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Una fábula futurista de un tiempo no lejano, donde el mundo corre hacia su final, víctima de los excesos de los hombres. Una moraleja estremecedora y conmovedora, que nos hará replantearnos nuestro modo de vida.El mundo se acaba. El cielo del color del óxido lanza lluvia ácida hacia ciudades cubiertas incapaces de comunicarse entre sí. Peter vive en Madrid, una de las pocas grandes ciudades que han sobrevivido a una serie de desastres naturales y guerras. Su novia es secuestrada y se enfrenta sólo a los secuestradores, a una organización criminal y a la ira de su suegro, el alcalde de Madrid. En su búsqueda se dirige a Zaragoza y Huesca, territorios degradados por la naturaleza, con la única ayuda de su amigo Pol, con el que sólo se comunica en sueños. Pol vive en el pasado, recién salido de un cataclismo similar al que se avecina a su amigo Peter. Es el único con acceso al exterior de la cueva, donde su tribu vive bajo el yugo de poder de los ancianos, que se oponen a salir al exterio

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Tras seducirnos con el relato de la trepidante carrera por la conquista del Polo Sur protagonizada en 1911 por Roald Amundsen y Robert F. Scott, y conmovernos con la historia de las hazañas y derrotas en la Antártida de Ernest Shackleton, Javier Cacho nos invita a conocer la intensa vida del maestro de la exploración polar Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). De porte atlético y distinguido, Nansen fue un magnífico jinete, experto esquiador y mejor cazador; hombre culto y buen conversador que hablaba varios idiomas, su cordialidad, su personalidad y sus dotes de buen orador causaron sensación. Idealista y soñador, como explorador Nansen revolucionó la técnica de los viajes polares y, con independencia de sus logros, se convirtió en la autoridad indiscutible en esa materia, a quien todos acudían en busca de consejo.

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Carlos Bunga's sculptural and painterly structures propose architecture as body and mindscape. Using only cardboard and paint, Bunga creates fantastical buildings, furniture-like sculptures and paintings as immersive environments. This book surveys his actions and performances, and documents over a decade of installations. Enacting cycles of construction and destruction, Bunga explores states of dispossession and nomadism; the nature of spatial experience; and the creative and symbolic potential of ruin. With essays by Iwona Blazwick, Carlos Bunga, Nuno Faria, Inês Grosso and Antony Hudek.

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A guide to the best in architecture and building design in the fabulous city of Barcelona - famed throughout the world for its rich architectural heritage. It features hundreds of full-colour photographs, maps, and plans, allowing readers to discover examples of the world's finest architecture - all in a single city - and at their own pace.

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the 20th century. This title collects some of the most important works by Gauguin.

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Marcel Lí Antúnez Roca (Moià, Barcelona, 1959) is internationally renowned for his mechatronic performances and interactive installations. From his earliest days, as founder of the theatre company La Fura dels Baus in 1979, Marcel Lí has assembled his own special universe of interests, to which he has contributed (among other things) his interest in Outsider Art, the trends of the 1960s, technology, science, comics and popular traditions. This personal universe is completed by his embracing of particular aspects of the human experience such as food, sex and death. For over two decades, the performance art that lies at the heart of Marcel Lí''s work has been immersed in digital technology. During this time, he has developed a working procedure he has dubbed ''Systematurgy''; a practice that is characterised by the concept of user participation. This book explains the concept of Systematurgy through a first-person narrative that also offers us an insight into the genesis and form of p

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For more than two centuries we have heard, again and again, in a most persistent manner, and in many different contexts and situations, that art is dead. We have heard that artistic experience has been overcome or permanently suspended from history. It is said that what began, strictly speaking, with the arrival of the Renaissance has ceased to occupy a significant place within our cultural landscapes. In the field of theory and artistic thought, those who have pondered on or delivered such mortuary statements are countless: from Hegel to Arthur Danto. Despite all this, art resists and persists, time and time again. In the face of every death certificate, art restructures its own parameters to generate a prospect of sense, both internal and external, strong enough to continue to be operational. This fortitude is shaped by proposals from a selection of contemporary artists: Rita Ackermann, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Creed, Subodh Gupta, Thomas Houseago, Paul McCarthy, Dieter Roth, Mira

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Recognised as one of the most important artists of his generation, Gary Hill (b 1951, Santa Monica, California) has been at the cutting-edge of video, sound, and mixed-media art since the early 1970s. Originally a sculptor, Hill was influenced by the intellectual orientation of the conceptual art which dominated the scene in the 1970s.

