Playing with scale

The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

En la alegoría de la caverna, de platón, se describe a un grupo de prisioneros desde su nacimiento con cadenas que los sujetan del cuello y de las piernas de forma que solo puedan mirar hacia la pared. Detrás de ellos se encuentra una hoguera y la entrada a la cueva desde el exterior. Los encadenados consideran como verdades a las sombras que ven, porque no pueden girarse y ver la realidad. Una versión moderna podría ser la sala de un cine. Si nacés ahí, y sólo mirás la pantalla sin poder girarte, creerás que estás viendo la verdad, ignorando, por supuesto, que hay un proyector...

Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked border cities, and is reinvented according to the shifting interests of artists and public institutions in Mexico. This most recent version of inSITE reconfigures...

With a wealth of curious, offbeat, and often hilarious lists, this movie lover’s guide seeks to answer questions such as What is the saddest moment in film history? Which movie had the greatest ending? and What’s the best sex scene in the history of cinema? among many others. Auteurs such as the Coen brothers, Mike Figgis, and Steven Soderbergh populate the pages of this engaging book, demonstrating why movies have captured the public imagination. Con una riqueza de listados curiosos, poco convencionales y a menudo hilarantes, esta guía para los amantes de las películas busca responder...