Rckblicke und Neue Perspektiven / Miradas Retrospectivas y Nuevas Orientaciones

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

Shortly after Mauricio Goméz switched careers from journalism to painting, a painful condition developed in his right arm and kept him from working. As a result, he began experimenting with new techniques and materials—collage, pigments, and rubber—that he could manipulate using his left hand. Through an exemplary selection of his most recent work, this book presents Mauricio Gómez's new style, which reveals him to be a fighter for whom art is the reason to live. Poco después de que Mauricio Goméz cambió de una carrera periodística a una de arte, una dolorosa afección en su brazo...

Pedro, of Spanish hidalgo extraction, orphaned and living in a monastery, meets Christopher Columbus and decides to go with him as cabin boy on his voyage to the Indies.

¿Cómo trabajan los museos internacionalmente a través de las exposiciones? ¿Qué motiva este trabajo? ¿Cuáles son los beneficios y retos? ¿Qué factores contribuyen al éxito? ¿Qué impacto tiene este trabajo en los públicos y otros agentes interesados? ¿Qué aportaciones están haciendo a la diplomacia cultural, al entendimiento y al diálogo intercultural? El libro Embajadoras cosmopolitas considera el estado del conocimiento actual sobre las exposiciones internacionales y propone un marco analítico interdisciplinario que incluye a los estudios de museos, de públicos, la...