The Expressive Other: Understanding and Enjoying Puerto Rican Santos = La Expresividad en el Otro
Subtitle: Como Entender y Gozar los Santos de Puerto Rico (bilingual edition)
Publisher: Diomedes Press
Published: March 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780971227606
Subjects: Subjects & Themes - General; Art; Bilingual books; Catholic Church; Folk Art; History - General; Puerto Rico; Religious; Santos (Art); Sculpture; Spanish: Adult Nonfiction; Wood carving; Art / Sculpture; Art & Art Instruction
First sentence: Although the understanding of a work of art begins with a consideration of its visual signs -the lines, the colors, the textures, the figurations and the symbols- its interpretation should not depend only on the them.