Seniloquium

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

Con un acento en el arte, esta publicación recoge las experiencias participativas exploradas en Mirada de Barrio, un proyecto de investigación-acción iniciado por el área de Programas Públicos del Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA), junto a vecinas y vecinos del Barrio República en Santiago de Chile. Desde la reflexión y las prácticas artísticas, se comparten los procesos de diseño y creación colectiva, los lazos comunitarios y las acciones para poder imaginar y transformar el territorio. Combinando la teoría y la práctica, los pensamientos y el hacer en conjunto,...

Colombian-born painter Fanny Sanín (born 1938) has dedicated a long, prolific career to the exploration of geometric abstraction; her oeuvre is characterized by large-scale canvases depicting hard-edge geometric compositions in vibrant color configurations. Over the past five decades, Sanín has exhibited widely, mainly in Latin America and the United States (where she has lived since the 1970s, in New York), positioning herself as one of Latin America's most extraordinary colorists. This publication is a long-overdue comprehensive monograph on this pioneering painter. Featuring...

Esta investigación narra la historia del pueblo colonial de "Barrancas de San Nicolás de Tolentino"; unpueblo ubicado al norte del Caribe Colombiano a las orillas de la sabana del Río de la Gran Magdalena yla desembocadura del canal de la Piña. Barrancas de San Nicolás era un pueblo de doctrina catolicacristiana proveniente del Virreinato de la Nueva Granada de España, Municipio de Barlovento, Partido deTierradentro, cerca de una de las ciudades españolas más importantes para la Corona: Cartagena deIndias. La población del pueblo era de una comunidad en su mayoría de españoles...