Apuntes de probabilidad y estadística

Based on different works of art, this book explores the human body showing artists how to express with more confidence and accuracy.

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

An Aymara Indian legend relating how Viracocha, the creator of the world, repopulated the world after the great flood of antiquity.

La guerra civil española (1936-1939) asoló nuestro país con una contienda fratricida que dejaría huellas indelebles en varias generaciones de españoles. Al tiempo, otro combate no menos intenso se libró en el terreno de las ideas, cuya máxima expresión serían la propaganda política y los medios de comunicación de masas. Todas las disyuntivas internacionales (democracia/totalitarismos, intervencionismo/ solidaridad, guerra total/defensa popular, nuevos sistemas de producción de imágenes/instrumentalización política) se dieron cita en nuestro territorio creando un nuevo...