Clorinda Deleste

Narra el recorrido, vital y transformador de una de las personalidades más importantes en la historia de México. El "tata" Vasco y su ingente labor humanitaria de ayuda al desarrollo y al progreso de diversas poblaciones mexicanas se nos muestra con unas ilustraciones que reflejan toda la belleza de los paisajes de las rutas de don Vasco de Quiroga.

Waldo Rojas entrega un extenso acopio de información sistematizada y rigurosa, en la que se establece un panorama informativo y reflexivo del movimiento surrealista francés y sus prolongaciones continentales, desde sus orígenes en el estallido febril de Dadá hasta su disolución oficial en el decenio de 1960. Son identificados biográficamente sus fundadores, protagonistas y simpatizantes desde Tzara, Breton, Soupault, Duchamp, Man Ray, hasta Picabia, Ernst, Dalí o Matta. Y destaca la voluntad de convocar que tuvo el surrealismo a través de la palabra escrita en revistas, afiches,...

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

Anthological edition with 10 texts produced from the 1970's to present by noted artist, academic, and critic Luis Camnitzer. The critical essays are centered in art although examined from different perspectives. The author reflects, criticizes and deconstructs the way we understand the artistic system, its power nets and the incidence of the commercial market. "Camnitzer shares with us the condition of looking to a dominant cultural knot, that is, it is inserted in our own same measure in what is known as the 'Colonial relationship'"--P.6.