Psicoanálisis y literatura

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

A review and documentation of the collections of the museum of contemporary art located in Santiago, Chile. The museum collection is considered the most important in engravings with 1000 prints along with 600 paintings, 130 drawings, sketches and watercolors and 80 sculptures from the late 19th century to current art. The book includes a brief history and architecture of the museum, the members of the "Friends of the Museum" association, the conservation and documentation policies and detailed data on the national and international exhibitions and cultural activities for the 8 year period. An ...

El dibujo humorístico, a través de sus diversos formatos y de su publicación en prensa, revista y medios online, constituye uno de los más potentes medios de expresión artística, ideológica e incluso filosófica del último siglo. Mediante gags el humorista gráfico transmite su particular modo de ver las cosas, que puede coincidir, o no, con una gran parte de la sociedad, pero que en ningún caso deja indifente y siempre supone el contrapunto necesario a toda información. El presente libro trata de acercar al lector los diversos estilos de humor gráfico, la manera de desarrollarse...

This publication, edited by Renata Cervetto (MALBA) and Miguel Á. López (TEOR/éTica), comprises twenty-one critical contributions from various artists, educators, curators, historians and activists, who reflect on their experiences and artistic, educational and curatorial projects in the last two decades in Latin America. "From a critical look at the strategies of mediation to self-organized and collaborative learning practices, the texts gathered here explore the social function of education and its possibilities of redefining the reach of public art as well as activate renewed forms of...