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Mrs Delany: A Life
By Clarissa Campbell Orr. 2019
The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany – the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue…
to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but her artistic flourishing came late in life. This nuanced, deeply researched biography pulls back the lens to place Delany’s art in the broader context of her family life, relationships with royalty, and her endeavor to live as an independent woman. Clarissa Campbell Orr, a noted authority on the eighteenth century court, charts Mary Delany’s development from a young woman at the heart of elite circles to beloved godmother and celebrated collagist. Orr traces the varied connections Mary Delany fostered throughout her life and which influenced her intellectual and artistic development: she was friends with prominent figures such as Methodist leader, John Wesley, composer G. F. Handel, the writer Jonathan Swift, and England’s leading patron of science, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. Mrs Delany reveals its subject to be far more than a widow befriended by George III and Queen Charlotte; she is, instead, restored to her proper place in the era’s aristocratic society –and as a ground-breaking artist.Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir Of Eating In China
By Fuchsia Dunlop. 2008
The modern classic that redefined the travel food memoir, with a new foreword from Bee Wilson. Fuchsia Dunlop, the first…
Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, “has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone” (Julia Moskin, New York Times). In Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Dunlop recalls her rapturous encounters with China’s culinary riches, alongside her brushes with corruption, environmental degradation, and greed. The resulting memoir is a vibrant portrait of Chinese culinary culture, from the remote Gansu countryside to the enchanting old city of Yangzhou. The most talked-about travel narrative when it was published a decade ago, this reissue of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper remains a thrilling adventure that you won’t be able to put down.The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait (Painted Turtle)
By Linda Solomon. 2019
"Aretha was private. I respected this and she trusted me." Linda Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was…
just beginning her career as a photojournalist and newspaper columnist. Franklin’s brother and business manager arranged for Solomon to capture the singer’s major career events—just as she was coming back home to Detroit from California—while Franklin requested that Solomon document everything else. Everything. And she did just that. What developed over these years of photographing birthday and Christmas parties in her home, annual celebrity galas, private backstage moments during national awards ceremonies, photo shoots with the iconic pink Cadillac, and more was a friendship between two women who grew to enjoy and respect one another. The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait is a book full of firsts as Solomon was invited not only to capture historical events in Aretha’s music career showcasing Detroit but to join in with the Franklin family’s most intimate and cherished moments in her beloved hometown. From performance rehearsals with James Brown to off-camera shenanigans while filming a music video with the Rolling Stones, from her first television special to her first time performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to her last performance with her sisters at her father’s church and her son’s college graduation celebration. In the book’s afterword, Sabrina Vonne' Owens, Franklin’s niece, honors her aunt, a woman who was an overwhelming supporter of civil rights, women’s rights, and fundraising campaigns that helped to benefit her hometown. There was a time in her career—when Franklin was more in demand than ever before—when she insisted that if someone wanted her to perform, they had to come to Detroit. During this time all of her major concerts, national television specials, music videos, and commercials would happen in Detroit. Aretha Franklin showed her respect for the people in the city who championed her from the very beginning when she started singing as a young girl in the church choir. Franklin used to say, "I am the lady next door when I am not on stage." The Queen Next Door offers fans a personal and unseen look at an extraordinary woman in her most natural moments—both regal and intimate—and highlights her devotion to her family and her hometown Detroit—"forever and ever."Chance of a Lifetime
By Evelina Ribeiro Craven. 2019
Evelina's drawings and paintings are said to be intriguing and different. People who see them cannot understand how she creates…
all that out of the blue. Although creativity exists in everybody, there are still people who usually claim they cannot draw a line to do any drawing. But this book shows us the journey towards that and how hard it is to bring out images we have in our unconscious mind, projecting them into works of art, plus the efforts to produce. Evelina always wanted to go abroad and study in Europe but could only do that after being married and having children somehow later in life than anticipated. Initially, she worked as a biochemist at a Brazilian university for about 20 years, then there was an opportunity for her to study for a PhD abroad, as she always wanted. This was the pivot of all changes in her life, which culminated with her divorce, remarriage, change of profession, studying for a BA in Arts and adopting a new approach to life altogether. As she wished to create a different work - innovative, reflecting her personality, a unique work - she embarked on a process of creativity and development, a complete approach to life, for example, through hard work with drawings, which this book is about. Associated with that, the reader will get enthralled with descriptions of life in Brazil, some socio-economic aspects of the author's life since early ages from rich surroundings while with her father's family, in contrast with her mother's poverty-stricken family way of living as a widow with five children. After reading this book, one will reflect on how life depends on opportunity and the efforts to make the best of that. We can always change life if and when we want to. That is why the title of this book is 'Chance of a Lifetime', because it comes and goes; when it happens, one has to grab it, making the best possible.Michael Snow: Lives and Works
