Madrid ayer y hoy

Es un atractivo y original estudio que se centra en uno de los aspectos menos conocido y más sugerente de la célebre escuela alemana de la Bauhaus (1919-1933): su alumnado femenino. El libro abarca desde la situación curiosa y paradójica de este colectivo, hasta la producción fotográfica singular, una vez alcanzada la notoriedad, de artistas de la talla de Gertrud Arndt, Florence Henri, Lucia Moholy, Grete Stern o Marianne Brandt.

"Follows a fictional Sheffield band from Mexico, in the style of legendary magazine 'The Face' ... The context of the event [Art Sheffield 05] was 'Spectator T', a fictitious art goer without exposure to contemporary aesthetics, and the idea was to present artworks that would challenge this person's preconceived ideas about art. Thus, Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico ... where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played ...

A través de una selección de fotografías de artistas contemporáneos que viven o trabajan en Andalucía, se exploran las diferentes representaciones de la realidad social y cultural sobre temas como la inmigración, la discriminación sexual y de género, la contaminación o la recuperación de la memoria.

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...