Docentes hiperdiscursivos

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

Northeast of Catamarca, Argentina, there is a set of shelters and caves located in the rainforest with rock art with virtually no background. This book presents a study and systematic analysis of the plastic-thematic-compositional repertoire of the rock art sites of ‘Los Algarrobales’ and their spatial and temporal distribution.

The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV) celebrated its first centennial in December of 2011. The museum and the building that houses it has endured transformations and different names throughout these 100 years. This is the first time that the history of the Museum is presented in a single volume; until now only scattered documentation, catalogues, folders and press releases existed. The editorial proposal included the participation of three former directors -Ángel Kalenberg, Jacqueline Lacasa and Mario Sagradini- that gave testimony of their experience, which accounts for forty-one...

Esta obra es ideal e indispensable para todos los interesados en obtener una amplia perspectiva contemporánea del arte de dibujar la figura humana. Diez interesantes lecciones, en las que se analizan obras maestras conocidas mundialmente y se explora la actitud de cada uno de los artistas, así como sus conocimientos y su modo de emplear la anatomía. Más de 250 fotografías inéditas y más de cien dibujos para revelar el cuerpo humano.