Dali

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

Known as the "Queen City of the Ozarks," Springfield was founded in 1829 and became the seat of Greene County in 1835. Beginning in 1870, Springfield served as a railroad hub that connected the Ozarks culturally and financially to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and points along the East Coast. In 1938, Route 66 became part of the city's history when the legendary highway came through the public square on College Street. Built on land donated by Springfield founder John Polk Campbell, the square continues to be a vital part of the city's culture and economy. Postcard History Series:...

El contenido de este libro es el resultado del interés por un sector de la literatura española que, dentro del espíritu simbolista, acusa la influencia de ciertos escritores belgas. Del simbolismo belga procede tanto esa obsesión por las ciudades decrépitas, de espléndido pasado y presente mortecino, de tan reiterada presencia en textos de los primeros años del siglo XX, como la creación de una imagen de España, asumida luego como propia y afirmada en obras literarias y pictóricas de Regoyos, Zuloaga o José Gutiérrez-Solana, entre otros. La gran creación azoriniana enlaza aquí...

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Este libro se inspira en la literatura filosófica, antropológica, psicológica y musicológica para analizar las tradiciones musicales y ciertos métodos curativos de diversas sociedades. La obra incluye numerosos estudios de casos de diferentes culturas: el culto a la posesión espiritista en África y los chamanes de diversas tradiciones, sobre todo. La autora explora la práctica musical contemporánea New Age, así como el neochamanismo y los conceptos de la curación musical en la estética musical de Occidente, y estudia el uso de la música en la medicina occidental y la...