Sinónimos castellanos

Más allá de sus investigaciones sobre temas históricos y políticos, y en otro horizonte intelectual bien distinto, estas reflexiones, publicadas por primera vez en 1719 y preparadas desde diez años antes, constituyen la más cuidada exposición sobre la teoría de las artes hecha por Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, para quien la finalidad específica del arte es emocionar. Esta obra, muy erudita, plena de sagacidad y de espíritu crítico, es todo un ejercicio filosófico ponderado que resulta aún más valioso cuando se conoce el hecho de que el propio Du Bos jamás practicó las artes acerca de...

A farmer describes how the resident parrot makes daily life more interesting for the other animals on the farm.

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

The exhibition discovers a feature rarely known of famous muralist Diego Rivera's (b. Mexico 1886-1957) personality: as a collector of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art. The book analyses the inspirational force that these ancient objects represented in his artistic creations, particularly those related to ancient cosmovision; while in parallel revalues the importance of Rivera's contributions to collectionism: his collection, his safekeeping efforts, and how he presented to the public the pieces, highlighting their aesthetic and mystic importance and the role they had as symbols of the Mexican...