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Product Description: The complexity of a country in which violence and internal armed conflict coexist with enormous cultural, natural, and human riches is captured in this illuminating essay by a Colombian poet. A refreshed view of Colombia is proposed, shedding light on the possibility of a future in which the nation may become reconciled with itself...read more
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9789588156644 | Villegas Editores, July 1, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The complexity of a country in which violence and internal armed conflict coexist with enormous cultural, natural, and human riches is captured in this illuminating essay by a Colombian poet.
Product Description: Traveling the country in search of the most significant aspects of Colombia's colonial ranch houses, this book brings to life the convergence of decisive elements of the country's past and tradition. These ranch houses were the scene of struggles, epiphanies, and downfalls in the country's historyâall evoked through the point of view of a historian specializing in architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789589393345 | Italian edition edition (Villegas Editores, June 30, 2006), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Traveling the country in search of the most significant aspects of Colombia's colonial ranch houses, this book brings to life the convergence of decisive elements of the country's past and tradition.
Product Description: The work of Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret is lovingly portrayed in this homage to the man and six decades of his art. The incorporation of aluminum, industrial paint, and visible assembling techniques in his 1950s works in Mallorca and New York is discussed along with details of his journey across America, return to Colombia, and artistic approximation of Latin American literature...read more
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9789588156576 | Villegas Editores, April 28, 2005, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The work of Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret is lovingly portrayed in this homage to the man and six decades of his art.
Product Description: This collection of Fernando Botero's work on the theme of terrorism and violence in Colombia include 23 oil paintings and 27 drawings, which he has donated to the National Museum of Colombia in Bogotá. Botero did so out of the strong conviction that he would not profit from the countryâs suffering by selling them...read more
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9789588156491 | Villegas Editores, August 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This collection of Fernando Botero's work on the theme of terrorism and violence in Colombia include 23 oil paintings and 27 drawings, which he has donated to the National Museum of Colombia in Bogotá.
Product Description: This book is the perfect combination of two dreams attained by men: their constant quest to reach for the heights and the majestic and always vivid Cartagena de Indias. Of the first dream, one can say that it conjugates the whole of human imagination; of the latter, all of its ingenuousness...read more
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9789588156415 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book is the perfect combination of two dreams attained by men: their constant quest to reach for the heights and the majestic and always vivid Cartagena de Indias.
A deluxe compendium of more than one hundred of the finest works by the acclaimed artist explores a world of feminine beauty in portraits featuring his joyfully rotund figures, offering a selection of paintings that includes a number of unpublished works, archival photographs, special vellum inserts, and an introduction by respected Latin American author Carlos Fuentes.
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9789588156453 | Italian edition edition (Villegas Editores, June 30, 2003), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Includes more than one hundred eighty paintings and drawings of women, all of them chosen by Fernando Botero himself, and four drawings on acetate inserts created exclusively for this book.
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9789588156149 | Villegas Editores, June 30, 2003, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Features photographs of elegant salons, corridors, offices, and residences in the embassies to the United States of forty-one countries, representing the best of each nation's art and design.
Product Description: In this extraordinary book we see the work of six Guatemalan architects, six creative voices who, in an individual or collective form, have redefined and given a poetic spatial quality to the contemporary architecture of their country...read more
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9789588156095 | 1 edition (Villegas Editores, February 1, 2003), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In this extraordinary book we see the work of six Guatemalan architects, six creative voices who, in an individual or collective form, have redefined and given a poetic spatial quality to the contemporary architecture of their country.
Product Description: "The proliferation and diffusion of mestizo themes have become universal...Drawing on the historical and cultural reality of Colombia and in the best Latin American tradition, Ana Mercedes Hoyos develops her work in the labyrinth of pictorial crossbreeding-- a crossbreeding of images...read more
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9789588156088 | 1 edition (Villegas Editores, December 1, 2002), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: "The proliferation and diffusion of mestizo themes have become universal.
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9789589698297 | Villegas Editores, November 30, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents over two hundred thirty photographs of people and places in Costa Rica.
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9789588156002 | 1 edition (Villegas Editores, November 1, 2001), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Charming photographs from both urban and rural landscapes reveal the ethnic, religious, and ideological backgrounds of the Costa Rican people.
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9789589393970 | Villegas Editores, September 1, 2001, cover price $40.00
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9789589393871 | Villegas Editores, October 1, 2000, cover price $90.00
Product Description: Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona's buildings have become urban monuments and reference points for a whole generation of architects. Offering photos of a full range of his works, this account of Salmona's ideas explains his considerations of public use and cultural expressiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789589393581 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 1999, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona's buildings have become urban monuments and reference points for a whole generation of architects.
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9789589393642 | Villegas Editores, December 1, 1998, cover price $90.00
Photographs depict the Colombian countryside and the nation's historic cities and villages
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9789589393383 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 1998, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Photographs depict the Colombian countryside and the nation's historic cities and villages
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9789589393390 | Italian edition edition (Villegas Editores, June 30, 1997), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Presents large panoramic photographs of the cities, people, and natural landscapes of Colombia, accompanied by relevant quotations.
Product Description: Offering a stunning view of Colombia from the air, this beautiful photography book showcases some of the country's most spectacular sights, including the highest mountain on earth with a foot in the sea, the largest coastal lagoon in the Caribbean, the most extensive high tablelands on the planet, great cities and industrial centers, tiled roofs and cobblestone streets, and high plateaux where conquistadors found several million people at harmony with surrounding nature...read more
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9789589138885 | Reissue edition (Villegas Editores, March 1, 1997), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Offering a stunning view of Colombia from the air, this beautiful photography book showcases some of the country's most spectacular sights, including the highest mountain on earth with a foot in the sea, the largest coastal lagoon in the Caribbean, the most extensive high tablelands on the planet, great cities and industrial centers, tiled roofs and cobblestone streets, and high plateaux where conquistadors found several million people at harmony with surrounding nature.
Product Description:  The result of a three-year collaboration, this remarkable volume sets out to display traditional garments, jewelry, and ornaments of the indigenous cultures of Colombia in joyous and unprecedented abandon. Using his experience as a choreographer and costume and set designer, the photographer has created an extraordinary series of theatrical tableaux where myth and memory, fashion and fantasy intermingle in a riot of rich color...read more
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9789589393277 | Villegas Editores, March 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Â The result of a three-year collaboration, this remarkable volume sets out to display traditional garments, jewelry, and ornaments of the indigenous cultures of Colombia in joyous and unprecedented abandon.
Product Description: Spanning the 16th to 19th centuries, these homes reveal how builders adapted Spanish principles to the Colombian environment (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789589393055 | Villegas Editores, June 30, 1995, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Spanning the 16th to 19th centuries, these homes reveal how builders adapted Spanish principles to the Colombian environment
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