TvBoy: la calle es mi museo

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

A thematic exploration of the work of the Colombian sculptor Luis Fernando Peláez, this book spans the artist’s career from his earliest graphic design and drawings to his unique installations and large-scale works for public areas. Full-color photographs illustrate the wide variety of languages and techniques employed by the sculptor and demonstrate the exceptional quality of his creations, which can be organized into groups joined together by the slightest thread of meaning but retain their individual significance and identity. This is an excellent introduction to a little-known but...

An Aymara Indian legend relating how Viracocha, the creator of the world, repopulated the world after the great flood of antiquity.

La Historia de las artes plásticas, en su más estricto sentido, no nació hasta fines del siglo XVIII. Pero, en estos dos siglos de existencia, en todos los países cultos se ha ido reconociendo su importancia en la formación integral del hombre. La densidad humana que encierran las obras de arte, y consecuentemente la importancia educativa de su historia, y el conocimiento de la evolución de los estilos en cuanto expresiones del hombre en las diversas épocas y civilizaciones, ha originado una gran variedad de maneras de abordar las obras de arte y consecuentemente su historia. Dando por ...