The Art of Joaquín Torres-García

The Art of Joaquín Torres-García
Author: Aarnoud Rommens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1315527553
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Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: "Abstract Spirit." Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter's aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García's theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García's artworks as a critique on the artist's own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of "pure" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.

The Life and Works of José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi

The Life and Works of José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi
Author: Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 151282044X
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A Mexican literary and political figure of the early nineteenth century whose writings present the best existing portrayal of Spanish colonial society.

Nuestras Voces Latino Plays Volume Two

Nuestras Voces Latino Plays Volume Two
Author: Marcelo Rodriguez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1300222999
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Two new US Latino/a plays from venerable theatre company Spanish Repertory Theatre and its MetLife Foundation Playwriting Competition. This bilingual edition collects the plays WILD IN WICHITA and LETTERS TO A MOTHER.

Juan José: Drama En Tres Actos Y En Prosa de Joaquín Dicenta

Juan José: Drama En Tres Actos Y En Prosa de Joaquín Dicenta
Author: Joaquín Dicenta
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN:
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¡Desbloquea el misterio y la pasión con ""Juan José: Drama en tres actos y en prosa"" de Joaquín Dicenta! En este drama en tres actos, Joaquín Dicenta nos lanza a un mundo de intriga y suspense, donde la pasión y el amor se ven enfrentados a la autoridad y la moralidad. La historia sigue la vida de Juan José, un joven apasionado que se ve atrapado en un dilema moral cuando se enamora de una mujer casada. A medida que leas, descubrirás cómo Juan José lucha por mantener su amor secreto, mientras que su amada lucha por liberarse de su matrimonio aburrido. El drama culmina en un enfrentamiento emocionante entre la pasión y la moralidad, que pondrá a prueba la capacidad de Juan José para elegir entre su amor y su conciencia. Dicenta nos presenta un mundo de personajes complejos y contradictorios, donde la pasión y el amor se ven mezclados con la ambición y la codicia. A medida que avanza la trama, descubrirás secretos y mentiras que cambiarán para siempre el rumbo de las vidas de los personajes. Con su estilo directo y sencillo, Dicenta nos sumerge en un mundo de drama y suspense, donde la emoción es palpable en cada página. "Juan José" es un clásico del teatro español que ha sido reestrenado en numerosas ocasiones y sigue siendo una obra maestra que no pierde su poder emocional. A medida que te adentras en este mundo emocionante, prepárate para experimentar una variedad de sentimientos: compasión, indignación, sorpresa y tensión. "Juan José" es una obra que te hará reflexionar sobre la naturaleza del amor y la moralidad, y te hará recordar por qué este drama es considerado un clásico del teatro español. No te pierdas esta oportunidad de explorar uno de los dramas más importantes del teatro español. Consigue tu copia ahora y ¡inicia un viaje emocionante por el mundo de la pasión y el drama!

Transnational South America

Transnational South America
Author: Ori Preuss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317435206
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At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America: the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis, and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued, brought segments of South America’s capital cities not only close to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the national and regional levels.

I, Joaquín

I, Joaquín
Author: Melvin Litton
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Before Jesse James or Billy the Kid, there was Joaquín Murrieta—lover, bandit, revolutionary. On July 25, 1853, a troop of California Rangers killed and beheaded the young bandit. It was believed his army numbered in the hundreds and that he planned to sweep the country south to Sonora. Thinking the matter ended, the Rangers preserved his head in a bucket of whiskey and rode to Sacramento to collect their reward. Yet with his death his fame only grew, along with rumors of his ghost in haunt of the Rangers. At once a breath and echo of the legend, a soul’s jornada, I, Joaquín reveals the bandit’s voice, his reflections on his life and death, his love and vengeance, and the lone purgatory from which he speaks. Listen as he tells of his birth in a small village along the Magdalena. Of his youthful quest for mustangs through the Sierra Madres, of his love for Rosita and the horrid day that sets him on the path to war. Listen as he confesses his murders and mistresses, his head encased in a jar of aguardiente de cabeza, his voice present therein. Listen...for Joaquín has a tale. “In a style as plain as an old man’s memory and with a young man’s brimming heart, Melvin Litton takes us to the landscape of the soul where history and myth meet”—Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America