Geobibliotecas

Estudio de las relaciones entre cultura y sociedad en el marco del debate producido a partir de los años sesenta, que presta a los medios de comunicación de masas y a las clases populares la misma atención hasta el momento reservada a la cultura erudita, difuminando las fronteras entre disciplinas académicas y cuestionando los límites políticos de los asuntos culturales.

"Featuring the work of twenty artists, this bilingual volume includes several artists' writings ... about artist-run exhibition spaces"--P. [4] of cover.

Famous for having elevated the status of landscape painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is also considered to be the greatest 16th-century Flemish master of scenes from ordinary life. This volume presents a collection of his work, including 12 masterpieces.

Pleasantly plump With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero (b.1932) began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at a time when his contemporaries were fervently rejecting figurative work in favor of abstraction. More recently he has expanded into sculpture, creating delightful large-scale bronze works portraying the same sorts of voluminous figures he so loved to paint. Like the writings of Gabriel García Márquez or the music of Astor Piazzola, Botero's work has come to represent modern Latin American culture....