Frankenstein, o, el moderno Prometeo

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

Uno de los factores de cambio en el paso de las sociedades tradicionales a la sociedad moderna ha sido el acceso de las mujeres a la educación, lo cual facilita su participación en la sociedad como ciudadanas de pleno derecho. El aprendizaje de la lectoescritura se convierte así en un medio de empoderamiento de las mujeres. En este libro se analiza ese proceso tomando como caso una minoría religiosa y cultural: los judíos de la diáspora sefardí.Primera obra que se dedica monográficamente a la actividad de las mujeres sefardíes como lectoras y como escritoras en judeoespañol desde...

"Thorough survey of Spanish-affiliated Masonic lodges in Puerto Rico. Treats Freemasonry as a social phenomenon with ideological incursions into religion, politics, colonialism, slavery, education, social assistance, etc. Includes glossary of terms and lists of lodges and members"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

An ominous transitive verb entered the language in 1970s South America: to "disappear" someone. Some of these artists had family disappeared; others resisted or were forced into exile. Their work fights amnesia, serving as a stay against further atrocities.