Sebastián Salazar Bondy: Pasión por la cultura

Desde su nacimiento, Unión Radio, instalada en la Gran Vía, fue la voz y el reflejo de una época apasionante, de gran efervescencia creativa, de cambios políticos y sociales. En sus estudios coincidieron Gómez de la Serna, Benavente, Jardiel Poncela, García Lorca, Alberti, Joaquín Turina, Igor Stravinsky, Miguel Fleta, los Halffter, Victoria Kent, Clara Campoamor, La Argentinita y muchos otros, pero también personajes ahora olvidados que concibieron muchos de los géneros de la radio de hoy. Su micrófono recogió en directo la llegada de la Segunda República, y ni un solo día...

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...

"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.

This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R. Cohen, Alexia Duchowny, Dora Mancheva, Aitor Garcia Moreno, Elaine R. Miller, Aldina Quintana, Samuel G. Armistead, Julia R. Lieberman, Ronnie Perelis, Angel Berenguer Amador, Messod Salama, Rena Molho, Rivka Havassy, Maria Esformes and Matilde...