Proyectando Las Américas

A stunning presentation of works by contemporary Chinese artists, from the collection of the Swiss diplomat Uli Sigg, one of the worlds most influential collectors of Chinese contemporary art. This book reflects on the current state of art in China today through a selection of over 50 works by different artists produced between 1986 and 2006 a period of enormous economic and social change in the country with worldwide implications. This book shows Chinese avant-garde art against the backdrop of Chinas radical social and economic changes. Many of the works reveal the tension between current...

"This volume seeks to delineate the history of the production, dissemination, and reception of texts from the earliest pictograms of the mid-4th millennium to recent developments in electronic books."--P. xi.

In 1313, a boy named Grimpow discovers the frozen body of a man carrying an enigmatic stone that will lead him on a quest that will change his life forever.

La vida de las superheroínas ha sido dura. No se lo pusieron fácil. Desde sus inicios han tenido que luchar contra viento y marea para sobrevivir. Contra los prejuicios, contra el deseo de sexualizarlas, la censura, el machismo, las modas, las ventas, etc. Nacieron para satisfacer los deseos de los lectores masculinos pero, año tras año, han conseguido encontrar su propio camino, hacerse un hueco, agarrarse con uñas y dientes para sobrevivir. Este libro -una auténtica novedad en su género- hace un repaso de las principales superheroínas que han existido durante décadas en el mundo de ...