Historia de la estética y de la teoría del arte

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

Aimed at students not originally from Spain, this reference offers an overview of Spanish art history, emphasizing those periods and artists that have been major influences in universal art. The pages in this book summarize and discuss the prehistory and history of Spanish art from Altamira to the end of the 20th century. With a perspective that avoids the academic and seeks clarity, this book can serve anyone interested in Spanish art, for it explains its nuances with a rigor and simplicity that facilitate and inspire an enjoyment of its beauty. Dirigido a estudiantes no españoles, esta...

Esta notable obra transita por los documentos autobiográficos más representativos de Hispanoamérica: revisa los Recuerdos de provincia de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; la Autobiografía de Victoria Ocampo, y el Ulises criollo de José Vasconcelos, entre otras obras, para ofrecer al público una perspectiva renovadora de los escritos de vida, verdadera conmemoración ritual de las existencias personales, en donde las reliquias de una persona se secularizan y se representan como sucesos compartidos que se desarrollan en la fabulación del Yo.

Sus relatos conmueven profundamente porque ofrecen la filosofía sensible y generosa de la vida y traen a la memoria recuerdos de lo que se supone que es el mundo, de lo que debe ser, de lo que es real.