories: Biografía, Guerra, Historia • Tags: Fitzroy Maclean, History, james bond, spy, the real james bond, war
by rgonzalezr
It’s as if contemporary culture has developed a case of hyperacusis in the form of Toop’s ‘perpetual vigilance’ as he haunts the permeable boundary between the extremities of sound and the fullness of silence. Ruminating on its unmatched power of evocation, Toop manifests sound after transient sound from the pages of this ‘silent art’, increasing awareness of our own auditory acuity as the walls between inner and outer space collapse around our ears. - David Sylvian For starters, Toop hauls out […]
Categories: Ensayo, Música • Tags: 2011, continuum, David Topp, listening, Mediumship, music, Resonance, sonic, sound, The Wire
by rgonzalezr
Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, “a moment’s monument.” From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts. The Art of […]
Categories: Arte, Ensayo, Poesía • Tags: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Poetry, Sonnets
by rgonzalezr
In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Empty Family offers a fascinating exploration of famous writers’ relationships to their families and their work. From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature’s greatest works. In New Ways to Kill Your Mother, Colm ToibÍn—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the prestigious […]
Categories: Biografía, Ensayo • Tags: Colm Toibin, penguin, viking, writer's biographies
by rgonzalezr
No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the true architects of No Wave from James Chance to Lydia Lunch to Glenn Branca, as well as the luminaries that intersected the scene, such as David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, […]
Categories: Arte, Fotografía, Historia, Ilustrado, Música • Tags: 70s, 80s, avant garde, David Byrne, New York, No Wave, Nueva York, NY, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore
by rgonzalezr
First Person: Donald Takayama, By Scott Hulet, Remember the Future, By Richard Kenvin, B-Roll, Greg Weaver Photography 1969-1971, As Told to Scott Hulet, Turning Faroese, Story and Photos by Yassine Ouhilal, Nature Boys, By Tommy Leitch, More Side Orders, By Kimo Hollinger, Anchored, An Intergenerational Surf Trip, Photography by Jeff Hornbaker Volume 17 NO. 6 – Winter ’08
Categories: Deportes, Revistas, Surf • Tags: Surf, Surfer's Journal
by rgonzalezr
A Semi Search for Nowness: Ceylon, Paris, and Morocco by Thomas Campbell and Dan Malloy, Call Them All: Data Gathering for Surfing’s Ultimate Encyclopedia by Nathan Myers, The Camel Concept by Yasha Hetzel, 25 Years Past Deadline by Kevin Naughton, Same Old Glimpse of Paradise: Bali Expat Tim Watts by Leonard Lueras, All Access: Joel Tudor and Michael Halsband’s Surf Book by Scott Hulet, Complementary Lines: The Beachfront Sculptures of Andy Neumann by Craig Angell. Plus… Velzyland beatdowns, Salvadoran orphans, a photo portfolio from the 20-somethings, an inside look at the Greenmount Superbank.Volume 12 NO. 4 – […]
Categories: Deportes, Revistas, Surf • Tags: Revistas, Surf, Surfer's Journal
by rgonzalezr
Handsome and serious yet accessible, this book catalogs an extensive exhibition held at the Royal Museum Brussels. It covers the full spectrum of Magritte’s work, from the omnipresent, mass-reproduced images to the more difficult and lesser-known photography and commercial poster work he did. The shortish essays, by Belgian curators and other acknowledged authorities (including David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield), are clear; a personal contribution by the artist’s friend Harry Torczyner is helpful in understanding Magritte the man. All in all, […]
Categories: Arte, Biografía • Tags: Art, Arte, Belgica, Belgium, Magritte, todo magritte
by rgonzalezr
Era mejor antes. Los niños eran más educados y cultivados.Había mejores lectores. Todo el mundo era más hermoso Lucien Jerphagnon se sumerge en la lectura de casi treinta siglos y bucea en una arraigada tradición de recelo hacia los tiempos venideros.Una selección de los más bellos textos del pesimismo universal. Estupendas joyas literarias llenas de desengaño que escribieron griegos, latinos, hombres de letras del medievo, renacentistas e incluso contemporáneos. Elogio del pesimismo nos ilumina mostrando la oscuridad; nos eleva el […]
Categories: Antología, Ensayo • Tags: Barril & Barral, Pesimismo
by rgonzalezr
A pesar del creciente número de cómics y novelas gráficas al alcance de los lectores, el número de ensayos sobre el medio es increíblemente escaso. En este libro, sin embargo, Scott McCloud nos muestra que el cómic se merece sobradamente un estudio en profundidad. Entender el cómic: El arte invisible está considerado como la obra definitiva sobre la teoría del cómic como forma artística y medio de comunicación. Explora, la definición de “cómic”, el desarrollo histórico del medio, su vocabulario […]
Categories: Comics, Ensayo • Tags: Astiberri, Comic, Comics, Entender el cómic
by rgonzalezr
Aritmética ilustrada no es un libro de matemáticas, sino uno de ilustraciones sobre problemas matemáticos extraídos de viejos libros de texto publicados a lo largo de casi 100 años, desde 1860 a 1957, que presenta una muy cuidada edición. Juan Berrio se sirve de su elegante trazo para acercarse a ellos como a un ejercicio, un divertimento o un reto. Hay en él anécdotas banales, pero también pequeños dramas cotidianos, auténticas historias de un tiempo ya pasado que ha considerado […]
Categories: Ilustrado, Infantil, Matematicas • Tags: Astiberri, Ilustrado, Matemáticas, problemas de aritmética
by rgonzalezr
Abades (Prix Décembre 2002) es una magnífica obra de uno de los mejores escritor europeos. Después de la excelente acogida de Mitologías de invierno / El emperador de Occidente (elegido por EL PAÍS entre los 10 mejores libros publicados en España en 2009), Ediciones Alfabia sigue apostando por Pierre Michon y su prosa para conocedores de la buena literatura –de la literatura verdaderamente grande, exigente, que busca la posteridad– y compila en un volumen estos dos auténticos milagros de la narrativa contemporánea. Las cuestiones de […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Alfabia, Francesa, mejores novelas, Novela
by rgonzalezr
Picasso‘s portraits display an astonishing range of moods, styles, personalities and approaches, whether abstract, surreal, cubist, classical or expressionist, as revealed by this resplendently illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art. In the opening essay, Rubin, director emeritus of MOMA’s painting and sculpture department, explores how Picasso’s portraits served as a screen for his psychological projections and symbolic references to members of his ever-changing entourage. Eight essays by noted critics, including Pierre Daix, Robert Rosenblum, Brigitte […]
by rgonzalezr
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn’t America dominate the sport internationally…and why do the Germans play with such an efficientbut robotic style?These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers them. Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup, Soccernomics is a new way of looking at the world’s most […]
Categories: Deportes, Soccer • Tags: Soccer, soccernomics, statistics
