REINO DE LA ARAUCANIA Y PATAGONIA

El ring luminoso rodeado por una expectante muchedumbre, la pesada humareda flotando a su alrededor, la tensión que precede al gran combate, el duro cFfoque cuerpo a cuerpo, han cautivado a directores de la talla de Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston o Stanley Kubrick, y ha hecho triunfar a actores tan dispares como James Cagney, John Garfield, Paul Newman o Sylvester Stallone. Desde los primeros experimentos de Thomas A. Edison en el siglo XIX hasta las más innovadoras imágenes de síntesis obtenidas por ordenador, el boxeo ha sido tema de melodramas, comedias, thrillers,...

All too often, arts and crafts are considered a simple pastime for housewives "with nothing else to do" but raise children and care for the home (as if these were small tasks!) Fortunately, new generations of artists and designers are increasingly putting craft techniques to use in their artwork and applying artistic techniques to create beautiful yet utilitarian objects. This book is for anyone aiming to create objects of beauty for everyday use in their own home or in the homes of friends and loved ones.

Guía básica de dibujo para artistas que desean mejorar su técnica en el área concreta de las naturalezas muertas

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...