La publicidad local/ The Local Publicity

"Commemorative edition celebrating the reopening in 2005 of the patrimonial building that houses the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. The book examines the history of the museum and of the building, the architectonic restoration, while also is an historic document of the museum's reopening ceremony celebrated December 16, 2005. Includes brief reviews on MAC's personages, collection and historical exhibitions"--Provided by vendor.

Léxico histórico andaluz. I. Período clásico recorre la franja diacrónica por la que discurren los tres primeros siglos de nuestra actividad lexicográfica: desde el segundo tercio del XV hasta el año 1696. Como finalidad se persigue dar muestra verdadera de la incipiente variedad geolingüística andaluza en nuestros primeros diccionarios. El resultado lo constituye casi un centenar de voces que sometemos a inventario, estudio y redacción con fines lexicográficos. No obstante, debemos tener en cuenta que no todas las voces recogidas en este vocabulario gozaron ni entonces ni hoy de...

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

A thematic exploration of the work of the Colombian sculptor Luis Fernando Peláez, this book spans the artist’s career from his earliest graphic design and drawings to his unique installations and large-scale works for public areas. Full-color photographs illustrate the wide variety of languages and techniques employed by the sculptor and demonstrate the exceptional quality of his creations, which can be organized into groups joined together by the slightest thread of meaning but retain their individual significance and identity. This is an excellent introduction to a little-known but...