Un Tesoro lleno de Esperanza

Platón, Jenofonte, Aristóteles ¿cómo iban a suponer que buscaríamos en sus obras los vestigios para la reconstrucción del pasado del libros y del negocio librero? El comercio de libros entre los griegos, la sabrosa labor de los editores romanos, las librerías de Atenas y Roma y las míticas bibliotecas son la materia misma de este libelo, en el que la pasión devota de Alfonso Reyes por el mundo de la Antigüedad clásica alcanza su forma más breve.

"Catalog of the exhibition inaugurating temporary exhibition program at the Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in Mexico City. Features 66 works by the North American artist who emigrated to Mexico in 1924, honoring 91st anniversary of his birth. Includes presentation by Dolores Olmedo, and essays by José Suárez Sánchez (director of the museum) and Gilberto Bosques Saldívar. Chronology by Francisco Reyes Palma"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

Anthological edition with 10 texts produced from the 1970's to present by noted artist, academic, and critic Luis Camnitzer. The critical essays are centered in art although examined from different perspectives. The author reflects, criticizes and deconstructs the way we understand the artistic system, its power nets and the incidence of the commercial market. "Camnitzer shares with us the condition of looking to a dominant cultural knot, that is, it is inserted in our own same measure in what is known as the 'Colonial relationship'"--P.6.