Importancia del contexto histórico en el desarrollo del arte dominicano

Major reference work on Dominican visual art and its evolution throughout the last 3 centuries. The book is divided in 4 sections: an introductory essay with a synthesis of the Dominican artists development in recent history; an historic time frame highlighting the artistic movements and styles and a third section with a chronology of Dominican art following the historic, political, economic and cultural events of the studied period. Finally a fourth section includes more than 300 brief biographies of the mentioned artists with selected illustrations of their work. The book is the first number of a series of published studies part of the educational policy of the present government.