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Las descarnadas, inspiradoras y emocionantes memorias del icono y legendario ganador de varios premios Oscar, Sylvester Stallone, sobre su increíble camino al estrellato y la mejor historia jamás contada de un ganador contra todo pronostico.En los cincuenta años transcurridos desde que Sylvester Stallone subio corriendo los escalones del Museo de Arte de Filadelfia, el mismo y esos escalones se han convertido en simbolos de resiliencia y determinacion, y han inspirado a millones de personas de todo el mundo para perseguir sus sueños. En Los escalones, Stallone relata como persiguio sus propios sueños. Culminando un proceso de reflexion de decadas, Sly cuenta sus origenes -un nacimiento dificil, una infancia aun mas dificil, años de problemas en el colegio por no ser comprendido- y explica como la historia real de una vida exitosa se construye afrontando, asumiendo y, en ultimo termino, superando nuestras dificultades. La clave esta en la distancia que estamos dispuestos a recorrer y en los pasos que debemos dar para pasar de donde estamos a donde queremos llegar.En una narracion enmarcada entre su llegada a Nueva York en 1969 y el triunfo de Rocky en los Oscar de 1977, Sly teje un vivido y apasionante relato de lucha, subsistencia y, finalmente, exito. Escribe sobre sus inicios y tambien sobre los años posteriores, asi como sobre la persistencia, creatividad y resiliencia que lo llevaron no solamente a crear Rocky, sino a labrarse una carrera repleta de papeles iconicos. Los escalones constituye un testimonio de la extraordinaria vida de Stallone y una profunda meditacion sobre la importancia de la fuerza de voluntad, la vision y el trabajo duro.

Una valiosa y estimulante colección de ensayos, críticas y entrevistas de la influyente autora de Todo sobre el amor.«Debe haber una revolución en nuestra forma de ver, en nuestra forma de mirar».En

Algunos se dejaran matar por ella. Otros sienten rechazo hacia una mujer a punto de ser devorada por fuegos que ella misma haba iniciado. La Pantoja ha demostrado una capacidad casi sobrehumana para sobrevivir, incluso, a su propio mito.Isabel Pantoja es una de las figuras ms influyentes y controvertidas de la cultura popular espaola. Idolatrada durante dcadas y cuestionada con la misma intensidad, su biografa parece escrita para poner a prueba los lmites del talento y el poder de la leyenda. El periodista lex Ander aborda sin reverencias la trayectoria de una mujer que supo construir una carrera artstica deslumbrante mientras levantaba, casi sin quererlo, un personaje pblico lleno de claroscuros. Desde sus orgenes humildes en el barrio sevillano de Triana hasta su consagracin como diva de la copla, pasando por la viudez trgica que la convirti en icono nacional y los los judiciales y familiares que erosionaron su imagen, este libro recorre los hitos fundamentales de una vida marcada por la ambicin, la necesidad de control y la contradiccin. No es simplemente la historia de una artista, sino tambin la de un clan, una forma de entender la fama y una relacin problemtica con la verdad y la memoria.Tan lejos del panegrico como del linchamiento, estas pginas cuestionan hasta qu punto el mito ha servido de refugio frente a los errores, as como cunto hay en ella de vctima y cunto de estratega. Un retrato bien documentado de un personaje que sigue dividiendo a Espaa.

Un libro para locos del cine: claro, divertido y sin postureo.¿Por qué todavía se ruedan películas con guiones tan malos? ¿Qué es un actor bancable? ¿Cómo es posible que Harry Potter no fuera rentable en taquilla? ¿Cual es la camara de cine mas usada de la historia?Cine descomplicado es una guia divertida, visual y sorprendentemente adictiva que te revela todo lo que siempre quisiste saber sobre el mundo del cine: como se hace una pelicula, como funcionan las grandes productoras, que ocurre realmente en un rodaje y por que algunas acaban siendo autenticos desastres gloriosos.No hace falta leerlo de principio a fin. Puedes abrirlo por cualquier capitulo y descubrir como se ruedan las escenas de accion, quien manda realmente en un rodaje o que pasa despues de la ultima claqueta.Un recorrido lleno de anecdotas, curiosidades y secretos del septimo arte, contado con humor, pasion y un estilo cercano que convierte la complejidad del cine en algo facil de disfrutar.

