Actas del II Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

ste es un libro de historia. un libro que re ne las aut nticas firmas de los grandes artistas que retrata, pero tambi n devela, a trav s de an cdotas, testimonios, presuntas l neas autobiogr ficas, apuntes y notas tan falsas como ciertas, qui nes fueron esos artistas que marcaron el siglo XX con mayor precisi n que ciertos tedios documentados de la historia. Tambi n es un di logo de S bat con los artistas, con la pintura, con sus antecesores y sus interlocutores.

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

This volume examines the symbolic systems that governed America’s integration into the European weltanschauung,including Amerindian myths and religious beliefs, and concepts of Christian belief, as introduced and taught by the Europeans. Thiscollection of essayspresents a detailed examination of political, legal, theological, and historiographic problems associated with this process.