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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 es un libro que puede ser leído muchas veces y de distintas maneras. Tal como lo plantea el historiador Tomás Straka, “podemos avizorar que sus entregas constituyen un importante testimonio histórico que en un futuro será muy valorado para impulsar nuestra actualidad, o al menos una determinada sensibilidad y unos determinados valores frente a la misma’’.

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...

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