From its inception, photography has been both a medium of documentation and of artistic creation. However, it did not acquire its standing as a large-scale reproducible and publishable art until the interwar period of this century, when the work of artists and publishers contributed to the creation of an international style. Photography, photomontage, and the photogram were techniques that established a new world of visual communication, a new world of modernity. Fotografia Publica: Photography in Print chronicles photographic works as they appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, posters, and other printed media, whether for recording events, artistic experimentation, or propaganda. The artists included form an international whos who of the 20s and 30s from the Russian Constructivists to the photographers of the American W.P.A. and F.S.A. Beautifully organized and designed, this book presents artist biographies, histories of the publications in which their creations were first published, and adetailed and informative essay by the Horacio Fernandez, curator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Colección De Documentos Inéditos Para La Historia De Chile Desde El… Excerpt from Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de Chile Desde el Viaje de Magallanes Hasta la Batalla de Maipo, 1518-1818, Vol. 18: Valdivia y Sus Compañeros, XI E después de lo susodicho, en este dicho día, mes e' año dicho, yo, el dicho escribano, hice la dicha citación…
El Monstruo De Florencia El caso del Monstruo de Florencia es uno de los más sorprendentes e inquietantes del siglo XX. Durante diez años, un asesino en serie sembró el pánico en la capital de la Toscana. Dejó una estela de catorce cadáveres, desató una investigación criminal larga, costosa, que arruinó la vida de…
La Gran Y Legendaria Juana De Arco Este libro tiene los elementos de ficción y no ficción. Este es uno de los mejores libros biográficos históricos. Esta es una larga novela biográfica que consta de aproximadamente 160000 palabras. Juana de Arco (en francés: Jeanne d'Arc pronunciado [ʒan daʁk], c. 1412 - 30 de mayo de 1431), apodada…
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
La Biblia Envenenada The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his…
Realismo Magico, Vallenato Y Violencia Politica En El Caribe Colombiano By reading Caribbean novels and ethnographies I trace the conformation of a critical tradition which influences aesthetics and social thought, and makes public the relation between cultural myths and social inequalities. In contrast to Alejo Carpentiers image of the Caribbean as a sanctuary where intellectuals escape from western rationalism, Garcia…
