El arte puertorriqueño y la cultura taína

Libro que compila fotográficamente el cementerio de la Recoleta de la ciudad de Asunción, el más antiguo en pie de dicha ciudad capital del Paraguay.

From the late 1950s until the 1980s, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) made drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging-net pieces (reticulareas), and wire constructions (drawings without paper) of extraordinary quality. Taken as a whole, these works illustrate the issue at the core of her production: the liberation of line from volume and form into space. Though little known outside of Latin America, Gego's work enjoyed a dialogue with twentieth-century artists and movements active not only in Venezuela, but also worldwide. In a series of essays examining...

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

«Isótopos» es una palabra clásica; la he tomado del famoso sistema periódico de los elementos, del químico Mendeliev. Está formada por las palabras griegas iso, que quiere decir ‘igual’, y topos, que quiere decir ‘lugar’; debe traducirse o entenderse por ‘del mismo lugar’. El gran químico que formó la tabla de los elementos descubrió que de algunos de ellos se daban como dos tipos o versiones –no me pregunten cuál era el factor diferencial–, pero que correspondían a los mismos caracteres en lo que atañe al criterio de colocación de la casilla que les...