El Bosco al desnudo

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

The German artistic revolution known as expressionism is the subject of this large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series. The colorful survey samples all of the variations on the movement, from the Brü cke Group to the Viennese school, and showcases its greatest artists, including Marc, Kandinsky, Kirchner, and Nolde.

Este libro es el resultado del esfuerzo conjunto de un equipo de investigadores de la Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), y es la continuidad del libro denominado “Integración del modelo de Telesalud y la estrategia de Atención Primaria en Salud”, que publicó la misma Escuela en el año 2015, para lo cual invitamos al público en general a aprovechar la oportunidad de leerlo, como un primer paso en el entendimiento de conceptos básicos y necesarios de este nuevo trabajo académico. Es importante mencionar, antes de continuar que, al ...