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Thirteen of the finest collectors from Argentina converse with artists, editors and critics defining Argentine art and collecting today. "Featured in this book are 13 collections of different sizes and shapes, colors and ages, profile an intent, each with an unique personality and sensibility...The diversity of the selection goes on to reflect the changing landscape of collecting and the evolving shape of 21st century culture and lifestyle"--P. 7.

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...

A stunning presentation of works by contemporary Chinese artists, from the collection of the Swiss diplomat Uli Sigg, one of the worlds most influential collectors of Chinese contemporary art. This book reflects on the current state of art in China today through a selection of over 50 works by different artists produced between 1986 and 2006 a period of enormous economic and social change in the country with worldwide implications. This book shows Chinese avant-garde art against the backdrop of Chinas radical social and economic changes. Many of the works reveal the tension between current...

El Congreso del Estado de Jalisco aprobó declarar el 2008 "Año de José Clemente Orozco". Orozco es el gran muralista de México y de Latinoamérica. Nació en Ciudad Guzmán, el 23 de noviembre de 1883, fue testigo y actor del periodo revolucionario mexicano; y, al mismo tiempo, también fue cofundador de otra revolución: la de la pintura nacional. Junto con el Doctor Atl, Siqueiros y Rivera —principalmente—, provocó un renacer en el arte, que desembocó en el muralismo mexicano, capítulo de la pintura mundial que impactó a cientos de artistas en diversos países. A partir de los...