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Frederic Church
A reconsideration of Church's works offering a sustained examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American landscape painting.
Entangled Knowledge
The intimate relationship between global European expansion since the early modern period and the concurrent beginnings of the scientific revolution has long been acknowledged. The contributions in this volume approach the entanglement of science and cultural encounters - many of them in colonial settings - from a variety of perspectives. Historical and historiographical survey essays sketch a transcultural history of knowledge and conduct a critical dialogue between the recent academic fields of Postcolonial Studies and Science & Empire Studies; a series of case studies explores the topos of Europe's 'great inventions', the scientific exploitation of culturally unfamiliar people and objects...
Alberto Magno en los Andes
'Albertus Magnus' is the best-known work of German sculptor Gerhard Marcks (Berlín, 1889 - Colonia, 1981). The bronze statue of saint Albert the Great located in the campus of the Universidad de los Andes and known as El Bobo' is one of the four replicas found in different parts of the world. "The book ... is a simple but important tribute that the University makes to this historic Uniandes symbol - as a sculpture, as a monument, as an emblem and as a badge - to remember its history, that of its author and that of the figure of Saint Albert Magnus. It is a modest contribution to the celebration of our 70 years of existence that we deliver to the Uniandes community so that we understand and appreciate more our beloved Bobo." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover.
Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Exploring such themes and events as funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food, a group of leading historians examines the ways that a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. The authors analyze case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicara...
Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand his views on the tropics to include a social dimension to their observations on nature, culture, race, and progress in Brazil and Mexico. Highlighting the role of women as a new kind of observer as well as the complexity of connections between the United States and Latin America, Gerassi-Navarro interweaves science, politics, and aesthetics in new transnational frameworks.
Los silencios
"El hombre vive muy ocupado y no encuentra el momento para aislarse y buscar el silencio interior, necesario para pensar. El silencio exterior, silencio ambiental, es igual o más difícil de encontrar, y tan necesario como el primero. Sin embargo, no es fácil de controlar porque no depende de nosotros únicamente: en una buena parte depende de los arquitectos, quienes tienen la obligación de diseñar sus edificios lo más silenciosos posible. En este libro se analizan los silencios, y se cita la opinión de reconocidos expertos."
Indecent Exposures
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), often termed the father of the motion picture, presented his iconic Animal Locomotion series in 1887. Produced under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and encompassing thousands of photographs of humans and animals in motion, the series included more than 300 plates of nude men and women engaged in activities such as swinging a baseball bat, playing leapfrog, and performing housework—an astonishing fact given the period’s standards of propriety. In the first sustained examination of these nudes and the remarkable success of their production, wide circulation, and reception, Indecent Exposures positions this revolutionary enterprise as central to crucial advancements of the modern era. Muybridge’s nudes ushered in new attitudes toward science and progress, including Darwinian ideas about human evolution and hierarchy; quickened debates over the role of photography and scientific investigation in art; and offered innovative perspectives on the human body. This fascinating story is copiously illustrated, and includes many lesser-known photographs published here for the first time.
Constelaciones visuales
Constelaciones visuales es una investigación monográfica sobre la producción visual de los viajeros extranjeros que visitaron Colombia durante el siglo XIX. A pesar de algunas investigaciones, aún no existe en la historiografía nacional una publicación panorámica sobre la valiosa obra visual de los viajeros, su significado en algunas narrativas sobre el pasado y sus repercusiones en el presente del país. Este libro examina cientos de imágenes y textos de distintos viajeros, como Edward Mark, Henry Price, José María Gutiérrez de Alba, François Desiré Roulin, Auguste Le Moyne, Frederic Church, Charles Empson y Albert Berg. Esta obra está divida en dos secciones: en la prime...
The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time
The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments (in the form of short notations on the edges of a quarter-century-old yellowed journal) of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. While comparatively few, these notes are nonetheless the essential marble skeleton on which the whole denouement and structure of the book hangs. In a sense, much of the book comprises a straightforward objective record of the excavation of "historical" minutiae and “forgotten” manuscripts. But then those mildewed scraps of parchment, paper, and scrolls are assembled into something far greater than the sum of their parts. The objective reportage plus the finished assemblage comprises the novel.
La presidencia de Virgilio Barco treinta años después
La presencia militar de Estados Unidos en América Latina: bases y cuasibases explora la oposición interna en América Latina a las bases militares de Estados Unidos y ofrece evidencia de una red creciente de instalaciones informales que apoyan las operaciones estadounidenses en la región. Los países anfitriones permiten esta red de “cuasibases” (instalaciones que sin un acuerdo oficial admiten la presencia y las operaciones estadounidenses), que brindan un soporte esencial para alcanzar los objetivos de seguridad de Estados Unidos. Este libro es el resultado de una extensa investigación de documentos oficiales, entrevistas y trabajo de campo, y busca contribuir al entendimiento de las relaciones de seguridad entre Estados Unidos y América Latina, un campo tradicionalmente dominado por argumentos ideológicos y poco empíricos.
