Product Description: Better. Stronger. Faster. The original Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin, was a man barely alive — until the OSI transformed him into the world's first Bionic Man! Now, he and Oscar Goldman are the most effective team in National Security...read more

It is unlikely that you have ever found yourself trapped inside a burning skyscraper or entombed within an Egyptian pyramid. Nonetheless, you probably have some idea of these and many other places because of their portrayal on screen. The movies have overcome the constraints of time and place by bringing us images of diverse and otherwise unfamiliar settings. This work covers the many applications of art and architecture to sets appearing in movies produced in Hollywood between 1915 and 1955, after which time location shooting became ever more common (and less "artistic"). Part One deals with the physical characteristics and immediate functions of a wide variety of architectural sets constructed during Hollywood's "Golden Age." Part Two is concerned with the varieties of essentially mythic expressionism to which this ephemeral architecture was put.

Product Description: este es el primer libro dedicado a reconocer y a examinar los mejores ejemplos de estas arquitecturas-esculturas marginales y extravagantes (llamadas aqui escultecturas margivagantes) ejecutadas en el estado espanol. El trabajo esta realizado por un amplio equipo de profesores universitarios, bajo la direccion de Juan Antonio Ramirez...read more

Product Description: El cuerpo humano ha sido siempre un asunto importante para los artistas, y sabemos que el estudio de la anatomia se consideraba imprescindible en la formacion academica. Pero esta apacible tradicion se ha visto convulsionada en la epoca contemporanea por una eclosion de trabajos y propuestas dispares, carentes en muchas ocasiones de cualquier precedente...read more

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Product Description: Alianza Editorial. Madrid. 1995. 15 cm. 63 p., VIII p. de lám. col. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ramírez, Juan Antonio 1948-2009. Alianza cien. vol. 54. Picasso, Pablo. 1881-1973 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario...read more