¿Puede la ciencia explicar el complejo proceso de creación musical? Esta obra explora los vínculos entre creación artística, belleza y actividad cerebral en el pensamiento creativo. Pierre Boulez —un

Un ensayo fascinante sobre cómo "el año terrible" de París desembocó en el nacimiento del impresionismo.Entre el verano de 1870 y la primavera de 1871, un periodo que Victor Hugo bautizó como el "Año Terrible", Paris fue sitiada, padecio una hambruna y hubo de rendirse al ejercito aleman. A continuacion, los republicanos radicales establecieron la Comuna, que fue aplastada tras sangrientas batallas callejeras y el incendio del centro de la ciudad. Como demuestra el prestigioso critico de arte Sebastian Smee, ganador del Premio Pulitzer, fue durante estos tiempos tumultuosos cuando nacio el movimiento impresionista, como respuesta a la violencia, la guerra civil y la intriga politica.Smee relata la historia de aquellos dias dramaticos a traves de los ojos de las grandes figuras del impresionismo. Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot y Edgar Degas quedaron atrapados en Paris durante el sitio. Otros, como Pierre-Auguste Renoir y Frederic Bazille, se unieron a regimientos fuera de la capital, mientras que Claude Monet y Camille Pissarro huyeron del pais justo a tiempo. En el periodo posterior, estos artistas desarrollaron una nueva conciencia sobre la fragilidad de la vida. Esa sensacion de transitoriedad -reflejada en el enfasis en la luz fugitiva, las estaciones cambiantes, las escenas callejeras fugaces y la impermanencia de todas las cosas- se convirtio en la gran aportacion del movimiento a la historia del arte.En el corazon de todo ello hay una historia de amor: la de Manet, considerado por todos el padre del impresionismo, y Morisot, la unica mujer que desempeño un papel central en el movimiento desde sus inicios. Smee describe con gran sensibilidad su compleja relacion, la influencia mutua que ejercieron y su inmenso legado, al tiempo que otorga el merecido reconocimiento a la mujer en el corazon del impresionismo.Penetrante y absorbente, Paris en ruinas capta las pasiones y politicas cambiantes del mundo del arte y explica el profundo impacto que tuvieron las presiones del sitio y el caos de la Comuna en el arte moderno, y como el genio artistico puede surgir de la oscuridad y la catastrofe.La critica ha dicho:Smee se basa en una gran cantidad de fuentes historicas y biograficas para examinar el nacimiento del impresionismo durante una epoca de feroz agitacion politica y social en Francia... Transmite vividamente el terror de la epoca, los tensos enfrentamientos militares y las conspiraciones, y las pasiones inflamadas... Su descripcion de las obras de los impresionistas es perspicaz, como lo es su sensibilidad hacia las complicadas relaciones entre los artistas. Historia cultural habil y vibrante.Kirkus Reviews Persuasivo y vivido El arte de la rivalidad se enraiza en la teoria de primera mano, pero esta dirigido a lectores no especializados, se trata en parte de minibiografias y en parte de una historia del arte mas amplia. John Williams, The New York Times (Sobre El arte de la rivalidad) Con detalles e incisividad propios de una novela y una prosa vivida y agil El arte de la rivalidad es una delicia pura y cargada de informacion, escrita con astuta autoridad. Michael Upchurch, The Boston Globe (Sobre El arte de la rivalidad) La brillante biografia de grupo de Sebastian Smee es unica en su genero. Ann...

Una fascinante e insólita exploración sobre el mundo de la música y el papel que desempeña en nuestras vidas.Michel Faber, uno de los novelistas más talentosos y singulares de los últimos tiempos, se adentra en el ensayo para escribir el libro que siempre quiso escribir: una obra brillante y exhaustiva sobre como y por que escuchamos musica, y por que escuchamos la musica que escuchamos y no otra. A traves de asuntos como las reacciones electroquimicas que provoca en nuestro cerebro, la dicotomia entre buen y mal gusto, la nocion de cool o los aspectos biologicos y socioculturales que nos determinan, el autor desvela algunos aspectos sorprendentes sobre nuestra relacion con la musica, y nos descubre hasta que punto el acto de escuchar cambia nuestra relacion con el mundo.El resultado es un extraordinario viaje por el sonido en sus multiples facetas. Una apasionada, desmitificadora y accesible reflexion sobre todo aquello relacionado con el acto y el arte musical y el papel que ambos desempeñan en nuestras vidas.

