Edited by Ariel Jimenez. Text by Hugo Achugar, Roldan Esteva-Grillet, Elias Pino Iturrieta, Marco Negron, Luis Perez-Oramas, Sandra Pinardi, Marco Pinto, Rafael Castillo Zapata.
As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely intertwined with his work as an art critic, from his first major collection of poems in 1954, through his Concrete and Neoconcrete poems from 1957 to 1959 and the "Neoconcrete Manifesto" and the "Theory of the Non-Object" of 1959. All are ...
A photographer, broadcasting pioneer, author, publicist, collector, designer and more, Alfredo Cortina (1903-88) was a truly remarkable figure in 20th-century Venezuela. This volume compiles his photographs, a treasure trove of a testimony to the Caracas of his time.
Derecho mercantil es una obra colectiva, fruto del trabajo en equipo de un grupo de profesionales universitarios de la disciplina. Unitaria por su inspiración en unos mismos principios, conceptos fundamentales, método y sistema, la pluralidad de su autoría le aporta una rica variedad doctrinal que, sin demérito de la homogeneidad de la obra, contribuye a una más completa exposición de la materia. Contiene un tratamiento sustantivo de todo el D...
A leading practitioner of Kinetic and Op art, and one of Latin America's foremost artists, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923) traveled in western Europe throughout the 1950s, absorbing Bauhaus color theory and trends in geometric abstraction, and returned to Venezuela in 1957 to help initiate the massive wave of experiment in abstract, Concrete, Op and Kinetic art that art history outside of Latin America is only just beginning...
