Abracadabra

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,...

Respuestas cinematográficas a la crisis económica española en el siglo XXI es un volumen que recoge estudios críticos sobre la representación fílmica de la reciente crisis económica en España y Latinoamérica. Los ensayos examinan el impacto social de la recesión financiera desde distintos aspectos, como la burbuja inmobiliaria y la especulación, los desahucios, el desempleo, la inmigración y la emigración forzada, así como la crisis de identidad que afecta no solo a los jóvenes, sino a la sociedad española en su conjunto. Dicha temática se analiza a través de diversos...

The exquisite still lifes of Alberto Iriarte (1920-1993), known as Mefisto, have remained Colombia's best kept artistic secret of the 20th century, despite having been exhibited in Paris, Barranquilla, and Bogotá. Nonetheless, Colombian art history cannot fail to honor Mefisto as one of its most influential painters. This book displays the complete selection of his strange and beautiful still life paintings, collected together for the first time. Las naturalezas muertas pintadas por Alberto Iriarte (1920-1993), llamado Mefisto, continúan siendo las obras colombianas más secretas del siglo...

One of several books with the same title about an exhibition on installation art held at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas from November 1995 to March 1996 by a group of international artists.