Nuestra Señora de la Antigua

El texto se centra en el arte occidental y en el Próximo Oriente, intentando responder a las necesidades de los actuales planes de estudio del grado en Historia del Arte de las universidades, y más concretamente el de la UNED. Los trece capítulos de este libro se agrupan en cuatro grandes partes: primer arte cristiano y el arte bizantino, las distintas manifestaciones del Islam oriental y occidental hasta el siglo XII, la tercera parte incluye las manifestaciones desarrolladas en el Occidente durante la Alta Edad Media, y la cuarta parte se centra en el estudio del arte románico. Esta...

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...

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

Investigación científica sobre la configuración de la empresa informativa en cuanto integradora de diferentes empresas de medios de comunicación, y se analiza conceptualmente el mercado de la información.