The Centro de Arte Tomas y Valiente (Ceart) has hosted this year the first anthological show devoted to the Madrid-based artist SUS033. An international figure in what is known as "urban art", for some time his work has overstepped the bounds of this label and expanded into almost all the artistic disciplines, including painting, performance, video and the performing arts. SUS033 views the creative process as an aesthetic commitment to the environment, to people and their problems (human art), not as a factory of artistic objects for the market. The book and exhibition - curated by Susan Blas - survey three decades of his history, from his roots as a graffiti artist to his latest stagings. English / Spanish Illustrated

Throughout the Middle Ages, John the Evangelist, identified as the author of both the Book of Revelation and the most profound and theologically informed of the four Gospels, provided monks and nuns with a figure of inspiration and an exemplar of vision and virginity. Rather than the historical apostle, this book's protagonist is a persona of the Evangelist established in theology, the liturgy, and devotional practice: the model mystic, who, by virtue of his penetrating insight, was seen as having become a mirror image of Christ. In St. John the Divine, Jeffrey Hamburger identifies a remarkable set of images from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries that identify the inspired Evangelist so closely with the deity that he appears as his living image and embodiment. Hamburger explores the ways these representations of St. John in the guise of Christ elucidate the significance of images as such in medieval theology and mysticism. Above all, he shows how these artworks, presented together for the first time, epitomize the relationship between the visible and the invisible: between ideas, however abstract, and the concrete images that medieval Christians confronted face-to-face. -- Publisher's description.

In this volume is a masterpiece of medieval literature and spirituality from the 14th-century (1300-1366) German Dominican mystic.