The Politics of Abstract Art. Forma 1 and the Italian Communist Party

Este artículo examina el papel del grupo de artistas abstractos Forma 1 en relación con la política cultural del Partido Comunista Italiano durante la posguerra, como ejemplo de los intentos de superar la dicotomía establecida en Italia entre arte abstracto y realismo socialista y producir una alternativa a la confrontación entre ambos discursos estéticos. Mientras los artistas realistas socialistas subrayaban la necesidad de expresar contenidos políticos explícitos con un estilo que asegurase su máxima legibilidad para una audiencia de masas, los artistas de Forma 1 argumentaban que la abstracción significaba una crítica de la representación pictórica que podía contribuir a la crítica de la ideología burguesa, armonizando de este modo el marxismo con los desarrollos artísticos más avanzados. El PCI, por su parte, basaba su política artística en amplias alianzas de artistas e intelectuales antifascistas, que cada vez eran más difíciles de mantener en el clima de creciente confrontación política y cultural que siguió a la II Guerra Mundial

This Helped Me Think of the Really Important Things in Life. Interview with Francesc Reverter

Interview with Francesc Reverter I Sabaté, Educator Elementary Public School and Mathematician. Alcanar, Catalonia, Spain.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1003/thumbnail.jp

To Lead in a Different Kind of Context. Interview with Carmen Montecinos Sanhueza

Interview with Carmen Montecinos Sanhueza, Director of Líderes Educativos (Leadership Center for School Improvement, Chile) and Professor of Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1006/thumbnail.jp

Affirmative Action, People and Education in the Monterey County

In this article Gutierrez explores the recent controversy on Affirmative Action Programs in the context of the school performance in the Monterey County . The article calls for attention to educational deficits as the best alternative to the controversial use of Affirmative Action

Taxi Teaching, in a Different Way. Interview with Cristina Banfi

Interview with Cristina Banfi. Specialist in English Language Education. Professor of Language, University of Buenos Aires. Former Director of the Department of Languages and Education, Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires. Argentina.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1014/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Andrew Knox Cass

Interview with Andrew Knox Cass, Author and STEM Teacher at the Energy and Environment Department. Polytechnic Institute, Aalborg. Denmark.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1009/thumbnail.jp

Unhealable. Interview with Sean Field

Interview with Sean Field. Associate Professor in the Historical Studies Department. Specialist in Oral History. University of Cape Town, Pretoria, South Africa.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1016/thumbnail.jp

Decision Making in Times of Uncertainty: Worse than an Earthquake. Interview with Fran Horvath

Interview with Fran Horvath. Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs., California State University, Monterey Bay. Specialist in Marine Biology. Monterey, CA, USA.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1017/thumbnail.jp

No Pasarse: Let’s Not Overdo It. Interview with Niels Willemsen

Interview with Niels Willemsen. Lawyer and Barrister. Specialist in Privacy. Professor and Researcher at the Business Administration Department at Avans University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1015/thumbnail.jp

A Kodak Moment: Thousands of Courses and Twelve Days. Interview with Helen Klaebe

Interview with Helen Klaebe, Provost Chancellor of Graduate Research and Development at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/digital-proximities_archive/1012/thumbnail.jp