Palenque (Colombia)

"Annotated catalogue of the collection of antique pieces of Mesopotamian, Egyptian,Greek, Etruscan and Roman art from the private collection of Dr. Joaquín GumáHerrera, Count of Lagunillas (b. Cuba 1909-1980), some donations of the Cuban ScienceAcademy and Dr. Antonio Nieto and at present part of the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts.The catalogue includes scientific research contributions from three prestigious specialists: AymeChcuri for the section devoted to Egypt; doctor Maria Castro Miranda for the Greek classicobjects and philologist Ana Vilma Castellanos Bisset with texts on the...

This volume presents varied approaches concerning the relation between cinema and politics which focus on policies, eras, countries, mainstream and art cinema productions, transnational examples, changing narratives and identities. Both cinema and politics have actors and directors for their scenes, and in this sense their discourses intermingle. The performances of the “actors/actresses” in both arenas attract particular attention. The actors, directors, and producers with ‘hyphenated/creolised/hybrid identities’ such as German-Turks, directors of Balkan cinema, or Italian filmmakers ...

Obra lúcida, sugestiva, de estilo preciso y sobrio, que está aquí para conducir, enseñar y, lo más importante, iluminar áreas del terreno artístico que habían permanecido en penumbra y que, al descubrirlas, nos renuevan la fe en lo que los costarricenses hemos sido capaces de crear. Si la obra de Carlos Francisco Echeverría logra todo es porque su autor sabe escudriñar en el espíritu de cada artista que menciona, además de establecer puntos de referencia, políticos y sociales, que necesariamente ubican al lector en determinada situación o circunstancia que rodea la personalidad...

Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). A pivotal figure in the postminimalist generation who was also the son of a prominent Surrealist, Matta-Clark was a leader in the downtown artists' community in New York in the 1970s, and is widely seen as a pioneer of what has come to be known as social practice art. He is celebrated for his “anarchitectural” environments and performances, and the films, photographs, drawings, and sculptural fragments with which...