Gaudí (Enciclopedia del arte)

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...

Para quienes se dedican al arte, la luz puede convertirse en un poder misterioso y fascinador. El carácter visionario de la luz radica en su cualidad numinosa, porque no es la luz óptica lo que se aborda aquí, sino Aquello que a través de ella se manifiesta. Ante una realidad que solo es percibida tenuemente, la luz adquiere su verdadera significación desde la experiencia visionaria y la creación artística. Este libro presenta un estudio exhaustivo sobre el fenómeno de la inspiración, entendido como un desplazamiento de acceso a lo visionario y su posterior traducción en...

Esta compilación reúne valiosas contribuciones de investigadores y académicos que presentan un rico panorama de las distintas manifestaciones culturales y artísticas de Tonalá, que nos invitan a comprender, reconstruir y valorar el imaginario de nuestro pasado y su importancia actual.

Number 13 of the series gets together 2 thesis submitted for the degree of the Masters in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, focused on the relationship between the political discourse and how Columbian art was critically interpreted in different epochs. Lleras examines the state involvement in art through the works of Carlos Correa and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others while Jaramillo documents the plastic language used by Marco Ospina, Enrique Grau, and Alejandro Obregón amongst others who incorporated European avant-garde elements to become pioneer artists of modernism in Colombia.