Disappeared

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...

Uno de los motivos por los que vamos al cine es la felicidad que nos provocan las películas. Hay films que nos presentan, al mismo tiempo, una teoría sobre la felicidad: los que explican de manera sutil cómo aparece en nosotros esa plenitud instantánea por la cual seguimos viviendo. Son los que nos acompañan siempre, los que recordamos en los malos momentos, los que guardamos en la memoria y nos dibujan una sonrisa. De Federico Fellini a Orson Welles, de Takeshi Kitano a Walter Hill, de Fred Astaire a The Beatles, de François Truffaut a John Wayne, los artistas detrás de estas...

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference on Translation Studies in Barcelona in 1998. The papers illustrate four areas that are of particular interest in translation research today in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The purpose of the first section, 'Investigating Translation Paradigms', is to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The second section, 'Investigating the Translation Process', focuses on the skills, knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence....

This volume contains material from three medieval Spanish treatises on linguistics: El arte de trobar by Enrique de Villena (1384-1434); the second book of Gramática castellana by Antonio de Lebrija (1444-1522); and the Arte de la poesía castellana by Juan del Encina (1469-1529).