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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Pulitzer winner Wilkerson,


Caste, Origen our discontents
attracts at the works of anthropologists.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In this effective and relatively well timed social history, Pulitzer winner Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns) investigates the origins, evolution, and internal workings of America’s “shape-shifting, unspoken” caste system.

Tracking the inception of the country’s race-based “rating of human value” to the advent of the primary slave deliver in 1619, Wilkerson attracts at the works of anthropologists, geneticists, and social economists to find the arbitrariness of racial divisions, and reveals startling parallels to the caste structures of India and Nazi Germany.

The Nazis, Wilkerson notes, studied America’s restrictive immigration and anti-miscegenation legal guidelines to expand their very own racial purity edicts, and have been inspired via way of means of the “American custom of lynching” and “knack for retaining an air of sturdy innocence withinside the wake of mass death.”

While India abolished formal legal guidelines that described its caste structures withinside the 1940s, and America exceeded civil rights measures withinside the ’60s, their respective hierarchies stay on, Wilkerson writes, in “hearts and habits, establishments and infrastructures.”

Wilkerson cites research displaying that black Americans have the best fees of stress-caused persistent sicknesses of all ethnic corporations withinside the U.S., and that a 3rd of African Americans preserve antiblack biases in opposition to themselves.

Incisive autobiographical anecdotes and charming pics of black pioneers along with baseball pitcher Satchel Paige and husband-and-spouse anthropologists Allison and Elizabeth Davis monitor the steep fee U.S. society will pay for restricting the ability of black Americans. This mesmerizing exposé merits a extensive and impassioned readership.  Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

Vandalismo en el arte

Vandalo ataca obra de arte de Picasso. La acción vandalica fue grabada por uno de los trabajadores de la Menil
arte
Mujer en un sillón Rojo
La Obra de Picasso Mujer en un sillón Rojo fue atacada por un desconocido en la prestigiosa Menil Collection en la ciudad de Houston. El vándalo ataco la obra con spray reproduciendo la palabra "Conquista" después de dibujar un torero y un toro.

La obra del genial Picasso "Mujer en un sillón Rojo" fue trasladada inmediatamente al laboratorio de conservación de la pinacoteca, donde se comenzó inmediatamente a la restauración del cuadro.

La acción vandalica fue grabada por uno de los trabajadores de la Menil con un celular y cuyo video fue exhibido en YouTube el mismo día. Asimismo el ataque a la obra de arte de Picasso fue totalmente grabada por las cámaras de seguridad de la institución.

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El mundo del arte celebra a Biden

El mundo del arte celebra la victoria de Biden.
Martha Rosler


Artistas, coleccionistas, responsables políticos y propietarios de galerías comparten sus reacciones después de las reñidas eleccion


El mundo del arte se regocija con la victoria de Biden en la presidencia de Estados Unidos .

 Artistas, coleccionistas, responsables políticos y propietarios de galerías comparten sus reacciones después de las reñidas elecciones.

   “Las ranas han logrado saltar de la olla hirviendo justo a tiempo ”, dijo la artista Martha Rosler a The Art Newspaper Foto: Martha Rosler

 Desde Los Ángeles a Nueva York, miles de estadounidenses salieron a las calles para celebrar la victoria de Joseph Biden en las elecciones estadounidenses del sábado, cuando su liderazgo en Pennsylvania, cada vez más lento, finalmente le aseguró los votos necesarios en el Colegio Electoral para ganar la presidencia y sacar a Donald Trump  desde la Casa Blanca después de un solo período presidencial.

Hubo una avalancha similar de reacciones positivas del mundo del arte para el nuevo presidente electo y su compañera de fórmula, la ex senadora de California Kamala Harris, junto con advertencias de que todavía hay problemas urgentes que deben resolverse en todo el país.  "Las ranas han logrado saltar de la olla hirviendo justo a tiempo", dijo la artista Martha Rosler a The Art Newspaper, compartiendo el collage de fotos que hizo, arriba.


El arte figurativo

3 Características del Arte figurativo.
Weeping Woman,
By Pablo Picasso, año
1937.

"El término arte figurativo se ha utilizado particularmente desde la llegada del arte abstracto."



1. El término arte figurativo se ha utilizado particularmente desde la llegada del arte abstracto para referirse a artistas que retienen aspectos del mundo real como su tema, aunque en un sentido general figurativo también se aplica retrospectivamente a todo el arte antes del arte abstracto.

2. El arte figurativo moderno puede verse como distinto del realismo moderno en que el arte figurativo utiliza modismos modernos, mientras que los realistas modernos trabajan en estilos anteriores al posimpresionismo (más o menos). De hecho, el arte figurativo moderno es más o menos idéntico a la corriente general del expresionismo que se puede rastrear a lo largo del siglo XX en adelante.

3. Picasso después de 1920, aproximadamente, es el gran ejemplo de la pintura figurativa moderna, y Alberto Giacometti desde 1940 es el gran escultor figurativo. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la figuración se puede rastrear a través del trabajo de Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud y los otros artistas de la Escuela de Londres, y a través del arte pop, el neoexpresionismo y la pintura de nuevos espíritus.


The Address Book

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power


Deirdre Mask

Journalist Mask’s wonderful and wide-ranging debut investigates the records of avenue addresses and their “strength to determine who counts, who doesn’t, and why.” A brilliant storyteller, Mask describes the “multisensory maps” historical Romans used to navigate their town and the origins of avenue names in medieval England (Frying Pan Alley became domestic to ironmongers; Booty Lane became “named both after bootmakers, Viking booty, or the Booty family”). 


 Shifting from the historic report to the cutting-edge world, Mask files efforts to assign avenue addresses withinside the slums of Kolkata, India, and takes readers to Japan, in which towns are prepared through blocks and the absence of avenue names makes navigation challenging. 

Other subjects encompass the origins of the cutting-edge postal system, virtual addresses of the future, and the problems confronted through homeless humans in an technology while a domestic deal with is “a manner for society to test which you aren't simply someone however the man or woman you assert you are.” Mask’s fluid narration and surprising studies discover the significance of an factor of every day existence that maximum humans take for granted, and he or she profiles a extraordinary array of activists, historians, and artists whose paintings intersects with the evolution and which means of avenue addresses. This evocative records casts its situation in an entire new light.


The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Marc Chagall from Paris to AGO


"Chagall changed his colours completely. They were more vivid, they were brighter. And he was so happy to have this new inspiration...and his colours really start singing, as someone said at the time," Lampe told CBC News.


Although he was in Paris in the golden age that led to abstract art, Cubism and surrealism, Chagall never abandoned representation entirely, she said. He was influenced by his contemporaries in France, but wanted to keep his work rooted in folk art and accessible to all, she added.


“To look at Chagall makes people happy because they saw all these figures in the air, the acrobats, the dances and particularly the colours,” Lampe said.


In the exhibit, she set out to connect Chagall to his contemporaries in Russia, including Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova and others. There are elements of his work that strongly reflect these avant-garde painters, she said."



   
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