La Sonrisa del Tiempo

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...

One day some stretched-out gentlemen come and ask a father to be king. It seems a good opportunity, but in the end one must choose between being king and being a father. In a simple story, the authors invite us to reflect on the relationship of fathers and sons.

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

Dedicado a la memoria de Julio García Espinosa. Narra el devenir de su vida consagrada al cine cubano y latinoamericano, contada en primera persona por el cineasta, en una larga entrevista que constituye la columna vertebral del libro. A ella se integra, la compilación de valiosos textos de y sobre Julio, en su mayoría inéditos. El libro da a conocer no solo al valioso cineasta, sino al defensor de la cultura popular, al analista desprejuiciado de los medios de comunicación, al amante de la música y el teatro, al agudo polemista, pedagogo y ensayista, y al fundador constante de obras...