Iconofagias, Distopías y Farsas

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Autor vychází z literární teorie a studuje ženské postavy coby čtenářky v realistickém a naturalistickém románu z pohledu různých literárních škol. Konkrétně se zaměřil na díla tří španělských autorů: Leopoldo Alas Clarin, Benito Pérez Galdós a Emilia Pardo Bazán. Jejich texty totiž poskytují dostatečný vzorek k dekódování různých interakcí mezi knihou a ženou coby čtenářkou.

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...

Visión del cine norteamericano y sus protagonistas desde la época muda hasta los años 70, que, acompañada de un abundante material gráfico, analiza algunos de sus géneros más importantes, el papel que debe desempeñar el director, y las películas que más han influido en la obra de Scorsese.