El Silencio en la Palabra

Vidas de artistas y otras narrativas biográficas compila dieciocho estudios de investigadores nacionales e internacionales que, teniendo como eje la conmemoración del quinto centenario del nacimiento del arquitecto, pintor y tratadista Giorgio Vasari, dan a la narrativa biográfica el valor de instrumento de conocimiento en el campo de la historia del arte. Los ejemplos analizados, que abarcan desde el Renacimiento hasta el siglo xx, muestran hasta qué punto la biografía, a pesar de que en ocasiones anula la perspectiva requerida por las investigaciones históricas, resulta fundamental...

La compilación que presentamos en este momento reúne fragmentos de pronunciamientos esenciales del líder de la Revolución relacionados con sus ideas acerca de África, el antirracismo y la solidaridad que aparecen diseminados en numerosos de sus discursos, escritos, conversaciones, entrevistas y reflexiones.

"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 ...

"It deals witb a distinguished career which led the Colombian artist from her early stage of "windows" and "doors" to a series of "atmospheres"--In which she seems to leap through the frames of her earlier paintings to find herself before the light that is on the other side and was merely hinted at before. The white canvases of her "atmospheres" - luminous, sparkling and full of matter - in turn fulfill their cycle, opening the way for a further stage which is marked by the recuperatian of the object and a new and fresh approach to nature.