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Los periodistas nunca deben renunciar al dato preciso y al rigor en la interpretación de las causas y consecuencias. Ni siquiera si se adentran en los géneros de opinión o se someten a las limitaciones de espacio y tiempo que imponen las circunstancias de los medios actuales. Su obligación siempre es trascender la obviedad para ser útiles y propiciar un diálogo enriquecedor. Porque, por muy exigente que sea el formato explorado, no hay justificación para lo vacuo. He aquí la motivación principal de este libro: invitar al público a reflexionar sobre la construcción colectiva de un...

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

The contents of the book are an exploration into the popcorn kernel as a visually complex system, translating in the mind subtle nuances. The whole emerges in the mind and the very visual motoric activity releases the whole, in an expression that takes shape and form. The American snack, popcorn, in its abundance, generates a number of sculpted possibilities.

Mandalas, concentric designs that originated in ancient India, are growing ever more popular in therapy, meditation, and relaxation exercises. Coloring the mandalas in this book offers more than a mere artistic pastime--working with mandalas helps increase self-knowledge and interior peace.