De Blancanieves a Kurosawa

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

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 obra de Efrn Hernndez (1904-1958) no es muy vasta; el presente volumen recoge sus poemas, una novela corta, sus cuentos y un fragmento de novela. La recopilacin, proveniente de publicaciones peridicas, estuvo a cargo de Luis Mario Schneider, quien tambin prepar una biografa. Se incluye una nota inicial de Al Chumacero, que ayuda a entender la personalidad y la importancia literaria de este autor.

Paula es insoportable. Siempre quiere ser la primera en verlo todo, en tenerlo todo y en enterarse de todo. Y si no consigue lo que quiere, se pone a gritar tan fuerte que no hay quien lo aguante. Incluso los vecinos tienen que huir de sus casas. Hasta que un día ya no puede gritar más.