Síntesis de la historia de la pintura colonial escrita con notable pureza y elegancia de lenguaje, con la que Couto resuelve ese gran problema de cómo debe ser escrita una obra de arte acerca del arte.
El muralismo mexicano es uno de los movimientos artísticos de mayor impacto y trascendencia en América Latina, y marca un periodo fundacional en la cultura mexicana.
This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style.
The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biographyFrom Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run of the acclaimed radio show Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland conversed and played piano duets with jazz greats and, via National Public Radio syndication, brought the best of jazz standards to listeners.
Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei verbunden mit der Beschreibung ihrer praktischen Anwendung in Muskau ist der Titel eines reich illustrierten Buches von Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, das 1834 bei Hallberger in Stuttgart erschien.
Auszug: "Das Buch wendet sich an Leser mannigfacher Art; dem Archäologen und Kunsthistoriker wie dem Kulturhistoriker im weitesten Sinne möchte es dienen, der Einzelforschung, die nun hoffentlich auf dem lange vernachlässigten Gebiete einsetzen wird, die Wege ebnen.
Excerpt: "e;Perhaps the true explanation of this variation be tween British and American usage is found in the fact that America is a new country, and hence tradition here does not carry such binding authority as in the Old World.
Excerpt: "e;From time immemorial the human race has been interested in pictures of persons, scenes and things; and one of the most potent means of driving home ideas and lessons, and oftentimes of arousing human passions, is the cartoon.
Die Ratten: Berliner Tragikomödie Gerhart Hauptmann - Schauplatz der 1911 erschienenen Tragikkomödie Die Ratten ist eine ehemalige Berliner Kavaleriekaserne, in der Theaterdirektor Hassenreuter seinen Kostümfundus untergebracht hat.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597.
The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare - The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy, first published in 1634 and attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.
The Seven Plays in English Verse Sophocles - Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens' pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy - Von William Faulkner als der beste jemals geschriebene Roman und von Fjodor Dostojewski als fehlerfrei beschrieben, erzählt Anna Karenina von der zum Scheitern verurteilten Liebesbeziehung zwischen der sinnlichen und rebellischen Anna und dem schneidigen Offizier Graf Wronski.
Plutarchs Lives Plutarch - Lives is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch who lived during the first and second century AD.
The Technique of the Mystery Story Carolyn Wells - Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie?
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather - Willa Cather described the result of her bold experimentation into advancing the art of the novel in Death Comes for the Archbishop as "e;altogether a new kind of thing.
Zwanzigtausend Meilen unter'm Meer Jules Verne - Der Roman ist vorgeblich ein Erlebnisbericht des französischen Professors Pierre Aronnax, Autor eines Werkes über Die Geheimnisse der Meerestiefen.
Henry VI, Part 3 - William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part 3 (often written as 3 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.
Wild Apples Henry David Thoreau - Wild Apples is a compilation of two classic philosophical nature essays by the great American naturalist and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte - Anne Bronte's second novel, published in 1848, tells the story of the young widow, Helen Graham, who takes up residence at Wildfell Hall with her son and servant.
