Dibujar Animales

Frente al agotamiento del entusiasmo por el arte contemporáneo que sí había en los años 2000, este ensayo busca una respuesta en relecturas de artistas rosarinos que en los años 50 tramaron un lugar imaginario, con espíritu localista y retrospectivo.

INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY. HOW DO THE OBJECTS IN A STILL LIFE REFLECT THE CUSTOMS, IDEAS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE TIME? THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH NORBERT SCHNEIDER ASKS IN THIS BOOK. THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND THE 17TH CENTURY WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE HEYDAY OF THE STILL LIFE. IT IS AN ART FORM WHICH GIVES US VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS PEOPLE'S NOTIONS OF DEATH. STILL LIFES CHART THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE AS WELL AS THE GRADUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE MEDIAEVAL CONCEPT OF THE...

Katharine Kuh ingreso al Instituto de Arte de Chicago en 1943 y dedico dos decadas a escribir critica de arte contemporaneo. Galerista, conservadora, curadora y coleccionista, creia que para comprender cabalmente una obra y transmitirla al publico habia que tener una total implicacion. Asi, guardo familiaridad con pintores como Leger, Rothko, Kline y Hopper, arquitectos como Mies van der Rohe y escultores como Constantin Brancusi. A ese mundo artistico e intelectual estan dedicadas estas memorias, escritas por la autora a los ochenta y siete anos y completadas a su muerte por Avis Berman, su...

Rose is a girl who can travel thanks to her imagination. She travels to Kilamanjaro where she meets a boy, Festo, who presents her to the wizard of his tribe. The story is about the adventures and dangers they encounter looking for her missing father.