Los demonios y los días

Throughout the history of art, drawing has always represented the most profound and true expression of artists' visions, the final frontier to prove the depth of their talent. This book is an exploration of several of Colombia's most representative artists' pencil work. In most cases, these sketches are the most basic yet crucial point of an artistic idea that is later completed in another medium—paint, marble, photography, or a computer. A lo largo de toda la historia del arte, el dibujo representa la expresión más profunda y verdadera del artista, la frontera final para probar la...

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.

The book is based on the concept of post-monolingualism as formulated by Yildiz (2012). Postmonolingualism refers to the resistance against the demands of monolingual institutions that require increasingly complex identities, social practices, and cultural products to conform to the expectancies of a normality which is no longer reasonable. To counter the demands for simplification of a monolingual paradigm, different approaches and initiatives that manage the complexities and diversities of our social, cognitive and moral nowadays are explored. From different and complementary theoretical...

La ilustración de los libros infantiles cuenta ya con un lugar propio en la evolución de las artes plásticas contemporáneas. Desde el último tercio del siglo XIX, marco del primer desarrollo del libro y de la literatura infantiles en España, hasta el momento actual, iniciado ya el siglo XXI, muchas son las aportaciones creadoras que han contribuido a esa consolidación artística y al correspondiente reconocimiento social. Sin embargo, faltan aún una recuperación más completa de esa memoria histórica, su necesario análisis y la imprescindible divulgación de la labor de notables...