1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005599960403321

Autore

Riegl, Alois <1858-1905>

Titolo

Grammatica storica delle arti figurative / Alois Riegl ; a cura di Francesca Diano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna, : Cappelli, c1983

Descrizione fisica

413 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Nuova Universale Cappelli Studio ; 19

Disciplina

709

Locazione

FLFBC

FARBC

Collocazione

701.18 RIEA 01

FONDO ROSSI 730

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815432403321

Autore

Beidler Philip D.

Titolo

The island called paradise : Cuba in history, literature, and the arts / / Philip D. Beidler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8743-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

972.91

Soggetti

National characteristics, Cuban

Cuba In popular culture

Cuba In literature

Cuba In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Cuba and the imagination -- Romancing Cecilia Valdes -- Un militar espanol de origen venezolano -- Mambises in whiteface -- The ghost of Walker Evans -- Ignacio Pineiro, George Gershwin, and the Schillinger system -- The secret life of Ricky Ricardo -- Good neighbor Batista -- The two Ernestos -- Steverino in Gangsterland -- Why no one in Havana speaks of Graham Greene -- Inspector Renko on the Malecon -- The example of Yoani Sanchez -- Conclusion : the autumn of the comandante.

Sommario/riassunto

A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa. In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery of the vast, rich, and astonishing history of the island of Cuba and the interrelatedness of Cuba and the U.S. Cuba first entered Beidler's consciousness in the early 1960's when he watched with mesmerized anxiety the televised reports of the Cuban missile crisis, a conflict that reduced a...