En defensa de la Tauromaquia

"The Artist as Producer confronts the problem of making a politics with art. Gough's balanced rigor in mining obscure archives on the one hand, while performing brilliant readings of recalcitrant artworks on the other gives her account of Constructivism's utopian promise and less-than-utopian outcome great texture. She has produced something very rare: an art-historical study that not only adds to our knowledge but captures the intense poignancy of modern art's serious ambition to undertake a revolution of—and with—form."—David Joselit, Professor, History of Art, Yale University "To see ...

Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and often comical works. Pop Art’s profound influence on contemporary art and culture remains prominent today. Nowhere else can you find so much Pop Art in such a compact, stylish book. Featured artists include - Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Allan Jones, Allan d'Arcangelo, Wayne Thiebaud, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Phillips, George Segal, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper...

David and his family travel to Venice for Carnival. At their hotel are also a couple of strange older persons. A conversation about buying a Picasso painting alert David and his sister, Sissel, that something strange is about to happen.

En cualquier intento de expresión podemos distinguir tres niveles: el nivel de la comunicación, el del significado, que permanece siempre en un plano simbólico, en el plano de los signos, y el nivel que R. Barthes llama de la significancia. Pero en el sentido simbólico, el que permanece a nivel de signos, se puede distinguir dos facetas en cierto modo contradictorias: la primera es intencional (no es ni más ni menos que lo que ha querido decir el autor), como extraída de un léxico general de los símbolos; es un sentido claro y patente que no necesita exégesis de ningún género, es...