Felices y Coloridos Sueños, Señor

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

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...

Investigación y gestión de proyectos en biblioteconomía: el caso de la catalogación automática (DIC) recoge una idea española de principios de los años noventa, original e innovadora, al conseguir una catalogación autónoma y automática añadida a los documentos (libros, vídeos, discos, grabados, etc.), ideada por Carmen Díez Carrera y Carlos González Ruiz, patentada y galardonada en varias ocasiones. Obtuvo la medalla de plata en el XXIII Salon International des Inventions, en Ginebra en 1995, y el I Premio de Ideas para Spin-off de Investigadores, en el área de Tecnologías de...

Si hubiera que definir con una sola palabra la pintura románica, tendríamos que llamarla «antinaturalista». La pintura románica, igual que la bizantina, resulta poco naturalista comparada con la desarrollada desde el Renacimiento hasta el siglo XIX. Mas no debe achacarse todo a la torpeza técnica de sus autores. No se trata de torpeza técnica. Para comprender el fenómeno de la pintura románica debemos remontarnos un poco más atrás y recordar los rumbos que tomó la civilización europea y el arte cristiano desde el Bajo Imperio Romano.