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The time is right for a fresh look at this incomparable sunny city. Longtime Angeleno Tim Street-Porter chronicles today's vibrant buildings, coastline, and gardens of this glamorous global metropolis. Visit Los Angeles with a photographer who knows how to get the lighting right to highlight the spectacular architecture of the city. Stylish museums, such as the Broad, and a flourishing Arts District illustrate the explosive art scene, while Hollywood's Chateau Marmont and the historic Beverly Hills neighborhood add a chic dynamism. Across town, Culver City, home to the tech industry, features blocks of futuristic architecture by Eric Owen Moss. The modernist homes by Richard Neutra and John Lautner, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, are shown against dramatic backdrops of sky and sea. The visual sweep of this oversize book also encompasses the Los Angeles of film and television. Los Angeles is a city of dreams, and Los Angeles Today is a glorious portrait of the city in its infinite variety.

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.