Taxidermia en el Museo de La Plata.

En esta edición se intenta documentar en orden cronológico de incorporación laboral, la actividad de aquellos preparadores que desarrollaron tareas en el Taller de Taxidermia, el que, a partir de la década de los 30 del pasado siglo, pasó a depender de la División Zoología Vertebrados; se incluyen la imágenes de algunas de las piezas por ellos realizadas y la documentación disponible. Probablemente habrá omisiones y desde luego existen huecos que no pudimos completar, debido a que nos basamos en documentación incompleta y relatos de integrantes de la División Zoología Vertebrados, algunos que ya cesaron en sus funciones, sin la posibilidad de recurrir a más fuentes. Es nuestra intención plasmar una parte importante de la historia de nuestra institución, de la que se desconoce la dedicación y paciencia necesarias por parte de los involucrados para efectuar una tarea casi artística, para que al fin los ejemplares puedan exhibirse o pasar a formar parte de las colecciones científicas, además de la posterior conservación y tratamiento especial que requieren.

Dibujantes del Museo de La Plata: Luis Gerado Pagano.

Esta serie tiene como propósito mostrar diferentes expresiones artísticas relacionadas con la Ictiología nacional y regional, generadas en diferentes épocas y que surgen por diversas motivaciones personales que, en algún caso, muestran casi con exactitud a los modelos que inspiraron la obra, en otras, por lo contrario, responden a la imaginación y creatividad del autor. En este artículo se documenta la prometedora faceta artística de Luis Gerardo Pagano, a quien ya podemos considerar un artista platense. Su habilidad para el dibujo se manifiesta en sus ilustraciones científicas y en las obras sin editar que realiza casi como un juego. Aquí presentamos algunas de ellas con el objeto de dar a conocer estos personajes ocultos para la mayoría de la gente, en muchos casos aún dentro del mismo ambiente y con la esperanza de que prosiga desarrollando su trayectoria que seguramente será exitosa si él se lo propone.

Luis Manuel López

A mes y medio de mi jubilación presento este artículo que para mí era una de las tantas deudas pendientes, pero ésta en particular acentuaba mi sentido de pertenencia. Se trata de un artísta prácticamente desconocido nacido en Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires el 16 de julio de 1921 y fallecido en la misma ciudad el 26 de julio de 1995. Por cuestiones de vida, que no viene al caso mencionar, dejó de lado su verdadera vocación como principal labor y casi sin preparación previa la llevó a cabo como hobby sólo en su tiempo libre. Me pregunto cómo hubiera sido su producción artística o hasta dónde habría llegado si hubiera estudiado en alguna escuela de arte o practicado en algún reconocido atelier. No es de mi conocimiento que haya expuesto y estoy segura que de haberlo hecho, público y jurados se habrían enamorado como yo de sus pinturas y dibujos. Demuestra su habilidad y capacidad innatas, dones reservados para unos pocos, y su voluntad de plasmar lo que evidentemente le emanaba desde sus entrañas. Aquí se presentan parte de, a mi criterio, sus excelentes obras, complementadas con imágenes de él y de su contexto afectivo. No se dispone del nombre, año de realización y/o técnica utilizada de algunas de ellas, y muchas otras lamentablemente se perdieron o fueron donadas sin ser fotografiadas. Debo aclarar que Hugo López no me permitía editarlo porque consideraba que no correspondía por tratarse de su padre. Ante mi insistencia, recién ahora asintió, pidiéndome que yo fuera la única responsable. Pronta acepté antes de que se arrepienta y por ello, aparezco como única compiladora. Es mi esperanza que se conozca en el mayor grado posible el enorme artista contenido en este hombre que en soledad pintaba o dibujaba principalmente para él mismo, y luego, para su entorno, sin poder concretar mayores aspiraciones. Si es cierto que, como algunos dicen, cuando alguien ya no está nos observa desde alguna parte del universo, estoy segurísima que se sentirá un poco recompensado y esbozará una sonrisa de satisfacción.

