Los secretos de la luz

Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a medida que iban envejeciendo y desapareciendo los grandes maestros de la llamada Escuela de París, una oleada de jóvenes pintores se aprestaba a sucederles. Gracias a ellos, la pintura española sigue gozando de un puesto de honor en el arte universal, como se verá en este tema.

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...

Estudio que pone de manifiesto la continua interdependencia existente entre el arte más avanzado y la moderna cultura de masas, desde el París de mediados del siglo XIX hasta los más recientes revivals del arte conceptual de los noventa.

The articles included in this collection cover a wide range of literatures and topics, but most of them address the ways in which ethnic writers create themselves in opposition and resistance to the mainstream. These narratives of opposition and resistance do not equate protest narratives but represent a consciously subversive effort. There is agency and creativity in the confrontation, for the majority of the these narratives are not only demystifying an old world and order but creating a new one; there narratives are not reproducing as much as producing and forging culture and literature....