Visiones Laterales

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...

A succinct, lively and successful fable about racism, pollution and war, in which children offer hope for a happier future. This book is a unique collaboration between Quentin Blake and 1,800 children from all over the world.

For public and school libraries, this resource reflects recent changes in Library of Congress subject headings and authority files, and provides bilingual information essential to reference librarians and catalogers serving Spanish speakers. • Presents reliable translations by native Spanish-speaking librarians of thousands of subject terms • Includes topical terms with all personal name entries to aid in classification • Provides a supplementary Spanish-to-English index that leads back to English terms for use in non-English library services

El autor de Tocar los libros (un libro que se ha convertido ya en un pequeño objeto de culto para los amantes de los libros) se adentra en Cortázar y los libros en el mundo más íntimo y curioso de Julio Cortázar, el de su biblioteca personal. El rastro de sus libros subrayados, con esquinas dobladas, apostillas y papeles -hojas de calendario, recortes de periódico, un pedazo de cartulina garabateado- dibuja un retrato imaginario sobre el autor de Rayuela que hará las delicias de bibliófilos y bibliópatas.