Más Que Una Espalda Mojada

At 16, Salvador Dali had already developed the remarkable ego and uncanny perception that would distinguish him as one of the most notorious artists of the 20th century. A self-proclaimed surrealist, an avant-garde exhibitionist, and a criticized commercialist with questionable political affiliations, Dali was anything but benign. Via the artist's correspondence, diary, and autobiography, Gibson meticulously stitches together the wild characters and deep-dish details of Dali's life.

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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...

Víctor Casaus narra en esta obra los acontecimientos que marcaron la vida del poeta, cro-nista y escritor Pablo de la Torriente Brau, considerado como una de las figuras más repre-sentativas del periodismo cubano. A partir de los testimonios de sus familiares y amigos más cercanos, el autor rescata y reivindica el papel que Pablo desempeñó durante la dictadura de Gerardo Machado.