Impresiones

Vienna's once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire is reflected in the elegance and monumentality of its architecture. But behind and beyond the stately façades, design innovations are transforming interiors and resulting in exciting new residential and commercial buildings being constructed at the city's edges. This user-friendly little guide profiles some of the most notable projects built during the last few years and includes color photographs and a site map. Another in teNeues' authoritative series of pocket guides to recent architecture in cities around the world Includes color ...

Don Manuel Romero de Terreros, Marqués de San Francisco, y descendiente del insigne fundador del Nacional Monte de Piedad (institución única en su tiempo que prestaba dinero a los necesitados), escribió este estudio sobre el arte colonial de México. Romero considera que el arte colonial es "el arte verdaderamente mexicano." Aunque es un texto breve, el autor ha incluido un examen detallado de las obras de arte fabricadas en la Nueva España; tiene además el mérito de incluir fotografías de monumentos que aún estaban en pie diez años después de la Revolución Mexicana.

This work analyses the celebrations (programme planning, decoration, processions¿) done because of royal births, marriages or death, as well as those celebrations done because of ecclesiastic arrangements, such as canonisation or beatification.

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...