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Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate...

This book comprises the testimonies of five founders of the workshop Taller 4 Rojo: Carlos Granada (1933-2015), Diego Arango (1942), Umberto Giangrandi (1943), Jorge Mora (1944) and Fabio Rodríguez Amaya (1950). It is a long dialogue held with another collective, the workshop Taller Historia Crítica del Arte (workshop Critical History of Art), setting up a document, which in addition to their voices and controversial memoirs, includes the complex documentary collections that they still preserve. Developed in the context of the vast programme of research on the relations between art and...

Con una presentacion de Fabienne Bradu, esta bella edicion viene acompanada de dos discos compactos en los que el propio Gonzalo Rojas lee su trabajo poetico. La seleccion, de el y de la presentadora, fue hecha de los libros Antologia del aire y Dialogo con Ovidio.

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...