Libros

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath · 2000

The Artist''s Way

Julia Cameron · 2016

Just Kids

Patti Smith · 2010

<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

La belleza del objeto cotidiano (Spanish Edition)

Soetsu Yanagi • 2020

Al despertar, lo primero que percibimos es el tacto de nuestras sá banas, la luz con la que nos envuelve la lá mpara que encendemos, la forma y color de la vajilla del desayuno... Desde ese momento y hasta terminar el dí a, cuando cerramos de nuevo los ojos sobre el textil de la almohada, nuestro cuerpo se habrá topado y desenvuelto con una infinidad de objetos diversos. Se trata de cosas modestas, comunes y ordinarias, que usamos constantemente sin prestarles apenas atenció n. Pero los objetos son tambié n unos compañ eros constantes en nuestra vida y, como tales, afirma Soetsu Yanagi, deben hacerse con cuidado y fabricarse para que duren. Deben ser tratados con respeto e incluso afecto. Y deben aunar perfectamente belleza y utilidad. Soetsu Yanagi es un pensador imprescindible hasta ahora iné dito en castellano, y una de las voces clave del siglo XX en llamar la atenció n sobre el valor de los objetos cotidianos y la artesaní a anó nima. Este libro, que recopila los ensayos breves del crí tico japoné s, nos enseñ ará a mirar con nuevos ojos a nuestro alrededor y a admirar el increí ble valor material e intangible de las creaciones anó nimas, siempre bellas y honestas, que forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana.