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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...

Mandalas allow us to better understand ourselves and are essential for self-awareness. The creative activity of coloring mandalas requires a departure from everyday consciousness, which lets us experience our deepest feelings and thoughts.

The volume aims to convey an impression of the richness and fascination of Romance Philology and the infinite variety of the contours and contents of the field of Romance Studies. The author was less concerned with developing novel theoretical models, but rather wanted to trace the manifestations of the most important stages in the development of the subject area and – wherever possible – to complement them with his own contributions.

Durante más de dos mil años, el arte de Grecia y Roma ha sido el de referencia para la civilización occidental. Este libro ofrece información sobre los orígenes de las atrevidas innovaciones de aquellos que exploraron nuevas ideas, con información sobre los grandes esfuerzos de escultores y pintores para retratar, por primera vez, tanto las complejidades de la forma humana como la riqueza de sus emociones. Los estragos del tiempo han destruido tanto, que parece que el arte griego y romano hubiera consistido únicamente en impresionantes ruinas y fragmentos rotos. Pero la realidad es muy ...