Educación multimedia y nuevas tecnologías

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

"Maniobras elementales es una colección de meditaciones acerca de los inescrutables enlaces entre los objetos y la poesía ... también habla sobre la experiencia de ser receptores de las obras de los demás. Por eso hay tanta música en este libro, tantas obras de arte, tantos libros y tantos gigantes"--Back cover.

Este ensayo crítico en forma epistolar, escrita por Juan Agustín Ceán-Bermúdez (1749-1829) pintor, historiador y crítico de arte, alaba las cualidades únicas de la escuela de Sevilla y examina la obra de Bartolomé Murillo, el primer pintor español que logró renombre en toda Europa.