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The Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller + Scofidio (now Diller Scofidio + Renfro), was the first new art museum to be built in Boston in a century. Opened in December 2006, the ICA is located on a small parcel of land on Boston Harbor and this is the 25th location for the museum in its 75 year history and its first, permanent, free-standing home. "The ICA's decision to hire Diller + Scofidio reflected our belief in the firm's vision that architecture can shape as well as reflect contemporary experience," stated Jill Medvedow, director of ICA. The architects balanced use of cool and transparent glass with the warmth of wood and the energy of light, as well as their design of spare, flexible spaces for presenting contemporary art, was a revelation for a city and an architectural community. ''Their brilliant and beautiful design of the ICA was a harbinger of change: edgy, bold and breathtaking, transforming the landscape for contemporary art and culture in Boston and for the artists, art and ideas of our time," Medvedow has said. ILLUSTRATIONS Colour

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El complot que en 1565 urdió en México Martín Cortés, hijo de Hernán Cortés, es solo uno de los avatares de la tensión que estalló entre la corona castellana y sus territorios de ultramar en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. En lugar de reducirse a un careo entre españoles e indios, la conquista borró todas las desavenencias, generando precozmente una conciencia política criolla. Para comprender las aspiraciones de esos españoles de las Indias, el presente libro muestra la amplitud que alcanzaron sus desobediencias a la península entre los años 1540 y 1580. Asimismo, se adentra en el desarrollo de los grandes procesos políticos conservados en los archivos americanos y peninsulares, por donde pululan personajes extraordinarios y afluyen historias vitales rocambolescas. La monarquía de las Indias aparece aquí lejos de constituir un sólido imperio colonial.A través de una meticulosa radiografía del mundo que heredan los hijos de los conquistadores, salen a relucir la miseria de los emig

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La sexta entrega del diario más tronchante y desternillante, Diario de Greg. Un auténtico fenómeno mundial.Greg Heffley está en apuros. Alguien ha causado desperfectos en el cole, y Greg es el principal sospechoso. Aunque, por una vez, es inocente... o algo parecido.Parece que la policía anda tras la pista de Greg, pero una tormenta de nieve inesperada deja encerrada a la familia Heffley en casa. Greg sabe que cuando la nieve se derrita le tocará dar explicaciones, pero... hay algún castigo peor que quedarse atrapado en casa con la familia en vacaciones?Reseñas:El humor llega de la mano de Greg, con su hilarante (y lúcida) crítica del mundo de los mayores.La VanguardiaDiario de Greg amenaza con conquistar el mundo.Time magazineUna de las series infantiles de mayor éxito de todos los tiempos.Washington PostUna novela bastante ilustrada, una mezcla muy divertida que se devora en poco más de una hora y que está ca

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El presente texto ofrece un amplio recorrido por el trabajo de Douglas Crimp, uno de los protagonistas de la redefinición de la función de la crítica en la cultura norteamericana y en la defensa de la dimensión pública del arte.

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Obra de Aristóteles en la que analiza las diferentes clases de dominación, distinguiendo de entre ellas la claramente política, así como los diversos regímenes políticos, y en la que propone su modelo de ciudad ideal.

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Determining the authorship and originality of artistic works is essential for fully enjoying art, and for the correct functioning of the market and many cultural centres. It is one of the tasks falling not only to institutions but also to artists' foundations, museums, public administrations, academics, gallery owners and art collectors. All those involved with this part of the artistic world encounter problems. This book, derived from an international seminar organised by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation shares the knowledge, experience and opinions of some of the most prestigious experts on these subjects. Furthermore, it provides some new angles, proposals and linguistic elements that can help to understand the difficulties presented by the topic and to improve its legal regulation.

