30 mandalas para pintar / 30 Mandalas for Painting

Mandalas, concentric designs that originated in ancient India, are growing ever more popular in therapy, meditation, and relaxation exercises. Coloring the mandalas in this book offers more than a mere artistic pastime--working with mandalas helps increase self-knowledge and interior peace.

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.

"Publication accompanied the exhibition 'Vicente Rojo: Cuarenta Años de Diseño Gráfico.' Includes accolades by some of his friends such as José Luis Cuevas, recognizing Rojo's contribution to graphic design in Mexico, an activity at which he excelled but is less known for than his painting. Generously illustrated in color"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Number 13 of the series gets together 2 thesis submitted for the degree of the Masters in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, focused on the relationship between the political discourse and how Columbian art was critically interpreted in different epochs. Lleras examines the state involvement in art through the works of Carlos Correa and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others while Jaramillo documents the plastic language used by Marco Ospina, Enrique Grau, and Alejandro Obregón amongst others who incorporated European avant-garde elements to become pioneer artists of modernism in Colombia.

El derrumbamiento del movimiento moderno en las artes ha suscitado un asombroso repertorio de respuestas artísticas y críticas. Los veinticinco ensayos que recoge Arte después de la modernidad proporcionan una perspectiva general de las direcciones más interesantes que han seguido el arte y la crítica recientes, al abordar temas como el declive de la ideología moderna en las artes o la emergencia de una amplia gama de prácticas artísticas posmodernas. las corrientes actuales en pintura, cine, vídeo y fotografía. las investigaciones de artistas pertenecientes al ámbito de las artes...