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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Un informe de primera mano de los años que Michael Krohnen pasó al servicio de Krishnamurti. Este retrato biográfico corrige la insidiosa inclinación de convertir a Krishnamurti en un icono. Las descripciones y citas tomadas de las conversaciones informales que mantenía el maestro durante la comida contribuyen a una lectura tan placentera como seria. Se trasluce en estas páginas la esencia de las enseñanzas de Krishnamurti.

Dos breves textos que trazan un retrato de los rostros múltiples pero intercambiables de la opresión; una genealogía de algunos de los conflictos que aún hoy nos sacuden. En A lo lejos el cielo del sur, Joseph Andras empieza a andar por París persiguiendo a un fantasma; el de Nguyên Ai Quôc, un joven vietnamita que llegó a la ciudad en 1917, o en 1918, puede incluso que en 1919, y cuyo nombre han olvidado los mismos que recuerdan el nombre que tomó más adelante: Ho Chi Minh, líder independentista y emblema del comunismo. Mientras busca al rebelde que precedió al revolucionario,...

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...