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Horizontes culturales de la historia del arte: aportes para una acción compartida en Colombia
Este volumen constituye el inicio de una aventura de perspectivas y posibilidades en los programas de historia del arte de la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, los cuales permiten formar estudiantes tenaces y capaces de asumir el reto del estudio sobre el objeto artístico, la imagen, la cultura visual y los lugares de la memoria del arte. Es el inicio de una conversación con la historia, que como bien la describe Ernst Gombrich, “es como un queso gruyer, está llena de agujeros”. En este sentido, lo interpela Peter Burke: “la historia es como un espejismo, nunca se alcanza, pero es bueno estar orientados por ella, es como vamos a estar más cerca de lograrla” (entrevista a...
The Persistence of Violence
Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history--by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.
Ensayos sobre la historia de Cartagena de Indias
En las últimas tres décadas la historiografía sobre Cartagena de Indias se ha expandido en sus horizontes temáticos, métodos, fuentes y aplicación de disciplinas auxiliares de la historia. Este libro contiene una muestra de algunas de las nuevas tendencias en la historiografía de la Costa Caribe colombiana. El lector hallará aquí estudios desde muchas perspectivas: la aqueología, la historía económica, social y política, el desarrollo urbano, la salud pública y las artes. Son trabajos escritos por reconocidos especialistas que tocan todos los períodos de la historia de Cartagena, desde antes de la llegada de los españoles hasta el siglo XX. Este texto será de obligada referencia para quienes quieran seguir profundizando en el estudio de la historia cartagenera.
Histories of Solitude
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...
Obregón 100 años
Los que conocimos y tratamos a Obregón sabemos que fue impulsivo, desbordado, generoso y entregado, estimulado por una sola cosa: la pasión por la vida. No era frío ni reservado o retraído, cualidad humana que se reflejó en su pintura. Procuró y logró expresar lo que experimentaba como ser pensante y sensible en el diario acontecer […] En la celebración del centenario de su nacimiento, este libro constituye una memoria de por qué Alejandro Obregón fue único y distinto, es decir, inclasificable e insular en el mejor sentido de las dos palabras. -Álvaro Medina
Rio as Method
Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazilian megacity as a globally relevant source for transformational world-making insights. Presenting this volume as a handbook and manifesto for energizing public engagement and direct action, more than forty contributors reconceive method as a politics of knowledge production that animates new ways of being, seeing, and doing politics. They draw on lessons from the city’s intersecting re...
Art Museums of Latin America
Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.
A COVID Charter, A Better World
With unprecedented speed, scientists have raced to develop vaccines to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control and restore a sense of normalcy to our lives. Despite the havoc and disruption the pandemic has caused, it’s exposed exactly why we should not return to life as we once knew it. Our current profit-driven healthcare systems have exacerbated global inequality and endangered public health, and we must take this opportunity to construct a new social order that understands public health as a basic human right. A COVID Charter, A Better World outlines the steps needed to reform public policies and fix the structural vulnerabilities that the current pandemic has made so painfully clear...
