Soberbia

New volume in important series on Argentinean art. The first to be published since 2005. Covers the middle part of the 20th century with a large section on photography. A basic reference for art from Argentina.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

El color, fuente de intensas experiencias sensoriales, es tambien vehiculo de la transmision cultural. En "Color y cultura," John Gage muestra como la percepcion del color, en apariencia inmediata y atemporal, tiene una dimension historica. El estudio, centrado en la historia del arte, nos remite a un horizonte mas amplio, vinculando la obra de los artistas a la investigacion cientifica, la filosofia o la mentalidad religiosa. El autor reconstruye, con impresionante erudicion, los avatares de la teoria y la practica del color desde la Antiguedad. Sucesivamente desfilan los terminos y teorias...

Passolini y su obra fue publicado originariamente en 1965 en tres números monográficos de la revista Temas de Cine (nº 36, 37 y 38), dirigida por el propio Félix Martialay y editada por Film Ideal.