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"A richly illustrated pamphlet details life and accomplishments of one of Argentina's first collectors of European art. Del Valle (1845-96) had comprehensive tastes and his collection ran the gamut from Renaissance Spanish portraits to an 'arlequin dansant' by Degas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Este libro analiza el pensamiento político de Octavio Paz y busca sus raíces en dos tradiciones a veces antagónicas: el liberalismo y el romanticismo. Busca en el núcleo de su filosofía política más que en la toma de posiciones que Paz hizo respecto a diversos asuntos de su época, para tratar de comprender su ideario. Enfoque novedoso de temas como los vínculos entre arte y política y el papel del intelectual en el escenario contemporáneo.

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...

Here we find the more physical approach to the craft of filmmaking: the famous and anonymous artists, enlightened or overshadowed by the spotlight. In the beginning it was just words, pure text. Then, facing the camera, it's time for a discontinuous action that will make sense on the editing table. Then, comes the viewer. An English teacher finds out that John Lennon is in Germany. He wants to know why and from there lines up his trip. The two are on their way: both fleeing something, and so begins the story of this great book.