Diego Rivera

Nueva traducción del libro que marca el inicio de la Historia del arte como disciplina académica. Incluye la reproducción de los grabados de las dos primeras ediciones.

"For his fourth year in school, Elliot must go to Windbourgh, the capital of Aire, which is located in the clouds."

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...

The introduction places the collection in the context of Veen's emblematic oeuvre, and considers the book's contribution to the Dutch love-emblem tradition.