Artwork by Emilio Pettoruti. Edited by Edward Sullivan.

The present editorial project brings together for the first time the "Visiones de Xul Solar", a set of texts comprising the visions experimented by expresionist artist Alejandro Xul Solar (b. Argentina 1887-1963) after using the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, or Book of Changes. "Los Signos" was a collection of 50 texts that Xul Solar organized between 1937 and 1938 with the intention of a later publication. The material corresponds to the visions he started having in 1924 and of which he kept a well documented registry, first in four notebooks (Cuadernos de San Signos) and later in a dactylographic text. This carefully edited book comprises the reproduction and transcription of the Neo-Creole translation into Spanish of Xul Solar's San Signos written in an artificial language of his own invention in Spanish of the notebooks left by Xul Solar and guarded for more than 70 years by the Fundacin Pan Klub. Includes Xul Solar's paintings that related to the transcriptions of his visions, a facet of the artist almost unknown until now.

The book reviews the presence in Argentina during the 19th and 20th centuries of artwork by Spanish artists through interrelated sections that review the different aspects and problems of the circulation, distribution, art markets, art collection and criticism and cultural patrimony of artists exiled during the Second Spanish Republic. Special sections dedicated to the participation of Spanish artists in Argentinean international art fairs and to 2 emblematic figures of Spanish art during the studied period: Guillermo de Torre and Ramón Gómez de la Serna.

Exhibition and historic account of the private association "Asociación Amigos del Arte (AAA)", the most important private art institution of the first half of the 20th century in Argentina and for the last decades largely ignored by art historians. Described as a "space destined for art exhibitions administered by a group from the 'Landowner's oligarchy', a high-class institution derived from the social status of the majority of its members", the AAA was founded with the main purpose of contributing with the work and material well-being of the local artists and to facilitate the access to the Argentinean society of the diverse artistic world-wide production spanning from Pre-Columbian to the diverse contemporary expressions: the traditional and the avant-garde, the nationalism and cosmopolitan movements. The exhibition revisits the social and artistic impact and cultural contributions of the AAA and presents close to 100 works by famous artists including Fernando Fader, Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, Ernesto de la Crcova, Pedro Figari, Emilio Pettoruti, Ral Soldi, Antonio Berni, Juan Del Prete, Xul Solar, Raquel Forner and Alfredo Guttero, amongst others; complemented with period photographs, printed material, films, recordings, posters, and numerous newspaper and magazine clips.