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This article follows our several previous studies in Russian art of the XXth century. It is dedicated to Francisco Infante-Arana (born 1943), Russian painter of Spanish origin, creator of a "new artistic language" (State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1996), author of an original theory of art developed since 1976 and named the "concept of artifact". If the spiritual continuity between the work of Francisco Infante and that of Kazimir Malevich has already been established for a long time as a commonplace in contemporary art studies (just remember the title of a series of works by Francisco Infante, "Suprematic Games. Hommage to Malevich", 1968, from the cycle "Spontaneous Games in Nature"), the relationship between the inventor of the concept of artifact and the founder of the abstractionism in painting, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), has not yet been a subject of targeted research. In our current study, we propose to address this uneasy issue by returning to the origins of the philosophical thought, and namely to the speculations on the phenomena of art in their relation to the phenomena of nature. This approach seems justified insofar as the abstractionism radically challenges the very foundations of art, reposing, since ancient times, on the primacy of mimesis, and rebuild this ruined aesthetic system, paradoxically, on the principles which, having been scrutinized more closely, seem not to lack some affinity with the worldview of the first "philosophers", so-called Presocratics. Thus, our purpose will be to raise the first elements of the Ancient Greek thought that appear at the base of the artistic creation and theoretical representations of Francisco Infante.

Tantra, Ritual, Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala: Embodying the Goddess Clan, by Matthew Martin. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 265 pp., €124.00/$149.00. ISBN 978-9-00-443899-6.

El 20 de diciembre de 2013 el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto firmó el decreto constitucional de la reforma energética que permitió la apertura del sector al capital privado. Aquel día, en Palacio Nacional, el mandatario expresó que con la promulgación de la reforma "comienza así una nueva historia para nuestro país. Hemos abierto las puertas de un mejor futuro para todos". A lo largo de este proceso de negociación y arreglos en la arena política, el gobierno emprendió una propaganda de la reforma que consistió en un bombardeo de mensajes persuasivos y de convencimiento sobre los efectos positivos y la necesidad de la implementación de la iniciativa. Dado la relevancia que ha adquirido la comunicación gubernamental en los últimos años y el impacto de lo que implica para México abrir el sector energético a empresas nacionales y extranjeras, el presente artículo se centra en realizar un primer acercamiento analítico sobre la construcción de la narrativa gubernamental para comunicar la reforma y sus efectos en la opinión pública. Palabras clave: Reforma Energética, comunicación estratégica, comunicación gubernamental y política, policy framing.