Esta obra nos propone un original acercamiento a los temas de la memoria y la comunidad desde la perspectiva de la cultura y en un contexto urbano. Se trata de pensar la ciudad, lo local, lo comunitario y el arte a partir de las experiencias, testimonios y recuerdos de los habitantes de un enclave particular. Nos referimos a una pequeña localidad ubicada en la alcaldía Iztapalapa, en la Ciuda…
Este libro emerge como una intervención reflexiva en el panorama del arte contemporáneo latinoamericano, reuniendo trece conversaciones íntimas con artistas mujeres y disidencias desde una mirada feminista, crítica y afectiva. En un campo históricamente dominado por discursos masculinos, las voces aquí reunidas iluminan los obstáculos que éstas aún enfrentan y visibilizan los procesos …
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it explores the role of dealers not only in selling directly to museums, but in influencing museum collecting priorities, as well as potential donors. It…
Con una sincerità che sorprende, Beatrice Fazi – la Melina di Un medico in famiglia – racconta il suo incontro con Gesù e la conversione religiosa che l'ha salvata da un profondo disordine emotivo. Beatrice ci parla del suo cuore diventato di pietra, incapace di provare sentimenti, e di quel pozzo senza fondo in cui era caduta anche a seguito di un aborto praticato a vent'anni. Dopo un pe…
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it explores the role of dealers not only in selling directly to museums, but in influencing museum collecting priorities, as well as potential donors. It…
Die Sommerausgabe der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte öffnet die Kapsel "Eastern Underground". Anders als im Westen, wo die "subversive" Geste des "Undergrounds" recht bald vom Kunstmarkt absorbiert wurde, bewegte sich die alternative Szene im Osten Europas in einem Spannungsfeld von staatlichen Infiltrationen und intellektuellen Reinheitsphantasien, von Überwachung und Rebellion. Und mit de…
She helped found MoMA and pioneered the promotion of work of American and French modern artists at the turn of the 20th century, but until now, her life and legacy remain woefully under examined. An early pioneer and patron of French and American modernism, Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931) was one of three female cofounders of MoMA in 1929, and went on to furnish the museum with one of the finest co…
Israeli art from the turn of the millennium is the work of movers: artists who have relocated from one country to another, more by choice than by force, and who have thus beheld and refabricated an alternative image of Israel from a perspective tied to wider transnational concerns. The Movers invites readers to a series of engagements with contemporary Israeli artworks that have grown their in…
Featuring a variety of unique projects to inspire printmakers of all levels, this is a comprehensive introduction to printmaking. This practical guide offers a wide range of skills including monoprinting, block-printing, linoprinting, collagraph, drypoint etching and eco printing. Each printmaking method is explained with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations and is accompanied by s…
Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them. Political street art thrives; murals, stencils, and posters challenge authorities and commemorate the missing and the disappeared. Pasting Up Protest explores the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary Mexican artists, introducing the concept of memory activism, the guiding philoso…