NEW PUBLICATION. ACCADERE Nº. 8 (DECEMBER 2024)

We are pleased to inform our readership that issue no. 8 of Accadere is now available. It includes seven articlesaddressing different topics: 1. the book Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Ed Ruscha, which represented a paradigm shift, both in terms of the emergence of a new working format and in the definition of a new way of understanding the artist’s profession; 2. a survey of the life and work of the Cuban singer Merceditas Valdés, a mediator between Yoruba cultureand Afro-Cuban music, commemorating the centenary of her birth; 3. tourist promotion posters for Asturiascommissioned by two institutions framed within different dictatorial regimes at the beginning of the twentieth century: the National Tourism Board and the General Directorate of Tourism; 4. the journey of several paintings of special interest from the Monastery of San Zoilo de Carrión until their definitive disappearance; 5. the evolution and development of the iconography of Saint John the Baptist in cinema; 6. the pathways of disintegration of the collection of the sixth Count of Monterrey; and 7. the compilation of the documented works attributed to date to the sculptor Jerónimo Gómez, intended to serve as a concise catalogue of the artist and his workshop.

On this occasion, we would like to welcome the new members of the Technical Team of Accadere: Sheila María Sánchez Martel, Elena Herrera González, and Iria Parada Regueira, who will join us in production work from the present issue onward.