Xicoténcatl

The eighteenth century is one of the paradigms for studying identity crisis. It is from this period that the foundations of modernity and the definition of the values of contemporary societies are based. In this process of change, the debate on the intellectual capacity of females and their new role in the civilization of manners became a central issue that would define the whole time It not only helped to review the patterns of life and women's experiences, but also to rethink the role of man in the modern project of Enlightenment. This book explores the construction of these identities in...

El libro, el tercero de una serie que trata la historia completa del arte contemporáneo cuyos dos primeros títulos (Primitivismo, Cubismo, Abstracción y La Modernidad y lo Moderno) ya han sido editados por nosotros, analiza la historia de una parte esencial del arte del siglo xx, el arte del período de entreguerras, en el que las tendencias realistas y racionalistas (como el movimiento en torno a la Bauhaus, el Expresionismo, el Purismo o la Nueva Objetividad) coinciden con los movimientos dadaísta y surrealista.

The palindromic title of Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini's no, it is opposition. hints at its conceptual structure, which she describes as forking paths and crossroads. The book documents an exhibition which the viewer enters twice, encountering the same work again, but differently. The exhibition catalogue reflects the palindromic nature of the exhibition, mirroring itself and the exhibition in both structure and form.

Magnífica col·lecció de pintura que no va ser afectada per l'incendi de 1994, i que reuneix obres d'artistes com ara Joan Brull, Ricard Canals i Agapit Casas Ab arca, entre d'altres.