Horror vacui: una colección de pintura barroca

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from various theoretical perspectives and providing an example of what this sector has to contribute to the development of linguistics and literary studies in...

Katharine Kuh ingreso al Instituto de Arte de Chicago en 1943 y dedico dos decadas a escribir critica de arte contemporaneo. Galerista, conservadora, curadora y coleccionista, creia que para comprender cabalmente una obra y transmitirla al publico habia que tener una total implicacion. Asi, guardo familiaridad con pintores como Leger, Rothko, Kline y Hopper, arquitectos como Mies van der Rohe y escultores como Constantin Brancusi. A ese mundo artistico e intelectual estan dedicadas estas memorias, escritas por la autora a los ochenta y siete anos y completadas a su muerte por Avis Berman, su...

Fundamentos de morfología de la lengua castellana: teoría y práctica tiene el propósito de mostrar la importancia de conocer nuestra lengua desde las estructuras que la constituyen y sustentan al nivel de la palabra, ya que esta tiene una configuración estructural, profunda y contextual que es necesario conocer y reconocer para ser utilizada adecuadamente en ámbitos diversos. La obra se enmarca dentro del corpus bibliográfico de la gramática del español con una orientación didáctica. Se abordan los procesos de formación de palabras, así como los rasgos distintivos de las...