Marcelo Guimarães Lima, PhD, MFA, is a visual artist, art historian and writer. He studied Philosophy at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Studio Art and History of Art at the University of New Mexico, USA. He is the author of "Heterochronia and Vanishing Viewpoints" (Metasenta, Melbourne, 2012) and of essays, papers and articles on the History of Art, Philosophy, Art Criticism and Psychology of Art. He taught History of Art and Studio Art at the University of Illinois, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goddard College, and the American University in Dubai, UAE, and was visiting scholar at the Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Internacional de Andalucia in Spain.