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Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

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...

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...

Durante siglos la edición ha cambiado muy poco. El editor ha tenido siempre un pie en el territorio de la cultura y otro en el de los negocios. Cualquiera que incursione en la actividad editorial debe saber conjugar, a partes iguales, intuición para configurar un catálogo atractivo y planificación para hacer económicamente sostenible su empresa. Con la irrupción de lo digital, las exigencias para el editor se han multiplicado. A la cadena de valor del libro impreso, se ha sumado lo que algunos expertos han llamado la red de valor del libro digital, en la que muchos procesos han cambiado ...