Proyectando Las Américas

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...

Durante los siglos xvi y xvii, la monarquía hispánica gobierna, con relaciones, guerras y dominaciones, los reinos de Nápoles y Sicilia, y los convertirá en sendos virreinatos, trasladando la administración territorial española fusionada con elementos nativos. Este tercer volumen de la serie Triunfos Barrocos mantiene el refinamiento y preciosismo de las ediciones anteriores, y pone a disposición de los estudiosos un bellísimo conjunto de imágenes festivas de los grandes reinos del sur de la península itálica que, durante dos siglos, unieron sus destinos a los de la corona...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

A close-up look at the life and work of the legendary painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn is set against the backdrop of the artistic and intellectual developments of seventeenth-century Europe and complemented by lush, full-color reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. (Fine Arts)