La princesa inca

Naive art became recognized as such at the end of the 19th century. Created by artists who often lacked formal education, and characterized by a simplicity and spontaneity far removed from formal, institutionally approved styles, naive art is more popular today than ever. This oversize book honors a wide range of important artists of this distinctive form from many countries and time periods, including Henri Rosseau, Seraphine de Senlis, Andre Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Joan Miro, Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.

Azul se dedica a contar historias. En un viaje en tren, durante los años setenta, conoce a Nicolás. A él le contará la historia de su abuela Biddie. ¿Es verdadera o ficticia? Lo cierto es que, después de escucharla, algo cambiará en la vida de Nicolás.

Esta obra ha sido planteada didácticamente por competencias. Más allá de modas pedagógicas y didácticas programáticas, más allá del apego a lineamientos globalizadores, por competencia debe entenderse aquella habilidad o cualidad integral que permite al educado la adquisición y aplicación de conocimientos, la comprensión y el desarrollo de facultades, el reconocimiento y la formación de hábitos, así como la crítica y al afianzamiento de valores éticos, cívicos e históricos a través del pasado, presente y futuro.

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...