Impresiones

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...

El fortín de las órdenes militares en Plan del Rió, Veracruz / Daniel Molina Feal -- La reivindicación del tiempo : antecedentes para una investigacíon en la antigua Ermita del Rosario / Fernando Ferreira Barbosa --Rescate arqueológico en el ex convento de San Agustín, Veracruz / J. Omar Ruiz.

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

El libro analiza cómo convivió el desarrollismo franquista a partir de 1958 con la violencia política y represiva, entendiendo que no hubo el uno y la otra, sino el uno «en» la otra. Se acerca a los discursos populares que construyó el franquismo para ganar apoyos entre la opinión pública. Y, por otro lado, utiliza las fuentes policiales (de la Guardia Civil, de la Dirección General de Seguridad y de los gobiernos civiles) para estudiar la socialización política antifranquista que buscó deslegitimar a la dictadura. Es la historia no de grandes líderes, cuya imagen no se agiganta...