En este libro concebido para el público general aficionado al arte y al estudiante que da sus primeros pasos en la materia, Dana Arnold proporciona un conocimiento básico sobre los aspectos fundamentales de la cultura visual. La obra aporta asimismo un análisis claro y conciso sobre los debates que existen dentro de la disciplina y permite al lector equiparse con las herramientas básicas ne…
A faded image of a family gathered at a festively served dinner table, raising their glasses in unison. A group of small children, sitting in orderly rows, with stuffed toys at their feet and a portrait of Lenin looming over their heads. A pensive older woman against a snowy landscape, her gaze directed lovingly at a tombstone. These are a few of the evocative images in In Visible Presence by O…
Marta Miranda se ha convertido en un referente de la cocina con olla de cocción lenta. Después del éxito de sus libros anteriores, llega el momento de centrarse en unos platos cada día más solicitados: los elaborados exclusivamente con ingredientes vegetales. Con unas fotografías espectaculares y una puesta en página muy atractiva, este manual recoge propuestas para todos los gustos (du…
Picture Research focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, and searched for in a time before scanners, servers, and search engines, and describes the dramatic difference it made when images became scannable, searchable, and distributable via the internet. While the camera, the darkroom, and the printed page are well-known sites of photographic production that have been replaced by cell phones…
La vida, signifique lo que signifique, no es algo que pueda explicarse desde la eternidad. La memoria de Mariano Fortuny y Marsal ha estado demasiado condicionada por la épica de un destino artístico situado más allá de los avatares terrenales. Sin embargo, como todos los seres humanos, hubo de conciliar sus aspiraciones personales con la complejidad de un sistema que cambiaba rápidamente,…
Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the…
Obras que blasfeman o hablan de sexo con crudeza, creaciones a base de sangre, orina y heces... En el mundo del arte, a menudo las imágenes más extrañas o chocantes se consideran geniales, algo que resulta confuso o incluso indignante para muchos espectadores. A ellos, en parte, se dirige Cynthia Freeland con este libro valioso y audaz convertido en un clásico de referencia. En él, basánd…
Across the world, walking is a vital way to assert one's presence in public space and discourse. Walking maps the terrain of contemporary walking practices, foregrounding work by Black artists, Indigenous artists and artists of colour, working-class artists, LGBTQI+ artists, disabled artists and neurodiverse artists, as well as many more who are frequently denied the right to take their places …
Discover how Miamis local art community transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchange Step into the vibrant heartbeat of Miamis art scene during a transformative period in Miamis Art Boom. Award-winning art critic Elisa Turner presents over 100 of her best profiles, reviews, and stories to capture the evolution of Miamis visual arts community before and after the inaugural Art …
In The Future Is Present, Philip Glahn and Cary Levine tell the fascinating history of the visionary art group Mobile Image—founded by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1977—which appropriated emerging technologies, from satellites to electronic message platforms. Based in Los Angeles, this under-studied collective worked amid urban crisis, a techno-boom, consolidating media power, and…