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De entre todas las aptitudes que debe desarrollar cualquier buen estudiante de arte, la reproduccin grfica de la cabeza humana resulta una de las ms complejas. Burne Hogarth se enfrenta en este libro al desafo de la precisin de las facciones, la estructura y las proporciones de la cabeza humana. A lo largo de cinco captulos y 300 ilustraciones en blanco y negro, el autor describe con claridad difana las caractersticas bsicas de la cabeza y el rostro, y aborda todo lo que debe tenerse en cuenta al cambiar la perspectiva de la cabeza y la importancia de las arrugas en el retrato individual....

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolutionfeatures hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba's Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia's financial support for the Cuban...

Investigaci n biogr fica, sociol gica, literaria y cr tica, sobre Nikolai G gol (1809 - 1852) escritor ruso del siglo XlX, Para armar un estudio ya considerado como el m s completo del gran escritor ruso.