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Against All Odds reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to see an exhibition of graffiti art which Haring had co-curated. This volume contains the entirety of their collection, much of which is reproduced for the first...

Oficiante del periodismo desde hace mas de medio siglo, Elías Chávez nos ofrece en estas páginas una radiografía genuina, profunda, personalísima, aunque a vuelo de pájaro, de toda una existencia profesional dedicada a perseguir las noticias, a construir con lenguaje certero las crónicas, a tejer y destejes las entrevistas, a trazar las semblanzas de personajes de la política en México con quienes logró conversar a jalones de perseverancia y con no escasa dosis de "suerte de reportero". José Reveles

El tratado de Martínez (1675) forma parte, con los Diálogos de la pintura de Carducho y el Arte de la pintura de Pacheco, de la tríada de textos de teoría del arte más importantes del Siglo de Oro español. Habitualmente reducido a mero depósito de datos histórico-artísticos, posee, sin embargo, un rico fondo teórico, que bebe en fuentes tan variadas como Séneca, Vasari, Carducho o Baltasar Gracián, con quien comparte su filosofía moral a través de los conceptos de buena elección y buen gusto, principalmente. Esta edición aborda los problemas de crítica textual y literarios...

A monograph dedicated to the great Irish-American artist and to Human, his new exhibition project for San Giorgio Maggiore Abbey in Venice."My work is an attempt to release the spirit"Sean ScullyPublished on the occasion of the exhibition in the historic church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the volume gathers recent works and new, unseen pieces by the celebrated abstract artist who has created a series of new sculptures, paintings, drawings, and watercolour works directly inspired by the monks' Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, by their vast illuminated manuscript collections and by the...