Performance: un arte del yo

Naive art became recognized as such at the end of the 19th century. Created by artists who often lacked formal education, and characterized by a simplicity and spontaneity far removed from formal, institutionally approved styles, naive art is more popular today than ever. This oversize book honors a wide range of important artists of this distinctive form from many countries and time periods, including Henri Rosseau, Seraphine de Senlis, Andre Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Joan Miro, Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.

El texto presenta los conceptos estéticos elaborados por el pensamiento europeo, su esencia, su evolución, su desarrollo y sus mutuas relaciones. El autor no se limita a la estética general de los filósofos, sino que incluye la de los teóricos del arte y de los artistas, deducida a través de sus palabras y su obra. El libro incluye textos originales que, en edición bilingüe, constituyen el fundamento teórico de la obra.

Les pel·lícules de Jordá sacsegen l'espectador, remouen sentiments i desperten idees. El seu cinema fixa la mirada en els temes que incomoden, com la mort, el suïcidi, la lluita impossible contra el capital, la bogeria o la pedofília. Aquest director,

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...