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The art world is no longer defined by the activity of traditional art centres such as New York, Berlin, Beijing, or London, but is instead shaped by many cities, small and large. This book explores the hybrid nature of today's international artistic landscape by introducing readers to the art scenes in six featured cities.
Interacciones Educativas presenta las iniciativas de diferentes agentes educativos e investigadores que buscan favorecer una mejor relación entre los individuos y su entorno, dotándolos de herramientas culturales relevantes para actuar en el mundo. Sus autores y autoras dialogan con diferentes realidades y necesidades educativas a través rigurosos ejercicios de investigación que ponen en juego conocimientos, habilidades y metodologías de trabajo cuidadosamente diseñadas, evaluadas y discutidas con el fin de entender en profundidad los alcances psicosociales de las diferentes prácticas educativas presentadas. Los seis capítulos que presenta este libro se ocupan de la promoción del ap...
How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of the form, its subjects, and its creators. Latin American comics production is arguably more interconnected and more networked across national borders than ever before. Analyzing works from Argentina, ...
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Con el auge que han tenido las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en años recientes, la crítica y los debates en torno al arte contemporáneo se han desplazado de los medios impresos al Internet. Pensar la escena presenta un conjunto de debates del campo del arte contemporáneo que han tenido lugar en Esfera Pública, portal de discusión en Internet en el que artistas, críticos y curadores han debatido colectivamente sobre la actividad artística, las prácticas institucionales y eventos como salones de arte, bienales, curadurías independientes e institucionales. El libro aborda seis temas sobre los que se ha reflexionado reiteradamente en este foro y que ponen en evidencia problem...
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19 papers presented in 2008 during the lecture sessions "Cátedra Marta Traba" dedicated to study the cultural contributions and innovative vision of acclaimed art critic Marta Traba (b. Argentina 1930, moved to Colombia in 1954 - d. 1983), honoring her lifework as art critic and academic. Her career included a program of art history transmitted live in the early Colombian television; her lectures in Art History given at the National University of Colombia and her fundamental role in the foundation of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. Author Gustavo Zalamea Traba, the son of the critic and journalist Alberto Zalamea is the director of the Instituto Taller de Creación of the Art Faculty of the University in Bogotá.
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Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personalarchives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.