Sebastián Salazar Bondy: Pasión por la cultura

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...

Estudio lingüístico que comprende la relación entre las capacidades cognoscitivas y las estructuras mentales del hombre.

Identificar y explorar la supuesta función del arte a través de algunos de los principales argumentos desarrollados al respecto, es el objetivo de la obra, en un diálogo entre la tradición filosófica en materia Estética y el Psicoanálisis. El autor muestra que la función del arte es prometer, pero una promesa muy particular que sólo se puede proferir desde el lugar específico que le corresponde en la cultura: una promesa de reconciliación.

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...