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The hypersensitivity Usle describes is a kind of visionary state, but it is one that is painful - and memorable precisely because it is painful. When we see certain paintings of Usle's that use bright, intense, searing colours, shouldn't we think of this early encounter with one of those states of being that suddenly and dramatically remove us from our everyday mode of perception - one of those events that teach us that everything we perceive might be perceived entirely differently, given even a small modification of the perceptual apparatus we normally take for granted? There are certain paintings by Usle, very complicated ones, that might well remind us of the experience of peering into a kaleidoscope, and while this is not to say that we are therefore to imagine that we should also find the sight of these paintings painful - far from it! no more than, not having suffered sunstroke, we would find looking through a kaleidoscope painful - it is helpful to be reminded that such experiences, in which there is a visual clamour beyond what we are used to being subject to, may not be easy or comfortable ones, and therefore they are only a step away, albeit a crucial step, from being painful. They are a little too much, and therefore they put pressure on our aesthetic expectations. This is Usle's pictorial equivalent of Rimbaud's famous "dereglement de tous les sens."

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This is a lavishly illustrated overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project in Spain. This superbly illustrated volume provides readers with an engaging and insightful overview of the groundbreaking Domino Canibal project. Held at a single venue over a 12-month period (Jan-Dec 2010), Domino Canibal allowed successive artists - including Jimmie Durham, Cristina Lucas, Tania Bruguera, and Francis Alys - to create new and original works by reinterpreting, demolishing, appropriating, and canibalising the work of preceding artists, creating a dynamic artistic process not normally found among other, more established forms of exhibition.

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Very few paintings, less than forty n all, can be attributed with certainty to Vermeer, but each one is a perfectly achieved study of light, colour and space. For all his profound originality, Vermeer is very much a part of the Dutch tradition, combining realism and sobriety with a skilful rendering of perspective and optical effects. In this book you will find high quality reproductions of these paintings, each with an explanation and an essay about Vermeer's universe and discoveries. ILLUSTRATIONS 50 images *

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Presentamos el noveno volumen de las obras completas de Leonardo Polo. Se trata de la recopilación de una colección de publicaciones menores: artículos de revistas, capítulos de libros, prólogos, etc. En concreto la colección abarca las publicaciones de los años comprendidos entre 1951 y 1990: los primeros cuarenta años en la vida profesionoal y académica de Polo, que incluyen veintiocho desde su doctorado en filosofía (1961).Leonardo Polo (Madrid, 1926-Pamplona 2013) se licenció en Derecho (1949); posteriormente realizó la licenciatura y el doctorado en Filosofía. Se incorporó a la Universidad de Navarra en 1954. Obtuvo la cátedra de Fundamentos de Filosofía de la Universidad de Granada en 1966, que ocupó dos años. El resto de su vida académica lo pasó en Navarra, excepto los veranos, en los que impartía cursos de licenciatura y doctorado en universidades de México, Perú, Colombia, Chile, etc. Desempeñó diversos cargos, como director de estudios de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

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El principal debate contemporáneo -la relación entre ética, política y religión- analizado por el filósofo católico más importante de nuestro tiempo.

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Esta obra actualizada y adaptada a la nueva legislación (LOE) desarrolla los contenidos del módulo profesional de Políticas de Marketing, común a los Ciclos Formativos de grado superior correspondientes a los títulos de Técnico Superior en Gestión de Ventas y Espacios Comerciales y de Técnico Superior en Marketing y Publicidad, pertenecientes a la familia profesional de Comercio y Marketing, desde una perspectiva eminentemente práctica. Políticas de marketing se inicia con un análisis del entorno y la competencia desde un sentido amplio, para ir adentrándose a medida que se avanza con las Unidades en un análisis más exhaustivo de las diferentes variables de marketing mix. Finaliza el libro con el plan de marketing, momento en el que se ofrece una visión de conjunto de todo lo aprendido. Cada una de las doce Unidades en las que se divide el libro se acompaña de numerosas actividades propuestas, resueltas, lecturas sobre casos reales y elementos gráficos para facilitar la comprensión del

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" Novela sin ficción " , como el autor chileno la ha definido en alguna ocasión, constituye un ejercicio de subjetividad basado en experiencias personales, que se manifiestan en un documento " realista " bajo el tamiz de la subjetividad y bajo un ropaje narrativo que, alimentado por la primera persona, imprime una sensación de ficcionalidad, propia de la trama novelesca. Polémico y sincero, el trabajo del chileno es uno de los iconos de la época del " boom " .Esta edición, la primera con un estudio crítico, una corrección completa de variantes y erratas y un elenco de notas a pie de página que aportan aclaraciones relacionadas con hechos históricos, personajes, datos literarios, técnicos, etc., además de las que el autor ha ido añadiendo en sucesivas ediciones, ofrece un nuevo prólogo de Jorge Edwards que cobra una especial relevancia por lo que en el contexto político actual significa una nueva concepción de las relaciones entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos.

