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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

En este libro Jacques Lafaye se avoca en desentrañar la trayectoria personal e intelectual de Octavio Paz, desde sus años de infancia en Mixcoac hasta su enfrentamiento ideológico con los poderes fácticos a través de las revistas Plural y Vuelta, sin dejar de ahondar en la influencia que tuvieron en él sus años como diplomático en Francia (entre 1945 y 1961) y que le permitieron dialogar con las más grandes figuras intelectuales de la época. Lafaye -quien fuera amigo y colaborador de Paz- no se limita al análisis poético, ni al simple relato biográfico, sino que logra adentrarse...

Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.

El historiador y soci logo argentino Jos Luis Busaniche reuni en este libro singular y estimulante los testimonios personales de aquellos que por una u otra raz n trataron de cerca al Bol var de la espada pero que en las horas de su ntimo aburrimiento le a la nueva Elo sa. Las m s dis miles facetas de su existencia prodigiosa seaprecian en estas p ginas.