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Living in a cramped space where Beverly Hills and Calcutta meet every day, the artists gathered here explore the tension between wealth and poverty, among progress, stagnation, and improvisation, and between the violence and civility that animates the vibrant center that is Mexico City. Compounding the complexity of urban living, high rates of kidnapping, murder and pollution become a daily threat. For the rich, the body becomes an object to be cared for, protected, even exchanged for ransom, while, for an underclass of day laborers, homeless people, and prostitutes, survival depends on...

Con la revolución de las comunicaciones ha muerto el género epistolar, o todo en él ha cambiado. Si el género epistolar cambia con las condiciones sociales, más rápidamente aún que los demás géneros, es por su mayor dependencia de las costumbres de cada época. Sin el estudio de las cartas, la cultura, la historia, la biografía presentan zonas de silencio o carecen de explicación.

Il volume è inserito nella serie degli atti del XXIV Congresso internazionale di storia dell'arte (C.I.H.A.) organizzato in Bologna dal 10 al 18 settembre 1979.

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes, and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use, and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods, and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by...