Introducción a la Historia del Arte

La lectura de este libro nos remite directamente a la problemática de la estética de nuestro tiempo y abre a nuestra consideración vastas regiones artísticas que la tradición clásica había ocluido o malinterpretado.

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Estos tres volúmenes recogen los frutos del VI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, celebrado en Madrid, durante septiembre y octubre de 2003. En total, nueve ponencias plenarias, artículos de tres mesas redondas y más de ciento cincuenta comunicaciones repartidas a lo largo de 3.128 páginas.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...