Conquista y Conversión

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

"Catalogue of 129 works by twenty-five San Antonio artists, shown in three consecutive exhibitions, with statements by the artists. Foreword by John A. Mahey; statement on the exhibition by Pedro A. Rodriguez; introduction by Jim Edwards and Kathy Vargas."--AbeBooks.

Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked border cities, and is reinvented according to the shifting interests of artists and public institutions in Mexico. This most recent version of inSITE reconfigures...

Based on the idea that all forms of knowledge are interconnected and that the human mind weaves them together naturally, this book encourages the incorporation of art education into all other forms of education instead of keeping them separate and compartmentalized. It urges parents and teachers to make art education an integral part of children's daily lives, arguing that by combining various disciplines, such as health and photography or geometry and painting, children will develop into smarter and more creative individuals. By turning art into a part of both playtime and their education,...

Documental y vanguardia. Dos términos cuya conjunción, al menos en el terreno de lo cinematográfico, siempre ha resultado conflictiva. No-ficción y experimentación son, sin embargo, dos vocablos que resultarían menos problemáticos a la luz de los últimos desarrollos teóricos para referirnos a lo mismo. Sea como fuere, con la edición de este libro, la intención de los autores es poner al día algunas de las cuestiones que dicha confluencia ha generado y, de paso, plantear otras nuevas que tienen que ver con las últimas realidades del (pos)cine. En las dos partes en las que se ha...