A importância da educação pela arte no desenvolvimento de competências em alunos com necessidades educativas especificas

Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação: Educação Especial, área de especialização em Domínio Cognitivo e Motor

Molino con tracción de bueyes y otras formas de preparación de la pasta de arcilla en Ráquira - Boyacá.

6 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color

C 171 INST-D 2013. 352 Aprendices, herramientas de trabajo y muestras de prototipos de talla en carbón.

35 fotografías a color.

Art and Social Work: an intervention programme for transforming society’s vision to include people with early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s

This paper presents a program centred on arts and education as tools in social work for the inclusion of people with earlyonset dementia and Alzheimer’s. The objective of the programme is to eradicate the stigma and myths associated with the disease.The program is part of the Junta de Castilla y León and the European Social Fund’s ARS Project (Arte y Salud Alzheimer; Alzheimer’s Art & Health). The programme presents a series of evaluated artistic and educational activities that can be undertaken by people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and that can also be used by caregivers and family when working with this group of people, with the aim of improving their wellbeing, self-esteem and quality of life.

Typical reggaeton in Morocco: forms of female political affirmation throught dance

Through an ethnographic account, this text analyses how social dance may become a discourse involving the cultural affirmation of a subordinate group. It describes how a group of girls faced with a complex of outlooks that construed them as Moroccan, Muslim or unattractive —or as objects of education and intervention— responded by affirming their own culture with an unanticipated corporal discourse. The way in which looking construes bodies is explored through metaphors: a hand that touches, a chisel that sculpts, a whip that lashes and a cobweb that controls and traps bodies. Owing to this political dimension of dance, workshops can also be an oppressive and silencing tool; to prevent this, the article concludes with a series of recommendations to implement dance in social intervention processes.

Social Work and theatre: considering intersections

Theatre is a cultural and artistic form that involves a process of communication between creators and is received in a space and time located in the public sphere, which has meant that, over the centuries, it has acted as a space for expression, exchange and debate regarding all manner of ideas, causes and struggles. Implicit within this process are processes of expression, creation and reception, by way of which people demonstrate, analyse and question ways of seeing and understanding life, and ways of being and existing in the world. This gives rise to educational, cultural, social and political potential, which has been endorsed in numerous studies and investigations. In this work, in which theoretical orientation is established through a review of the relevant literature, we consider different intersections that occur between theatre and social work in order to also show that dramatic and theatrical expression offers substantive methodologies for achieving some objectives of social work, particularly in areas such as critical literacy, reflexivity and recognition, awareness raising, social participation, personal and/or community development, ownership of cultural capital and access to personal and social wellbeing.

Society, theatre and Social Work: beauty will save us

Three different worlds, sometimes concentric and often intersecting —society, theatre and the art of performance— and social work. Diverse worlds that live, reflect and self-reflect and interact, and can also afford an opportunity for meeting, misunderstanding and confrontation, and above all offer the possibility of profound change.This article considers the experience of a theatre company that has spent more than three years moving at the limits of these three universes. To these three worlds can be added an infinite number of words that fill them with meaning and significance: territory, meeting, diversity and search. An artistic experience that has chosen to focus on creating scenarios for debate and to examine the difficulties, the human contradictions and the constant and inexhaustible confrontation with human experience. At the heart of this theatrical activity is all of this, seeking the balance between narration, meeting, investigation and the artistic dimension. This meeting between society, theatre and social work also contains the search for sustainability of this cultural business, in an Italy that has been destroyed by a crisis that is not merely economic, but also of values and, above all, of role models. The guiding theme, though not always made explicit, is always present and essential: the search for beauty.

The media on violence against women: the paradigm of thinness

This article attempts to show that the aesthetic pressure through the media, especially exerted on women, can be defined as gender violence; and the consequences of thinness paradigm of our society and obesity stigma that this entails have for their bio-psycho-social health.

Reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art in art education

This article focuses on the reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art as a creative process, seeking to analyse which effects of meaning the articulations between the visual and sound systems produce, and the meaning that children give to then. It describes a video art, identifying the languages that compose it and the relationships that link them. Such reading exercise had as corpus of analysis the Chair video art, by Masaru Ozaki, and counted with the theoretical and methodological support of the discourse semiotics, especially with studies on assembly procedures that articulate visual and auditory languages. Also, it presents a focal study with the meanings that a group of children gave to the video art. The findings indicate the importance of including the reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art at school through the problematization of effects of meaning produced by the interrelation between different languages. And they suggest some subsidies that allow teachers from different areas of knowledge to reflect about the visuality in their pedagogical practice; the choice of the audiovisual materials taken to the classroom and other ways of seeing these texts edited.

Art as an educative and social tool

Since remote times, certain sectors of society have been exposed to inequality and vulnerability, where adequate intervention processes have become conspicuous because of their absence. Nowadays, current societies have the responsibility of contributing, based on their experience and knowledge, with more efficient policies and programs that improve the life quality of the most disadvantaged. It is here where art and its different tools play a very important role, not only on a physical level, but also as an education tool that allows the development of emotional, mental and communicative skills. The aim of this paper is to make clear the potential of art as an instrument of social and educational intervention. It starts by showing worldwide-collected experience related to education and arts, and then, it acquaints the reader with two parallel intervention projects that worked with youths under social vulnerability conditions. These interventions were developed based on a qualitative research (Grounded theory), using as methodology “The Artistic Mediation” with emphasis on body language. This methodology helped researchers to get close to the participants and to know their experiences and emotions. At the same time, it was possible to evidence the positive effects of educative interventions through art. These workshops were based on an artistic methodology especially focused on body language. Data in this work is qualitative, and as such, it permits a special approach to the personal and emotional experiences of the participants; clearly showing the positive effects of the referenced practice on them.

Rastros del exilio e inspiración autobiográfica en las historias de "Las confidentes" (1997) de Angelina Muñiz

La vida y obra de Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (1939) han sido fuertemente influenciadas por el exilio sufrido por sus padres. Por azares del destino, la escritora nació en Hyères, Francia y enseguida la familia se instaló en París en espera del término de la guerra de España. Después de la trágica muerte del hermano mayor y una vez Franco en el poder, se embarcan rumbo a Cuba, donde pasan tres años paradisíacos alejados de España, de la guerra y del resto del mundo. Finalmente en 1942, se trasladan a México donde se establecen de forma definitiva. El libro Las confidentes (1997) contiene quince historias que van desarrollando algunos de estos puntos decisivos en la personalidad de la “hispanomexicana”. En ocasiones los elementos autobiográficos sobrepasan la personalidad de los protagonistas y en otras el exilio es el motor de la narración.

The "Art" of Criticism: Rubén Darío and his Unknown Chronicles of the 1895 Salon for "La Prensa"

With the impetus that has led recent studies on Latin American Modernism to a reevaluation of the sense of cultural fluxes from the modernity capitals to its peripheries –discarding categories such as “influence”, “exotism” and “ivory tower”, stereotypes that have clouded critical understanding of this aesthetics for decades- the present study intends to investigate a persistent practice of the main writers of the movement. This practice is modernist pictorial criticism, a genre that will be approached through the analysis of an unknown corpus: the seven chronicles Rubén Darío published in the journal La Prensa on occasion of the third art exposition of the Ateneo de Buenos Aires. Our hypothesis is that the rare creators of images portrayed by Darío by the end of 1895 work as a visual counterpoint of the eccentric writers’ biographical sketches that a year later will be part of the fundamental volume Los raros (1896). In this early “salon”, which we reproduce in its entirety, accompanied by explanatory notes, the leader of Modernism rehearses and consolidates his transcultural work with the universal tradition –now applied to the Salons (1845-1860) by Charles Baudelaire and to the monumental project by John Ruskin in Modern painters (1843-1860)- to legitimate, from another subgenre of Modernist criticism, a new figure of the critic, in dissent with the Enlightenment model of the writer.