Francisco Goya

"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.

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other...

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, complex and expressive.

Los treinta y siete difíciles años que abarcó la vida de Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), corta y pródiga en crisis personales y espirituales, como atestiguan las " Cartas " a su hermano Theo publicadas en esta misma colección, encontraron una esplendorosa contrapartida en su obra pictórica, concentrada prácticamente en los doce últimos años de su existencia. En “Vincent van Gogh: vida y obra”, Uwe M. Schneede nos ofrece una biografía apasionante y sintética que no sólo describe la dramática trayectoria vital y el desarrollo artístico del pintor holandés –sus difíciles...