Cuban art was transformed at the end of the 1970s when it evolved from a propaganda tool to a critical and analytical independent means of expression. In the avant garde of this renaissance was Flavio Garciandia. This volume is a much-needed retrospective of the iconic artist's prolific career.

Spanish photographer Fernando Manso captures Madrid's familiar sights enveloped by the light of the city's legendarily clear skies, which was famously portrayed in the paintings of Velazquez. In this edition, more than 120 of Manso's images illustrate works by renowned Spanish writers, including Mesonero Romanos, Salvador Dali and Francisco Umbral, which also evoke these mythically luminescent horizons.

«Since the 1990s, «banquete_» (a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and other thinkers, named for the Spanish word for feast, banquet) has aimed to explore the convergences among biological, social, technological and cultural thought, giving rise to collaborative research, production and dissemination--including over 30 digital art projects, all surveyed here.»

In his works, the American artist Josiah McElheny questions the legacy of modernity from the standpoint of his practice as a master of glass, starting from the confluence of design, science and art. McElheny studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and increased his knowledge of traditional glass manufacturing techniques by studying with such masters as Ronald Wilkin. This book presents Island Universe, an installation composed of five chromed aluminium and blown glass sculptures. The structures form spheres that depict the grouping of galaxies in the universe and lights symbolizing quasars (the most brilliant objects known to man). The starting point of this work are the chandeliers inside the New York Metropolitan Opera House, designed by Lobmeyr in 1965, the same year in which the first data in support of the Big Bang theory were made public. The work functions as a model of that theory of the origin of the universe.