By James King. 2019
A biography of Canada’s greatest living artist. Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist, and he…
is also acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important issues in the history of art. During his career, the notion of what constitutes a work of art has undergone many changes, and he has been in the forefront of defining these changes. In many ways, he is the visual artist as intellectual: his images are vibrant and compelling but so are the ideas behind them. Ultimately, his work is about perception. What do we really see when we look at a work of art? What is the act of looking all about? What exactly is a work of art? Michael Snow: Lives and Works is a personal and intimate portrait of an artist who has helped shaped the face of Canadian art in our time.Injichaag: Anishinaabe Poetics in Art and Words
By Rene Meshake. 2019
This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin “word bundles” that serve…
as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern Ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls Pagwashing. He was raised through his grandmother’s “bush university,” periodically attending Indian day school, but at the age of ten Rene was scooped into the Indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well as the loss of language and connection to family and community. This residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. Now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, Rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Meshake’s artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery. The material is organized thematically around a series of Meshake’s paintings. It is framed by Kim Anderson, Rene’s Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history who has worked with Meshake for two decades. Full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional Anishinaabek lifeways and worldviews, Injichaag: My Soul in Story is “more than a memoir.”Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
By Paul Hendrickson. 2019
From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change…
the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home by a black servant gone mad. In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. With prodigious research, unique vision, and his ability to make sense of a life in ways at once unexpected, poetic, and undeniably brilliant, he has given us the defining book on Wright.Tokyo 2020 Olympics For Dummies
By Celeste Kiyoko Hall. 2020
Make the most of your 2020 Olympic adventure! If you dream of traveling to the Olympic games but feel overwhelmed…
by the thought of a trip to Japan, then Tokyo 2020 Olympics For Dummies is for you. Hundreds of thousands of international travelers will arrive in Tokyo for the next Olympics to share in the worldwide camaraderie and watch world-class athletes in 33 sports. This book is your complete authority on how to join in! Learn about travel options, safety, customs, and facts about the Olympic Games. Tokyo is an amazing destination, and you’ll be prepared for the voyage of a lifetime with knowledge of Japanese culture and trip planning tips. Plan your trip to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan Be prepared with tips on Japanese culture, customs, language, and more Learn about how the Olympic Games are structured to make the best of your time Stay stress free and have fun with international travel advice and Olympic facts! As you prepare for your once-in-a-lifetime excursion, keep this guide within easy reach!De puertas adentro (Memorias Y Biografías/taurus Ser.)
By Amalia Avia. 2004
Estas apasionantes memorias son la crónica de la transformación política, social y cultural española a lo largo del siglo XX…
a través de la vida de una maravillosa artista. Amalia Avia, figura esencial en el arte contemporáneo en España, nos abrió en estas memorias las puertas de una vida llena de contrastes, teñida de tonos oscuros pero también de luces brillantes, que se inició en Madrid, a comienzos de los años treinta, en el seno de una familia burguesa. Su primera infancia tuvo el país en guerra como fondo. La posguerra, el luto y los desfiles triunfantes inauguraron un periodo de tristeza y desconcierto y, también, una nueva etapa en el pequeño pueblo manchego en el que pasó diez años. Con firmes pinceladas realistas, la autora retrata el enorme contraste de su vida madrileña y el medio rural en los años cuarenta en el que se desarrolló su adolescencia: el culto a los muertos, los días de costura, iglesia, juegos, lectura y excursiones al monte, la cocina, la cosecha, el ganado, la matanza y las fiestas populares constituyen fascinantes relatos de memoria histórica. La vuelta a Madrid y su formación como pintora en el estudio Peña marcaron un periodo muy fértil. Su relación con otros artistas y escritores, el matrimonio con Lucio Muñoz, sus primeras exposiciones, el Círculo de Bellas Artes, la maternidad, los viajes y la oposición al Régimen marcaron el sendero que culminaría en la apertura del país a la democracia y en la madurez de Amalia Avia como