La Dolce Vita

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and ...

En este libro, dicen los editores, se presentan «algunas de las prácticas, proyectos, experiencias y pensamientos críticos que han surgido, en las dos últimas décadas, sobre la naturaleza y las posibilidades del llamado "arte político". Las prácticas que hemos incluido intentan ir de la representación a la acción: de mediar el mundo, a directamente actuarlo o ponerse en acción. Esperamos que este libro lleve a cuestionarnos sobre cómo volver a pensar los vínculos entre las prácticas artísticas, la política, la estética y la rebeldía social».

A collection of printed monographs on the aesthetic and mythological concepts of the Latin American Pre-Columbian art previously published in out-of-print editions. The author selected and updated each essay that included: Paradigmas del arte de Amerindia; Los Códices (Libros), Orfebrería Colombiana; Azteca: La monumentalidad trágica; Inca: Forma y especialidad and others.

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.