Fresa y chocolate, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea y Juan Carlos Tabío

Throughout the history of art, drawing has always represented the most profound and true expression of artists' visions, the final frontier to prove the depth of their talent. This book is an exploration of several of Colombia's most representative artists' pencil work. In most cases, these sketches are the most basic yet crucial point of an artistic idea that is later completed in another medium—paint, marble, photography, or a computer. A lo largo de toda la historia del arte, el dibujo representa la expresión más profunda y verdadera del artista, la frontera final para probar la...

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 exhibition catalogue is a retrospective examination of artist Caffera (b. Chile 1931) life and workmanship, from his collages "Ensembles," his artist books to his ceramics and jewelry created using simple, ordinary and natural materials (cloths, wood, metal, etc.), as representations of what has lost value in the eyes of the present bourgeoisie culture and that in the artist's coherent and ideological unity represent fragments of unconnected life experiences. Caffera has been a member since 1964 of the Unión de Artistas Plásticos Contemporáneos, UAPC (Union of Contemporary Plastic...

Una gran guía que incluye numerosas fotografías de relojes de bolsillo y que nos explica la catalogación y su técnica. Con esta obra podrá disfrutar más si cabe de sus relojes, así como utilizarla para aprender a catalogar sus piezas, valorar su colección, o bien iniciarse en el coleccionismo. Para la selección de los relojes de bolsillo que se presenta, se ha acudido a colecciones de primer nivel tanto públicas como privadas. El autor es Profesor Doctor Honoris Causa por varias universidades, coleccionista de varias generaciones y experto en historia, técnica y peritación...