mujer y como pintora. Reseñas:«Amalia Avia logró inscribirse con luz propia en la historia del arte español del siglo XX. Sus memorias no solo son un testimonio precioso sobre su propia vida y la de su generación, sino también la revelación de su rica y compleja intimidad.»Francisco Calvo Serraller, El País «Amalia Avia es la pintora de las ausencias, la amarga cronista del por aquí pasó la vida marcando su amargura e inevitable huella de dolor, como en las novelas de los maestros rusos del XIX.»Camilo José Cela «Amalia Avia fue la cronista melancólica, en grises, de un cierto Madrid de toda la vida, ese Madrid de los portales, de las tiendas antañonas, de las tabernas, de las tascas, de los garajes. Sus memorias son excelentes.»Juan Manuel Bonet «Sus memorias podrían ser un cuadro. Nada extraño si consideramos que su autora es pintora, y de las buenas. Ha elegido la sinceridad que, aliada con la sencillez, traza un retrato no ya de sí misma, sino de una etapa de la vida española que perteneció a muchos que, sin duda, se reconocerán a través de ella.»Trinidad De León-Sotelo, ABCAmazing & Extraordinary Facts - Da Vinci (Amazing & Extraordinary)
By Cynthia Phillips, Shana Priwer. 2011
A unique collection of surprising revelations and quirky stories about one of the most amazing people ever to have lived.…
This engaging volume reveals Da Vinci's phenomenal accomplishments, including mathematical discoveries, investigating the secrets of the human body, inventing a robot and even his plans to divert the entire Arno River!The Light Years: A Memoir
By Chris Rush. 2019
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American…
history"This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender." —Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times"Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he’s remembering a New Jersey of 'meatballs and Windex and hairspray' or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where 'rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees.' Read if you loved… Just Kids by Patti Smith." —Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly“As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you’ll read The Light Years with your breath held. Brutal, buoyant and wise to the tender terror of growing up, Chris Rush has written a timeless memoir of boyhood in the American wilderness.” —Emma Cline, author of The GirlsChris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush’s tongue, proclaiming: “This is sacrament. You are one of us now.”After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tucson to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels—from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence—it is a miracle he is still alive.The Light Years is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy’s story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. This is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted…
them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Raiatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook’s imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds, growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain’s art world and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation’s expansionist trajectory.Guía de Viaje de Tokio: Guia Esencial de Bolsillo a Través de Tokio
By Adidas Wilson. 2019
Tokio es, sin duda, uno de los destinos turísticos más famosos de Japón. Tiene atracciones para cada temporada, y usted…
siempre querrá volver. En primavera se puede disfrutar de las impresionantes flores de cerezo, y en otoño los colores del otoño son una vista impresionante. ¿Y, qué tal el verano? Tokio debe estar en su lista de “cosas-que-hacer-antes-de-morir” si está buscando un lugar mágico para pasar su verano, ya sea solo o con amigos o familiares. Aparte de los festivales de verano, las maravillas para disfrutar incluyen museos, calles comerciales, comida, jardines japoneses tradicionales y exuberantes parques verdes. A pesar de todas estas cosas increíbles, Tokio puede ser un reto para los extranjeros durante el verano debido al clima cálido y húmedo. Afortunadamente para usted, los consejos de esta guía le ayudarán a navegar por esta gran ciudad y a tener una experiencia impresionante.De Traidor a Herói: O falsificador de Vermeer que enganou a Holanda e os nazis
By Lázaro Droznes. 2018
A incrível história de Han van Meegeren, o pintor holandês que criou falsos Vermeers, enganou os seus pares holandeses, vendeu…
um quadro a Herman Goering e, finalmente, acabou por confessar as suas falsificações para escapar à pena de morte, quando foi acusado de alta traição. Após o julgamento, tornou-se um herói nacional por ter defraudado os nazis. Han van Meegeren era um ointor holandês que, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, pintou Vermeers melhores que os originais, enganando toda a comunidade das artes e até Herman Goering, acabando, no final, por confessar ser um falsificador para se livrar da acusação de alta traição, por ter tido negócios com o inimigo da nação. Esta ficção dramatizada baseia-se na história impresssionante de Han van Meegeren, durante os anos 1930s e a Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando conseguiu criar e vender seis falsos quadros de Vermeer e dois de Franz Hals por cerca de 100 milhões de dólares em valores atualizados. Um dos Vermeers foi comprado por Herman Goering, a nsegunda pesssoa mais importante na hierarquia do Terceiro Reich. No final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, van Meegeren foi acusado de traição ao seu país e viu-se obrigado a confessar as falsificações para salvar a sua própria vida. Esta confissão abalou a comunidade da pintura holandesa e mundial como um terramoto, já que os quadros falsificados tinham sido aceites unanimemente. Um deles, "Cristo em Emaús", era até considerado a melhor obra pintada por Vermeer. Esta ficção, baseada em eventos reais, conduz-nos a uma reflexão sobre o conceito da autenticidade na arte e a validade dos conceitos tradicionais de verdade e de beleza: um quadro deixa de ser belo quaSeis Contos Do Exterior
