Estudios sobre periodismo en México: fronteras, definiciones y prácticas de una profesión en plena transformación

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.

Asclepíades de Samos fue uno de los autores de epigramas más importantes de la literatura griega. Su obra es fundamental para comprender la transformación del epigrama, de género poético popular en forma literaria culta y refinada. En este libro se editan y estudian todos los epigramas y fragmentos conservados bajo el nombre de Asclepíades. El texto presentado proviene de una profunda revisión de todos los manuscritos, papiros y ediciones conocidos, así como de la larga tradición de crítica textual acerca de éstos. Su amplio estudio introductorio reconstruye la biografía del autor ...

A stunning presentation of works by contemporary Chinese artists, from the collection of the Swiss diplomat Uli Sigg, one of the worlds most influential collectors of Chinese contemporary art. This book reflects on the current state of art in China today through a selection of over 50 works by different artists produced between 1986 and 2006 a period of enormous economic and social change in the country with worldwide implications. This book shows Chinese avant-garde art against the backdrop of Chinas radical social and economic changes. Many of the works reveal the tension between current...

Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). A pivotal figure in the postminimalist generation who was also the son of a prominent Surrealist, Matta-Clark was a leader in the downtown artists' community in New York in the 1970s, and is widely seen as a pioneer of what has come to be known as social practice art. He is celebrated for his “anarchitectural” environments and performances, and the films, photographs, drawings, and sculptural fragments with which...