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Una nueva fórmula para comprender la historia a través de su de su desarrollo político, social, económico, bélico y cultural. Las claves de este desarrollo se encuentran en todo momento contrastadas con su nuevo marco geográfico gracias a un abundante material (mapas a todo color, planos, diagramas, etc.) que hace posible la fácil síntesis de los datos ordenados cronológicamente en el texto.Con más de veinte ediciones corregidas y aumentadas al hilo de los nuevos acontecimientos, el atlas histórico de Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann y Manfred Hergt sigue siendo, hoy en día, la mejor y más completa herramienta de trabajo para el estudiante o el profesional de las humanidades. Enriquecida con numerosas ampliaciones relativas a la historia de la península Ibérica y del continente americano, la presente edición está revisada y aumentada hasta el año 2005.

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The public works of Eduardo Chillida, present in numerous cities in the world, figure among the most intense and telling creations of contemporary monumental-scale sculpture. In most cases, these works involve architectural, urban or landscape aspects, and the problem that the artist must face is the organisation of the works in the space, whether in relation to the external environment in which the work is placed - as in Wind Combs, in struggle with the aggressive Cantabrian Sea; in the idyllic peace of the Gure Aitaren Etxea (House of our Fathers), in Guernica; or in the Eulogy to the Horizon, in Gijón, or to interior space, closed and sometimes hermetic, which for the artist has a value that is both stimulating and creative. Throughout his essay, Giovanni Carandente analyses, in addition to the artistic, stylistic and environmental aspects, the profound ethical implications of Chillida's work; from steles dedicated to intellectuals, thinkers and friends, to tributes in recognition of poets and artists - from Goethe and Khayyam to Hokusai and Miró. With photographs by David Finn.

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This book explains Giacometti's purpose: to exorcise an existential void through his artistic return to the human figure. The question that dominated his work was how to restore in art the sense of the presence of the being in space. Giacometti sought tirelessly to establish the contingent volume of his figures, which became increasingly slender and threadlike, and to place the finiteness of the humanoid frame in reality. He began to develop heads and nudes modelled in the void. During that experience of nothingness, which opposed his quest for the absolute, he discovered a metaphor for the human condition.

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Working towards the melding of her artistic work and the discipline of architecture, Cristina Iglesias has long been preoccupied with exploring notions of space and of a space within a space. The sheer scale of her sculptures invites viewers to walk around and occasionally through her pieces. On a more microscopic level, Iglesias has remained fascinated by details, with data that deliberately distracts or skews the perception of abstract forms. Rich surfaces, such as cast impressions of local and exotic flora, become progressively consuming as the viewer approaches them. This publication is the first mongraph on the artist, and includes a consideration of work done in collaboration with architects Abalos & Herreros and Paul Robbrech. 186 illustrations

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The intelligent irony that resonates through the best-known body of work of the American artist Tony Oursler, namely, his video and projection installations, results from the subtle combination of sound, language, and pop culture images that suffuse it. These elements are thoroughly explored in this monograph, the most extensive publication ever about Oursler and his work. His videos often employ the strangely projected human face to created bizarre contemporary icons and fragmented narratives that, while containing a humorous element, also speak to the dislocation caused by contemporary issues of sex, violence, and power. "Tony Oursler" includes 180 illustrations from his video, sculpture, and mixed-media works on paper, as well as an extensive selection of the artist's own writings. There are also two long conversations between Oursler and the artists Mike Kelley and Dan Graham, which testify to the long-lasting mutual appreciation and collaboration between them. This is a major new publication on the career of one of the most important American artists of the last two decades. 280 illustrations

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