Un Tesoro lleno de Esperanza

Study, inventory and catalogue of the collection of the important colonial art collection of the museum. The collections contains some of the most important works in Mexico included a 1765 painting by Miguel Cabrera. Each piece is studied in detail with an analysis of the symbolism and iconography. An excellent reference with texts by 11 art historians.

Este libro es una coleccion de ensayos sobre el sujeto exotico, ese que nos provoca atraccion y al mismo tiempo rechazo. El sujeto exotico, nos dice Weisz, representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad asi resulta un estimulo para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzaldua, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajtin, Said y Derrida, los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la...

Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.

One day some stretched-out gentlemen come and ask a father to be king. It seems a good opportunity, but in the end one must choose between being king and being a father. In a simple story, the authors invite us to reflect on the relationship of fathers and sons.