Observatorio Institucional Alianza del Pacífico 2020

"Pocket version synthesis of other books by the author on the same subject. In four chapters (precolumbian, colonial, republican, and 20th century), author gives a capsulated summary of what Ecuadorian art has been, from the past to the present, in a simple style intentionally suitable for high school students, hence its interest. Complemented with a short bibliography and a glossary of terms for those unfamiliar with the artistic and architectural field"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

La perspectiva fue una de las invenciones más importantes del Renacimiento. Con ella, el arte occidental experimentó el mayor viraje de toda su historia. La imagen en perspectiva es hoy omnipresente y ha sido exportada al mundo entero. Pero su dominio nos hace olvidar que en modo alguno reproduce nuestra visión natural. El mundo islámico conoce una mirada completamente distinta, que se expresa claramente en su arte. A diferencia de la imagen occidental, el arte islámico no está ligado a ninguna posición personal en el mundo y trata de aproximarse a algo que es en sí irrepresentable....

One day a young shepherd boy, Malif, finds a baby wolf and decides to take care it even though his uncle disapproves.

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...