La bicicleta robada

Despite offers of ice cream, tap shoes, and other treats, Cati refuses to do anything she is told--until her mother gives Cati a taste of her own medicine. Full color.

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

Este libro le enseñará a proyectar sobre la pared o una pantalla la sombra de las manos o de diferentes objetos para crear imágenes fantásticas, dotadas incluso de movimiento. Además, le propone trucos para que pueda completar sus figuras con cordeles, siluetas recortadas y otros objetos domésticos a fin de que estas resulten más atractivas. Un libro que divertirá también a los pequeños y les proporcionará un pasatiempo creativo para desarrollar su movilidad manual y su imaginación. Un arte oriental que puede hacer renacer mágicamente en su propia casa.

Tomando como punto de partida la experiencia de la guerra del Golfo y el papel desempeñado por la prensa, la radio y la televisión durante los combates, el autor examina, con un consistente bagaje teórico y práctico, todos los grandes problemas relacionados con la información de los acontecimientos mundiales: la velocidad, la información en directo, los diversos puntos de vista, la censura, la rivalidad entre los medios, el papel de las agencias: la desinformación.