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A review and documentation of the collections of the museum of contemporary art located in Santiago, Chile. The museum collection is considered the most important in engravings with 1000 prints along with 600 paintings, 130 drawings, sketches and watercolors and 80 sculptures from the late 19th century to current art. The book includes a brief history and architecture of the museum, the members of the "Friends of the Museum" association, the conservation and documentation policies and detailed data on the national and international exhibitions and cultural activities for the 8 year period. An ...

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...

Poco antes de su muerte, Claude Monet escribió: "Todavía lamento el haber sido la causa del nombre que se le dio a este grupo, ya que la mayoría de los artistas no eran impresionistas en absoluto". Comenzando con esta paradoja, la de un conjunto de artistas que se consideraban a sí mismos como un grupo coherente al mismo tiempo que declaraban que su objetivo final era reafirmar la individualidad artística, la autora, Nathalia Brodskaya, explora las contradicciones del arte de finales del siglo XIX. ¿Acaso no fue Manet quien evocó la fórmula definitiva: "pinto lo que veo y no lo que...

Era un pequeño con grandes sueños, ansioso por crecer, por ser grande, por ser alguien que... no pasara inadvertido. El álbum ilustrado ganador del II Premio Internacional Compostela es un microrrelato de gran valor literario, que transporta al lector al fascinante mundo de la mitología maya y la astronomía. El mexicano Felipe Ugalde nos cuenta la historia de un cocodrilo que aspira a trascender, a través del tiempo y del espacio, más allá incluso de su propia existencia en el mundo.