El bosque de colores

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,...

Nuri, a refugee living in Spain, reflects on daily life in the refugee camp as well as the pain of war, his fears and hopes, and his desire to begin a better life for the future.

RESUMEN: El presente ensayo se inscribe en la cultura visual que en este momento histórico convive con la cultura escrita en el proceso informacióncomunicación-conocimiento. Si bien, hasta el siglo XX, la cultura escrita dominaba el ámbito de la construcción del conocimiento, con la hiper-sofistificación de las tecnologías de la información, poco a poco las habilidades informacionales han girado hacia la cultura visual, reconociendo a la representación de la información en el pensamiento del individuo como imagen, y, por lo tanto, con otras trascendencias diferentes a la lectura...

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....