Las memorias del autor de El gueto interior, maestro en ahondar en los recodos del silencio y sus filiales.¿Podemos seguir hablando de literatura? La pregunta puede parecer ociosa, pero el autor no busca evitarla. Un proyecto modesto y, sin embargo, de una ambicion desmesurada, totalmente irrealizable, apasionante por sus propias contradicciones, ya que no deja de interrogarse sobre la validez de la escritura y pretende acabar con el lenguaje volviendo sus propias armas contra el.Le MondeAntes de ser cineasta y escritor, Santiago H. Amigorena fue un niño silencioso, dividido entre lenguas, ciudades y recuerdos. A los once años lo arrancaron de Buenos Aires y Montevideo para llevarlo a Francia, siguiendo una larga estirpe de exilios y huidas. A partir de ahi aprendio que el silencio puede ser una patria y una condena.Una infancia laconica es la memoria de aquel niño que intento comprender el mundo desde el mutismo, el recuento de su primer desarraigo, sus primeros amores y derrotas. En estas paginas, Amigorena escribe como quien busca una reconciliacion imposible: con su infancia, con el lenguaje, con la perdida que funda toda escritura.Libro del origen y del regreso, es tambien una meditacion luminosa sobre el poder de las palabras para devolvernos, por un instante, aquello que creiamos perdido.Sobre el autor y El gueto interiorla critica ha dicho:Lei este libro como hace mucho que no leia ninguno. Martin Caparros Amigorena empuja la empatia literaria hasta los limites de lo posible, haciendo suyas las ideas del abuelo que apenas conocio.Le Monde Una potente meditacion acerca del exilio y del peso del silencio en el corazon de una familia.La Croix He aqui una novela con voz y modulacion, una novela susurrada, una novela inquietante con paginas perturbadoras.Le Figaro La historia del Holocausto es bien conocida, pero jamas la habia leido desde la perspectiva argentina. Es conmovedora.L Obs Amigorena se une a Primo Levi, Jorge Semprun o Imre Kertesz poniendo su ladrillo en el edificio erigido en memoria de todas las victimas del Holocausto y, mas alla, de la humanidad. Un gran libro.Culturebox

THE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.

The events of your life, from local walks to exotic trips, can provide endless inspiration for textile art. This inspiring book shows you how to record your experiences, using sketchbooks, journals and photography, to create personal narratives that can form a starting point for more finished stitched-textile pieces.Acclaimed textile artist and teacher Cas Holmes, whose work is often inspired by her life and the journeys she makes, helps you find inspiration through your own life and explains how to record what you see in sketchbooks and journals, which can often become beautiful objects in themselves. She explains how you can use photography, both as documentation and as inspiration, and sometimes incorporate it into the work itself, along with found objects and ephemera.Throughout the book are useful techniques that can be harnessed to add extra interest to your work, such as methods for making layered collages, how to sketch with stitch, and advice on design and colour. If you want to create beautiful, unique work inspired by your life and travels, this is the perfect book for you.

One of the attractions of painting outdoors is the challenge of capturing the spirit of a place changing light, weather and transient conditions demand particular painting skills if they are to be interpreted effectively. Leading painter David Curtis works on location, in all weathers, observing and capturing the subtle effects of light and mood. Oil paint is as good for painting on site as it is for large-scale painting in the studio; it is remarkably responsive; can be applied in many different ways; and it allows time to assess and modify work in progress. In this fascinating book, David Curtis shows how he achieves such expressive and original results using drawings, paintings and stage-by-stage examples. He gives detailed explanations of his two main working methods for plein-air paintings and for studio compositions as well as plenty of helpful guidance and advice on choosing materials, exploring techniques, selecting ideas, composition, colour and tone and associated topics. Drawing skills and interpreting the qualities of light are other key issues that he deals with, while his wonderfully evocative landscapes, coastal scenes, interiors and figure compositions provide much inspiration.

