Un Tesoro lleno de Esperanza

Surrealism is one of the most popular art movements of the twentieth century. Taking the reader on a narrative journey through the history of surrealism, this book is a digestible introduction to the movement's key figures, their works and where to find them, complete with a glossary of key terms and chronology.

En abril de 1938, André Breton, el iniciador de la aventura surrealista, llegó a México para dar una serie de conferencias. Tenía la esperanza de ver allí a León Trotski, el revolucionario de Octubre y fundador del Ejército Rojo. Por mediación de Diego Rivera se produjo ese encuentro sorprendente y desigual: Breton admiraba la fortaleza y la gesta de Trotski, mientras que este desconfiaba de las experiencias poéticas de los surrealistas. Sin embargo, el artista y el combatiente se embarcaron en un proyecto que los ocupó durante tres meses: la redacción del manifiesto "Por un arte...

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...

Reúne nueve estudios sobre los efectos sociales y lingüísticos del bilingüismo en Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia, que versan sobre el mantenimiento del quechua, el español andino y la media lengua, basados en muestras espontáneas.