Manual de Stand Up

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,...

Colecci n de ensayos de Caillois alrededor del psicoan lisis, el marxismo y, en el texto m s extenso, la novela policiaca y sus consecuencias sociales y literarias.

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes, and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use, and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods, and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by...

“La vida de don Diego Velázquez de Silva”, incluida por Antonio Palomino dentro de su Parnaso pintoresco laureado español (Madrid, 1724) como el punto culminante de la pintura española, es la primera biografía del pintor que ha llegado hasta nosotros. La presente edición, acompañada de un importante aparato de notas, es la primera edición crítica publicada hasta el momento de uno de los textos fundamentales para acercarse a la vida y a la obra del pintor sevillano pues, aunque Palomino no llegó a conocerle, contó con un material excepcional para realizar su trabajo: la...