Observatorios culturales

¿Y QUÉ SIGNIFICA REALMENTE ACCESIBILIDAD? Se dice comúnmente, ”es un hombre (o una mujer) educado(a)…”, porque sigue las reglas y costumbres sociales aceptadas. Una de las grandes premisas de la educación, más allá de informar, es formar. Educación según el Nuevo Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado (1) es “Acción de desarrollar las facultades físicas, intelectuales y morales”, más allá del acto de instruir. Asimismo es el acto de mostrar “conocimiento de los usos de la sociedad”

The Colombian home during the Republican era is a world yet to be discovered. Many of its architectural and ornamental aspects have lingered on fragmentarily in people's memory, and period furniture is now a prized booty for antique hunters. This book reinstates the image of the Republican home as a composite of architecture, ornamentation, furniture and objects, which created beautiful and charming domestic environments, designed for something more than comfort. The book bears witness to a moment in Colombian history, and also pays tribute to hundreds of craftsmen, most of them unknown, who...

Francisco de la Maza nos lleva por un recorrido en el M xico del siglo XVII: la ciudad y sus habitantes, las inundaciones, la Universidad, los conventos, parroquias y hospitales, pasan revista en este libro que, dentro de su concisi n, ofrece el ameno retrato de un siglo.

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...