Exploring evaluative, emotive and persuasive strategies in discourse

Jardin de villes, jardin d’ombre, jardin méditerranéen, jardin au naturel, micro-jardin... Comment réaliser le jardin de ses rêves, en exploitant au mieux l'espace, l'ensoleillement, le type de terrain, le climat ? Flaminia Palminteri, forte de son expérience de paysagiste, répond à toutes les questions que l’on se pose lorsque l’on veut concevoir soi-même un plan paysager pour son jardin et propose : des conseils pour visualiser son projet et le mettre sur plan ; des solutions pour exploiter au mieux les particularités du terrain ; des astuces pour sélectionner les végétaux ...

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

George Lucas se metió en esto del cine por una carambola de la vida. Pero ya como alumno de la Universidad de California del Sur empezó a asombrar al mundo con alguna de sus creaciones en la pantalla. Fue su idea de hacer una "space ópera fantástica a lo Flash Gordon" lo que definitivamente le encumbró al Olimpo cinematográfico. Con la saga "La guerra de las galaxias" consiguió llevar a la práctica su sueño de crear una historia universal –la de la lucha del Bien y el Mal– con robots, androides y héroes que tienen los ideales que a todos nos gustaría tener. Y con ello forjar...