"She is the most wonderfully inventive and brilliantly talented designer" Dame Judi Dench on Clancy.Deirdre Clancy is one of the most experienced and accomplished costume designers in the business. In this book, she gives her inside knowledge of designing for stage and screen, which includes television, film, theatre and opera. She includes a brief illustrated history of costume design from the Greeks to Lady Gaga an invaluable guide for students and current designers.Part Two takes the reader through the design process: how you go about doing it, and the different strands of costume design from contemporary clothes through to period costume, how to communicate with the audience, designing on paper and with Photoshop or on an iPad and how to share and communicate your ideas and well as mood boards and collages for inspiration. Part Three is about the world of costume design what it involves and how to get into the field, who does what and the differences between working for stage and screen productions. Clancy advises on budgets and improvisation and covers all the practicalities and behind-the-scenes tips. Part Four looks at period costume from the Dark Ages up to the twentieth century, encompassing authenticity and feasibility. Finally, Part Five looks at individual case studies in depth, including opera and Shakespeare productions.Packed with great drawings and case studies, this is an essential book for any student or professional costume designer looking for additional inside advice. Whether you are a designer for the stage or screen, this book has something new for you with advice from one of the best in the business.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator.He is undoubtedly one of Scotlands most celebrated architects. His astounding buildings creatively reinterpreted the past and opened the way for the Modern Movement. Architecture was his first love, though he was also a highly accomplished artist and designer of interiors, furniture, metalwork, glass and textiles. In addition his graphic design work, using nature and organic plant forms, made him an early exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In the later years of his life he produced watercolour paintings of intense power and subtlety. His extraordinary work is still regarded today as innovative and modern, and continues to astonish and delight art lovers everywhere.

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy Lippard, with whom he lived during that decade, Simonds believed in combining art and activism, always preferring what he called the "real world" to the art world. Yet despite taking part in many of the seminal exhibitions and art events of 1970s New York, Simonds has left few traces on art history. In order to explain Simondss absence while simultaneously arguing for his central place within it, Jules Pelta Feldman reconsiders the decades self-conception, finding that Simonds exemplifies much of what has been ignored in 1970s artand much of what establishes it as a unique period of experimentation and possibility.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

From her late-80s beginnings, capturing our hearts as Charlene in Neighbours and singing I Should Be So Lucky in a bubble bath, to her gold-plated hits like Spinning Around and Padam Padam soundtracking the euphoria of dancefloors the world over, there is only one Kylie Minogue. She has sold over eighty-million records internationally, is the best-selling Australian pop star of all time and has collaborated with some of the biggest names in music, fashion and photography across her various shape-shifting eras. She is, undoubtedly, a modern-day icon. But who is the real Kylie? And how has she remained a mystery while also navigating a forty-year career in the fickle world of pop? Award-winning writer Michael Cragg takes us on a journey into the psyche of one of the worlds most enigmatic pop stars. Via a mix of brand new interviews, a dash of oral history and some playful music writing, Cant Get You Out of My Head aims to put the pop puzzle pieces together.

Your Institutions Mission Is Key to Its Flourishing For church-related colleges and universities, a mission statement is a powerful tool. It communicates what is distinctive about each institution and its relationship to its faith tradition. Yet having a clear and compelling mission statement is not enough. Universities face ongoing challenges in stewarding their missions in a rapidly changing culture.In A Mission Held in Trust, leading administrators and educators from both Protestant and Catholic institutions provide wisdom on mission alignment in higher education. Mission is designed to be held in trust by members of a community and stewarded for the next generation.Contributors shed light on a number of topics to help church-related colleges and universities advance their missions, including: how mission statements serve as organizing rationales for exercising institutional identity; challenges to mission in a post-secular cultural context; issues of law, lobbying, messaging, and finance; the theological, philosophical, and legal characteristics of fiduciary service; and how students, educators, board members, and other stakeholders are formed for service. This book brings together a distinguished roster of higher education leaders from presidents of Notre Dame, Baylor, Biola, Pepperdine, Franciscan, and Samford to senior officials from Wheaton, Villanova, Saint Louis, and the Catholic University of America. Spanning Catholic, evangelical, and ecumenical institutions, their combined experience in leadership, formation, and ministry offers readers practical, hard-won wisdom they can trust.In the midst of uncertainties and change, mission remains a sacred trustinherited from predecessors and passed along to successors. A Mission Held in Trust is a unique ecumenical resource providing wisdom and encouragement for leaders seeking faithfulness in these vital vocations.

Virginia Vernon was responsible for the welfare of ENSA performers around the world during the Second World War. Her fluent French, a result of studying in Paris as a teenager, and her understanding of theatre after a successful career on Broadway made her an ideal candidate, so in 1939, the 46-year-old was recruited to bring morale-boosting entertainment to British troops in France. She soon discovered that "welfare" was a catch-all for many activities; much more than simply arranging accommodation for artistes and meeting performers on arrival. Battling grief after the loss of her husband, contending with male chauvinism in the Army, and travelling through the most inhospitable places, along the way Madam V won the support and admiration of royalty, the military, and the stars of stage and screen, gaining a fearsome reputation for achieving the impossible. This new study tells the story of her wartime journey, from Arras in 1939 to V.E. Day in Rangoon.