This catalogue focuses on painting from 1968 with its great social, political, and aesthetic changes and the beginning of a military dictatorship that would last until the return of democracy in 1989. Each of the artists expresses his or her own identity as a Panamanian. Nevertheless, there is a cohesiveness to their art, each painter representing an important element in the highly textured, nuanced perspective of contemporary painting in Panama.
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…
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…
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…
Croniñón Little Croniñón helps his clan hunt and kill a mammoth and at the same time learns to paint the walls of the cave he lives in.
La Lucha De Clases Existe... ¡y La Han Ganado Los Ricos! La desigualdad creciente, la destrucción de las clases medias, el menosprecio por el medio ambiente, los retrocesos sociales hacen pensar que, efectivamente, hubo una lucha de clases que a la postre ¡HAN GANADO LOS RICOS! En el modelo de desarrollo que se instauró después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y…
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
