José María Ponce de León y la ópera en Colombia en el siglo xix & Ester, Libreto de Rafael Pombo

Este libro propone una mirada al mundo de la ciencia desde el cinematógrafo y, al mismo tiempo, un repaso por la historia de un arte con más de 120 años de existencia. Historias sobre personalidades únicas que trabajaron para favorecer el progreso de la humanidad, narraciones que buscan estimular el conocimiento del organismo humano o de los mundos animal y vegetal, ejercicios especulativos fundamentados en principios científicos que predicen qué futuro espera a nuestra especie... El lector encontrará en este libro un repaso a producciones cuyo punto de partida es la glosa de la obra...

Manual para la asignatura de Historia del Arte Moderno en el que se ha pretendido cartografiar el ámbito artístico de Europa y su proyección americana, tratando de entender tanto lo que une como lo que distingue a los dos XVII y XVIII.

Living in a cramped space where Beverly Hills and Calcutta meet every day, the artists gathered here explore the tension between wealth and poverty, among progress, stagnation, and improvisation, and between the violence and civility that animates the vibrant center that is Mexico City. Compounding the complexity of urban living, high rates of kidnapping, murder and pollution become a daily threat. For the rich, the body becomes an object to be cared for, protected, even exchanged for ransom, while, for an underclass of day laborers, homeless people, and prostitutes, survival depends on...

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...