Pedro Alcántara se sitúa en el vórtice crucial de la segunda mitad del siglo xx, período, en que el arte y las letras latinoamericanas expresan un especial empuje renovador y la militancia de los creadores enfrenta las atrocidades de las guerras imperiales, las funestas dictaduras que oscurecieron el cielo de este joven continente y las endémicas formas de violencia que son una venda para …
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures, and transformed tastes for independence …
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th-century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron among others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing hi…
Among Walter Anderson's best-loved books, An Alphabet and Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat are much admired by children and parents, and have long been given as special gifts emblazoned with Anderson's unique art. In that vein and long in demand is this revived edition of Anderson 's Alice, which carries the renowned artist's visual translation of Lewis Carroll's classic story, …
«Luca Pappagallo è il re della condivisione.» Oggi «Luca Pappagallo ha un modo tutto suo di proporci esattamente cosa ci piace mangiare nel modo in cui vorremmo mangiarlo e prepararlo.» La Cucina Italiana IL GUSTO TUTTO ITALIANO DELLA CUCINA DI CASA CON IL TOCCO INCONFONDIBILE DI LUCA PAPPAGALLO Luca Pappagallo ci apre le porte della sua cucina per esplorare le radici della tradizione i…
Dürr, Schnapps Distillery Technology. In this book, the six authors, all experts in their field, present the latest scientific findings in relation to schnapps distilleries. Professional distillers, beverage technologists, students of foodstuffs technology and scientists of related disciplines are given a sound and practically oriented introduction into schnapps distilling. This third edition …
Margaret Randall reveals personal stories and profound insights about the artists who most influenced her life. Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Randall writes of each relationship through multiple lenses: as makers of art, social comme…
L'inquietudine fa nascere l'opera d'arte? Anzi, è tale da giungere a forme di eccentricità o di follia, ma affascinanti e attuali? Partendo da queste domande, il saggio intraprende un'indagine su di un ventaglio di artisti dal Quattro al Seicento – pittori, soprattutto – per individuare capolavori nascosti, soluzioni originali, scoperte di personalità creative. Sfilano personaggi noti co…
Arriving with a bang on the post-World War I scene, the Surrealists proclaimed a revolution of thought and creation, insisting on breaking away from the past and a world that had been left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv of the Dada movement, a rebellious trait that led André Breton to say that Dadaism was "a machine had not thought to come up wi…