Imágenes y Paisajes: El Arte Rupestre del Noreste de Catamarca, Argentina

Los autores pretenden contribuir en los cuidados que debemos dar a nuestra palabra en su dimensión pragmática, dinámica, activa y utilitaria, sobre temas diversos y con metodologías diferentes, aunque todos vinculados a la retórica.

Este libro inaugura una aventura intelectual con la que se pretende suplir la escasez de referencias teóricas sobre las imágenes en la Edad Media recurriendo a los principios estéticos que proporciona la teoría literaria, ya que los propios tratados de retórica se valían a menudo de comparaciones entre el discurso visual y el escrito. La obra acomete dos cuestiones diferenciadas: las relaciones entre las artes predicatorias y los programas figurativos de las catedrales góticas, que operan en los dos sentidos, y la comparación entre fórmulas tipificadas en las gramáticas y las...

"El canon accidental: Woman artists in Argentina (1890-1950)" presents a wide selection of works produced by women artists in Argentina from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. By making visible their careers, which often included consecration at different venues, the exhibition sets out to examine the paths explored by women as they searched for an artistic identity and a way to make a living. "El canon accidental" includes more than 80 works by 44 artists at the margins of art history and by others almost entirely unknown today, though they earned the admiration of their...

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...