Cow's Head Fred, by Vicente Luis Mora

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That the art world is in an unprecedented drift is an impression that I have contrasted on many occasions with many other laymen like myself. But the main question is that ... Are the impressions of experts on any artistic manifestation worth more? Does it happen then that art is only for those who know how to understand it?

One of the definitions of the RAE comes to say that art is any manifestation of human activity whose purpose is to interpret reality or the imaginary, translating it with various resources of language, music or more plastic elements.

I can't see it clearly. I do not know if art is something universal or if it is a way of representing the world only for "smartass" and connoisseurs.

Of all this that I write (I have already dispatched myself at ease) is what the book Cow head fred. The grotesque name already announces that uplifting intention of the author. Putting art, or what is considered art, into question seems like a necessary task.

The plot of this novel is made up of fragments in which an academic is trying to piece together the life of the great Fred Cabeza de Vaca. Characters who lived very closely around the artist speak of the myth, of his legend, of his most unknown interiorities, of his less glorious aspects.

The composition of the artist ends up becoming the judgment on art itself, on avant-garde and trends, on the real value of art, on its price and on what is probably not always art.

It may be that behind the whole world of art there is a lot of elitism, proselytism, the need to control and take over a market in its just economic measure. Artists who reach the top touched by the wand of critics, artists rescued from hell who fascinate the snobbish staff who behold them. Art and not art exhibited in large galleries. Of all these ins and outs and the peculiarities of the artistic world we find much and good in this book.

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