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Carlos del Amor va un paso más allá en el viaje a través de los cuadros que emprendió con Emocionarte. Esta vez se centra en el retrato, un género que le permite recrear las vidas de los retratados y de los artistas, y cómo estos últimos también se retratan en su forma de pintar. La elección de sus modelos o los retratos de encargo, la fidelidad realista al retratado o la percepción de este por parte del artista, el autorretrato que tantos practican, quiénes eran los modelos y qué vidas llevaban, las dificultades de acogida de la obra por parte de quien la encarga o por el público, forman parte de la historia íntima de estas obras que iremos descubriendo en el libro. Con su característico estilo literario, Carlos del Amor nos muestra un mundo detrás de cada cuadro y, de nuevo, nos revela que han sido muchas las mujeres artistas, y muy poco conocidas hasta ahora.

Ver cine con los hijos es una experiencia reseñable para cualquier mortal. Pero si eres crítico y das clase de historia del cine, el reto es mayúsculo. A traves de estas páginas, de capítulos que transitan del cine animado al de aventuras, del terror a la ciencia ficción, Javier Ocaña acompaña a sus hijos –y a los lectores– en un viaje que nos lleva desde Blancanieves a Kurosawa, desde la infancia a la madurez, emocional e intelectual. Un libro en el que alta y baja cultura se entremezclan dejando espacio solo a la curiosidad y a la intuición, y que nos transmite la emoción de volver a ver nuestras películas favoritas como si las estuvieramos viendo por primera vez.

Ocean Soul is a love story. It is a story of discovery. It is a story of hope. The story begins when a boy who loves the sea attends an event with underwater photographers and has an epiphany: "I had always wanted to explore the oceans, but I now understood how I would do this. I would do it with a camera." With sheer deter­mination, hard work, and a little bit of luck the boy, named Brian Skerry, realized his dream with more than 20 awe-inspiring articles for National Geographic magazine. Now, with Ocean Soul, he showcases his stunning photography and describes his adventurous life in a gripping portrait of the ocean as a place of beauty and mystery, a place in trouble, and ultimately, a place of hope that will rebound with the proper attention and care.

Rodin supo transmitir su pasión por la observación de la naturaleza y captar la vida y la verdad de las formas con una fuerza incomparable. Precisamente en el descubrimiento o el redescubrimiento de este legado de valor incalculable radica el éxito del libro de Francois Blanchetiére.

During the pivotal years between the world wars, Surrealist artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded through their works to the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe, resulting in a period of surprising brilliance and fertility. Monstrosities in the real world bred monsters in paintings and sculpture, on film, and in the pages of journals and artists' books. Despite the political and personal turmoil brought on by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, avant-garde artists in Europe and those who sought refuge in the United States pushed themselves to create some of the most potent and striking images of the Surrealist movement. Trailblazing essays by four experts in the field trace the experimental and international extent of Surrealist art during these years--and, perhaps most unexpectedly of all, its irrepressible beauty.

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden' for the Tremeloes and 'Lady Marmalade' for LaBelle--Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Collected here are more than 80 of Bob Crewe's artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s to more complex, tactile compositions made on his full-time return to painting in the 1990s--accompanied by archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to popular music. Essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol and Bacon; legendary record producer Andrew Loog Oldham captures the period of radical experimentalism in which Crewe wrote many of the most memorable songs in the canon of modern pop; and Donald Albrecht's introduction ties together the many complementary aspects of Crewe's personal and creative lives.