By Bruno Maiorana and 5 more. 2019
Este livro é uma compilação de interessantes histórias que documentam as idas e vindas da vida como estrangeiro, expatriado, imigrante,…
ou qualquer outro termo que você prefira para descrever a vida em um lugar diferente daquele onde se cresceu. As histórias são do Peru, China, Equador e Espanha;Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
By Carol Bishop-Gwyn. 2019
The unauthorized biography of Canada's most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them.She painted as if with pure…
light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no subtlety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner...) presented their marriage as a portrait of harmony and balance. But balance off the canvas rarely makes great art, and the Pratts' art was spectacular. As a youth at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Mary pursued her future husband, a prodigious art talent, and supported his determination to study painting instead of medicine. They married and removed themselves to a Newfoundland outport where his painting alone provided the means to raise a family. But as Mary's own talents became evident and she sought her own hours at the easel, when not raising their four children, and as rumours of Christopher's affair with a young model spread, the Pratts' harmonious exterior slowly cracked, to scandal in Newfoundland and fascination across the country. A marriage ended, and gave way to a furious competition for dominance in Canadian art.How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s…
2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.Thailand: Volume I (How to... #30)
By Owen Jones. 2019
Hallo und danke, dass Sie dieses E-Book mit dem Namen 'Thailand: Volume I’ gekauft haben. Ich hoffe, dass Sie den…
Inhalt hilfreich, nützlich und profitable finden. Die Informationen in diesem E-Book über verschiedene Aspekte Thailands und dem Leben in Thailand sind auf 15 Kapitel mit jeweils 500-600 Wörtern aufgeteilt. Ich hoffe, dass es diejenigen, die Thailand bereits besucht haben, jemanden kennen, der Thailand besucht hat oder diejenigen, die einen Besuch planen, interessiert. Als ein zusätzlicher Bonus gebe ich Ihnen die Erlaubnis, den Inhalt auf Ihrer eigenen Webseiten oder Ihren Blogs/Newslettern zu nutzen, obwohl ich es besser fände, wenn Sie erst alles mit Ihren eigenen Worten umschreiben würden. Sie können das Buch ebenfalls aufteilen und die Artikel weiterverkaufen. Das einzige Recht, welches Sie tatsächlich nicht haben, ist es, das Buch so wie Sie es erhalten haben, weiterzugeben. Wenn Sie Anmerkungen haben, lassen Sie sie bitte an der Stelle, wo Sie das Buch gekauft haben. Noch einmal Danke, dass Sie das Buch gekauft haben. MfG, Owen JonesI've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
By Peter McGough. 2019
Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott.…
Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy both their lives. Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at school, McGough attended art school in New York, dropped out, and took out jobs in clubs, where he met McDermott. Dazzled by McDermott, whom he found fascinating and worldly, McGough agreed to collaborate with him not only on their art but also in McDermott’s very entertaining Victorian lifestyle. McGough evokes the rank and seedy East Village of that time, where he encountered Keith Haring, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Jacqueline and Julian Schnabel, among many others. Nights were spent at the Ninth Circle, Danceteria, and Studio 54; going to openings at the FUN Gallery; or visiting friends in the Chelsea Hotel. By the mid-1980s, McDermott & McGough were hugely successful, showing at three Whitney Biennials, represented by the best galleries here and abroad, and known for their painting, photography and “time experiment” interiors. Then, overnight, it was all gone. And one day in the mid-1990s, McGough would find that he, like so many of his friends, had been diagnosed with AIDS. I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going is a compelling memoir for our time, told with humor and compassion, about how lives can become completely entwined even in failure and what it costs to reemerge, phoenix-like, and carry on.El retablo rojo: Vida, obra y milagros de Ofelia Guilmain
By Carlos Pascual. 2019
Carlos Pascual desnuda el alma de Ofelia Guilmain para presentárnosla tal y como fue en realidad: Una mujer de carne…
y teatro. Una joven se abre paso entre los escombros que inundan aquella plaza de Valencia, devastada por los bombardeos. Con calma, sube a un tablado. Cierra los ojos, extiende las manos y comienza a hilvanar algunos poemas de guerra con una voz tan diáfana y sonora que impone silencio a la multitud de desamparados que la escuchan. El nombre de esa muchacha de catorce años es Ofelia Guilmain. Carlos Pascual, novelista y dramaturgo, hombre de letras y escenarios, hace suya la voz de la primera actriz Ofelia Guilmain para narrar la extraordinaria y trágica epopeya que fue su vida; la pérdida de un país que se desmoronaba en una cruenta Guerra Civil y la solidaria mano que México ofreció a los miles de refugiados republicanos que, en 1939, llegaron a nuestras tierras a enriquecer nuestra cultura, nuestra ciencia y tecnología. Por entre las páginas de El retablo rojo corren, además de la gracia y el encanto de la Guilmain, las figuras cimeras de Luis Buñuel, Siqueiros, León Felipe, Agustín Lara, Salvador Novo... todos bajo el gobierno de una narrativa implacable, de gran belleza, sin pausas, sobrecogedora y por momentos, hilarante.