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The Space río_ Mills Stables hosts on Monday, January 27, a new session of Readings Art, at 18:30.
Javier Castro's recommended reading for the occasion was "The roads are part of the landscape" of John Brinckerhoff, published by Gustavo Gili GG low, which translates as Moses Bridge.
The Art Readings are held every month since 2011, to "The roads are part of the landscape" is the first of 2014.
The readings were born with the need to organize readings of contemporary art and that people close to the study and artistic thought, bring us their views on the chosen texts, selecting your preferences and your favorite authors.
The requirement analysis raises the art of today, implies the need for effort viewer in understanding the texts.
Another objective of the project is to provide the opportunity for the museum to have a line of study and reflection on this very diffuse for analysis of visual arts season, mainly from the past 60 years.
One of the guests, for many months, has been professor of Art History, University of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, a literary benchmark nationally.
With him was read critics and writers such as José Luis Brea, Nicolas Bourriaud, Mario Perniola, Tom Wolfe, Felix de Azua, etc..
The new guest, participating since last October 2013, is Javier Castro, co-director of publisher born in our city, Micromegas.
With him were read texts Stefan Zweig, Italo Calvino and Junichiro Tanizaki.
The trial will be addressed on Monday made a historical journey through the meaning they have acquired the paths and roads built as part of the human environment to become the capital of modern infrastructure element are today.
With a sharp, concise writing, John Brinckerhoff Jackson has guided generations of readers to generate a new awareness of everyday environments as important crucibles of cultural significance, and has shed light on the forces that have shaped the United States.
The questions in this test are intended to provide users of the paths, roads and highways, and refers to the sense that charge crossing places.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) was an essayist, cultural geographer and interpreter of the American built environment.
After studying at the University of Wisconsin, BA in History and Literature at Harvard University and completed a year of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Landscape founded in 1951, the magazine that published the American landscape issues, from the impact of the automobile, mobile homes or shopping centers to landscape studies or ordinary U.S. buildings.
He is the author of numerous books on the vernacular in the United States, among which include The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics (1980), Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984) and A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (1994).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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