El Greco en Castilla-La Mancha

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...

Este libro recoge el resultado de largas horas de conversaciones entre Antonio Vega y Juan Bosco, en las que el artista desgrana sus opiniones e inquietudes, así como su particular visión del mundo que lo rodea. Los textos, en los que se incluyen letras de canciones inéditas de Antonio, van acompañados de fotografías de su entorno más próximo, tanto familiar como de sus amistades, cedidas especialmente para este libro.

Se ala el autor en una nota preliminar: "En el primer poema aludo a Quetzalco tl, sin nombrarlo en la an cdota de Chi-Chen Itz . Es a la mitad de este trabajo donde hago recuerdo de dos h roes culturales fruto del tr pico: Buda universal, Quetzalco tl de nuestra Am rica. Los dos poemas son una sola imagen con diferentes luces: juventud y madurez.

The articles included in this collection cover a wide range of literatures and topics, but most of them address the ways in which ethnic writers create themselves in opposition and resistance to the mainstream. These narratives of opposition and resistance do not equate protest narratives but represent a consciously subversive effort. There is agency and creativity in the confrontation, for the majority of the these narratives are not only demystifying an old world and order but creating a new one; there narratives are not reproducing as much as producing and forging culture and literature....