Cosmorama

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

This comprehensive and extremely well researched study documents the history and evolution throughout political and social changes of the former art academy of San Carlos (now the National School of Fine Arts) form its foundation in 1781 to the early 20th century when the academy was integrated to the National Autonomous University of Mexico, (UNAM). Profusely illustrated, this volume examines in detail the first 127 years of the academic institution through the history of its original building, the academic and administrative organization and the artistic production of its academic staff and ...

When a reporter plans an exposé that could shut down the School of Fear, Garrison, Lulu, Madeleine, Theo and Hyacinth seek help from Bishop Basmati, head of the nearby Contrary Conservatory, whose hyperactive, fearless, and extremely impulsive students soon overrun the School of Fearians.

Expresado en términos wagnerianos, tres Leitmotive dominan el libro. Corresponden a tres peculiaridades del teatro wagneriano: lo narrativo, el tiempo y el ritual. Junto a estos temas, hay otros dos que reaparecen con frecuencia: en los primeros capítulos, la paradoja de una forma artística que rechaza su época en nombre de una sociedad futura, y sin embargo, alcanza un éxito sin precedentes en su propio tiempo; en los últimos capítulos, el descubrimiento de una cierta verdad a través del drama, y su relación con Benjamin y Heidegger. La importancia decisiva del lado épico del...