De escritores y libros

Título: “La plaza España de Córdoba, Capital”. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista HISTÓRICA del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba – ISSN: 1793-5748. Año: diciembre de 2019.

A rich man had a garden in which he had planted pear trees sprung from seeds taken from Eden. If eaten, these pears were said to have rejuvenating properties. Since he never had the opportunity to sample his pears -- because the fruit was always stolen from the bough -- he charged his children with finding the thief. But only his youngest will undertake the task and find the enchanted dove.

Un auténtico recetario visual de técnicas pictóricas. La manera más eficaz de aprender a pintar y avanzar en la práctica de la pintura es pintando. Éste es un libro para aprender a avanzar en el arte de la pintura acrílica, y por ello propone al lector nada menos que 101 técnicas distintas ilustradas en otras tantas secuencias paso a paso. Las secuencias son relativamente cortas: salvo contadas excepciones, ocupan una o dos páginas. Es un espacio más que suficiente para dar cuenta, de una forma clara y sencilla, de todas las técnicas que caracterizan a la pintura acrílica. Cada...

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...