El Greco en su IV Centenario: Patrimonio hispánico y diálogo intercultural

El 1989 pels carrers de Nova York van aparèixer grans anuncis signats per les Guerrillas Girls, un grup d'artistes anònimes que representen les puntes mediàtiques d'un llarg període de conflictes i denúncies respecte al silenci i la invisibilitat de les dones en les arts. A la tradicional pregunta sobre l'escassesa de les grans artistes, una historiadora de l'art ha contestat recordant l'existència d'una manca anàloga de grans pianistes de jazz lituans o de grans tennistes esquimals. A part de la provocació, es tracta d'entendre si i fins a quin punt les asimetries de gènere...

'Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America' evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of...

Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on 20th-century art. Color reproductions of Picasso's masterpieces are...

Con los volúmenes de esta colección se pretende elaborar un pequeño compendio de todos los conocimientos básicos -- técnicos, teóricos y prácticos -- que necesita toda persona que quiera empezar a pintar. Cada libro, cuya maqueta y diagramación han sido pensadas a manera de magazine, está dedicado a una técnica concreta (acuarela, óleo, pastel, etc.) o a un tema determinado (mezcla de colores, figura, . . . ) y constituye una pequeña guía, una introducción básica, donde el lector encontrará las explicaciones necesarias para conocer lo más elemental y así poder, sin miedo,...