For this artist's sketchbook, Spanish painter, author and set designer Eduardo Arroyo (born 1937) created 20 drawings and then mailed them to 20 international artists, such as Bruno Bruni, William Klein and Peter Blake, to make pairs for them. This volume reproduces all 40 works. Text in Spanish only.

This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating. In some time of our physiological life something inside each one gets lost and the mind fills with doubts. In spite of the inertia of the long crossed distance, to stop and to look behind with exploratory smell can help us to enter with courage in the unknown days. This book shapes a thick network of crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years of the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the random and the instability, the empathy, the instants and the choice, the hybridization and the blurry systems, the cloning, the invisible orders and the essential complexity or the combination of matter and energy turn out to be here interlaced. They shape a kaleidoscopic optics that though has guided always by an invincible illusion has never been exempt from the risk of diving in the unknown thing. The trip across these invisible paths demonstrates a critical vision of the world and the voluntary obligation to try to transform it from the creative independence, the determination and the valor that they are the transparent message of this book.

On this occasion, La Fábrica’s exquisite, big-format series of Artist Books presents a selection of works by the famous Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo, a key author in Narrative Figuration, Neo-figurative art and pop art. In the early 1960s, his work was already decidedly subversive and offensive, often ridiculing Spanish stereotypes and clichés. His first great impact was his participation in the Third Paris Biennale with The Four Dictators, a work that triggered complaints by the Spanish government, as well as a show in Madrid that same year, which was censored and closed down, forcing Arroyo to flee to Paris, persecuted by the police. Eduardo Arroyo (Madrid, 1937) was born during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship and was forced to take up exile in Paris and Italy before finally returning to Spain with the restoration of democracy. Today, he remains one of the most relevant painters in contemporary Spain, and his works are part of prestigious modern art museums, both in his native Spain and abroad, such as the Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Pompidou in Paris.

Nuestros anos diez trata sobre el indigenismo, los levantamientos indigenas y el incaismo modernista en el Peru de la decada de 1910. Este libro estudia uno de los mas intensos periodos de la historia del Peru. Pero deliberadamente focaliza en el aspecto indigena de la cuestion. Por eso, se centra en la accion de la Asociacion Pro-Indigena, el levantamiento de Rumi Maqui y el impulso del incaismo modernista, y no se detiene en otros puntos que ya han sido prolijamente estudiados. Ademas, aunque destaca el rol cumplido por Pedro S. Zulen, Teodomiro Gutierrez Cuevas y Abraham Valdelomar, reivindica tambien a una serie de personajes que se les condeno a ser los eternos convidados de piedra de la historia del Peru.