BELLAS ARTES

Muy pocos profesores de interpretación han logrado desarrollar un método detallado que forme actores verdaderamente creativos: Sanford Meisner, fallecido en 1997, fue uno de ellos. Su técnica toma al artista como materia prima y construye, partiendo de cero, las habilidades que necesita para despuntar en la interpretación. Discípulo y mano derecha de Meisner, William Esper ha transmitido y ampliado su técnica durante décadas, en las que ha sido maestro de intérpretes como John Malkovich, Kim Basinger, William Hurt y Kathy Bates. En Arte y oficio del actor, con la ayuda de Damon DiMarco, uno de sus discípulos, Esper nos sumerge en el aula y nos permite asistir, como un alumno más, a uno de sus fascinantes cursos.

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.

Este libro nos acerca, con erudición y delicadeza, a la mirada medieval sobre el mundo. Fruto de una serie de conferencias pronunciadas por C. S. Lewis en Oxford, La imagen descartada, la última obra publicada por el autor, despliega ante nuestros ojos el “modelo” o “imagen” que encarnaba la síntesis medieval del mundo (la organización completa de su teología, ciencia e historia en un modelo mental del universo, único, complejo y armonioso), lo despoja de su hermetismo y nos ayuda a comprender los azarosos motivos por los que, con el transcurrir de la historia, resultó finalmente “descartado”.

The extraordinary paintings and watercolors of this contemporary British abstract artist, deeply influenced by the romantic English landscape tradition of Constable and Turner. This is the first major look at the work of the renowned yet intensely private and reclusive artist William Tillyer (b. 1938), best known for his abstract oil paintings, watercolors, and prints. Tillyer’s skill and hugely varied body of work make him one of Britain’s most respected artists, in the same generation as Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Tillyer is finally getting the recognition he deserves. While Tillyer’s paintings are largely abstract, they are based on the landscape of North Yorkshire, where he has lived and worked for most of his life. The book covers Tillyer’s experiments with nontraditional materials and techniques—his 3D panels, cut canvases, constructed works with found objects, printmaking with a wide range of processes, and paintings on wire mesh.

A stunning visual story of a place of wonder and mystique for every American, this book features what is legendary and beloved about Alaska, a land of magnificent wilderness and beauty, virtually untouched by human ambition. It also focuses on the key point of interest in the state today: endangered Bristol Bay, which faces potential mining of the world's greatest deposits of copper and gold. Its pristine waters are the worlds' biggest salmon spawning grounds. If the gold is mined, the ecosystem is destroyed -but the impoverished locals have work for the next half-century. After that, the salmon and the mines are gone. Melford, paired with noted environmental storyteller David Atcheson, addresses the dilemma by bowling us over with the beauty and importance of the place for all time. Underwritten by the Renewable Resources Coalition, the book will be distributed among its more than 5,000 members.

El tigre y la guitarra es la historia de Yoichiro Yamada, un japonés que vino a España para ser guitarrista flamenco y jamás regresó a su país. Terminó abducido por dos mundos idílicos y en principio opuestos: el del flamenco que amaba y el de los samuráis de los que era descendiente. En su deriva no supo encontrar la salida a su propio laberinto. «¡Vuelve a casa!», le pedían sus amigos. Pero se negaba: no podía regresar porque no se había convertido en el guitarrista que soñó. El tigre y la guitarra nos habla del choque de universos paralelos, de pasiones y de obsesiones, pero también de hasta dónde nos arrastran nuestros pensamientos, del fracaso y de cómo los sueños que perseguimos pueden acabar persiguiéndonos.