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Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art
The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. During this brief period of less than a century, it spread throughout the courts and cities of Europe, with significant regional variations on the style …
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Mac SchweitzerA Southwest Maverick and Her Art
In Tucson during the 1950s, nearly everyone knew, or wanted to know, the southwestern artist Mac Schweitzer. Born Mary Alice Cox in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921, she grew up a tomboy who adored horses, cowboys, and art. After training at the Cleveland School of Art and marrying, she adopted her maiden initials (M. A. C.) as her artistic name and settled in Tucson in 1946. With a circle of influenti…
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Mi vida con LeonardoCincuenta años de cordura y de locura en el mundo del ar…
En "Mi vida con Leonardo", Martin Kemp, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en Leonardo da Vinci, nos explica mediante un estilo personal y muy entretenido, entrelazado con la más pertinente reflexión académica, su relación de cincuenta años con la figura y la obra de Leonardo da Vinci.Kemp relata cómo ha lidiado con la vanidad de legiones de Leonardomaníacos, cómo ha caminado de punt…
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Eating Well, Living BetterThe Grassroots Gourmet Guide to Good Health and Gre…
Everyone loves to eat. And everyone wants to be healthy. But how do we navigate between today's extremes—between those offering us gastronomic gluttony and the siren song of convenient junk food and those preaching salvation only through deprivation and boring food choices? Dr. Michael Fenster draws upon his expertise and training as an interventional cardiologist and as a chef to forge a pat…
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Chilies to ChocolateFood the Americas Gave the World
Columbus stumbled upon the New World while seeking the riches of the orient, yet native peoples of the Americas already held riches beyond his knowing. From maize to potatoes to native beans, a variety of crops unfamiliar to Europeans were cultivated by indigenous peoples of the Americas, with other foods like chilies and chocolate on hand to make diets all the more interesting (even when used …
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Activismo en el mundo del arteHacia una ética del comisariado artístico
"Activismo en el mundo del arte: hacia una ética del comisariado artístico" parte de un principio básico: el mundo del arte como institución jerárquica y hegemónica (integrada por historiadores, museos y salas de exposiciones, mercados de subastas, editoriales, periodistas, críticos y, también, comisarios de exposiciones, etc.) privilegia determinados modos de hacer arte y a ciertos art…
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Nazi Hunger PoliticsA History of Food in the Third Reich
During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civilians by Nazi food po…
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Answered PrayersMiracles and Milagros along the Border
When Catholics in the Southwest ask God or a saint for help, many of them do not merely pray. They also promise or present a gift—a tiny metal object known as a milagro. A milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, depicts the object for which a miracle is sought, such as a crippled leg or a new house. Milagros are offered for everything people pray for, and so they can represent almost anyth…
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Interacción del colorEdición del cincuentenario
En 2013 se cumplieron cincuenta años de la publicación de uno de los clásicos imprescindibles de la enseñanza artística: "Interacción del color", que ofreció las bases para la enseñanza experimental del valor y el sentido de los colores. Defensor del aprendizaje en acción, la revolucionaria y polémica teoría pedagógica de Josef Albers no fue aceptada de manera inmediata por los defe…
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ChicagoA Food Biography
Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally rich and diverse indigenous populations. The town grew into a place of speculation with the planned building of the Illinois and Michigan canal, a boomtown, and finally a mature city of immigrants from both overseas and elsewhere in the US. In this environment, cultures mixed, first at t…
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