III Jornada de Arquitectura y Fotografía 2013

Título: “El Gran Hotel La Paz”. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista HISTÓRICA del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba – ISSN: 1793-5748. Año: agosto de 2012.

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Long before the arrival of Hernn Corts, birds, serpents, the sun and moon, and human sacrifices figured prominently in the rituals and daily spiritual life of the inhabitants of todays Mexico. In the early sixteenth century, Roman Catholic missionaries began arriving in the area of TenochtitlanMexico Cityto convert the native Mexica to Christianity. The priests met with limited success until 1531, the year Juan Diego, a poor Mexica, first encountered the vision of the Heavenly Lady, now known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.Guadalupe is a lavishly illustrated history of Mexico's religious...

En el setenta aniversario de la fundación del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, se publica esta selección de textos de su fundador, el pintor chileno Marco Aurelio Bontá Costa. Se trata de transcripciones directas de los originales, sin correcciones más allá de los errores tipográficos, con las que vuelven al lector textos desaparecidos que narran una etapa vital del arte chileno a mano de uno de sus protagonistas principales.