Corriendo Hacia la Trinchera

This book presents a selection of works from the contemporary art collection of the UMAC, emphasizing more recent acquisitions and a few works that have been placed on long-term loan. Also includes some of the highlights from earlier phases of the collection's history.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

The present research study represents art historian Ramirez' reflections on the modernistic movement developed in Mexico in the early 20th century through detailed examination of diverse critical texts published in exhibition catalogues and other publications. The author analyses the protagonists, the institutions (particularly that of the National School of Fine Arts) and the visual expressions that represented the modernist alternative of Post Revolutionary Mexico. Some names mentioned include noted artists like: Jesús Contreras, Julio Ruela, German Gedovius, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl),...

A lo largo de los siglos, imágenes marianas de múltiples fisonomías han ido apareciendo en la iconografía cristiana; todas ellas tenían su origen en los distintos iconos de la Virgen que recogen las páginas bíblicas, no tanto como imágenes plásticas, sino a través de descripciones verbales. En la presente obra, impresa a color, el lector podrá contemplar 31 iconos marianos, tantos cuantos son los días que trae el mes que la tradición popular vive en compañía de María. Cada icono es introducido por una cita bíblica a partir de la cual el autor comenta la imagen basándose en...