Abracadabra

Esta colección realiza un recorrido exhaustivo y totalmente ilustrado a través de los grandes creadores de todos los tiempos y los testimonios artísticos que han dejado las principales culturas, en un papel de gran calidad y un formato manejable. Este vol

La instalación es una nueva forma de expresión que viene a reconsiderar las condiciones espaciales de presentación de las propuestas artísticas. Surge en la confluencia de ideas, acciones, contenidos, proyectos y manifestaciones plásticas de finales de la década de los sesenta y principios de los setenta, y sus planteamientos se nutren de esas corrientes transformadoras. La obra se divide en cuatro apartados. El primero de ellos está dedicado a los antecedentes que hicieron posible que un mecanismo tridimensional determinado se situara en el centro de la actividad artística. El...

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

La Cerca,” Fenci's solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for The Wall” as the exhibition's title. We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they're all...