Identidad y Language Crossing

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...

La vida del inspector Kurt Wallander ha cambiado ligeramente: no sólo ha hecho realidad su sueño de tener una casa en el campo, sino que, además, su hija linda lo ha convertido en abuelo. Sin embargo, su tranquilidad se ve perturbada poco después, un día de invierno de 2008, cuando el suegro de linda, un oficial de alto rango de la marina sueca llamado Håkan Von Enke, desaparece en un bosque cerca de Estocolmo. Aunque la investigación la dirige la policía de Estocolmo, Wallander no puede evitar implicarse, sobre todo cuando una segunda persona desaparece en misteriosas circunstancias. ...

"El Capital de la era digital" The Times "Como otra obra maestra reciente del análisis económico, El capital en el siglo XXI, de Thomas Piketty, este libro cuestiona ideas asumidas, plantea interrogantes incómodos sobre el presente y el futuro, y acota el terreno para un debate muy necesario y pendiente desde hace ya un tiempo." Nicholas Carr, autor de Superficiales, Los Angeles Review of Books En esta obra magistral por la originalidad de las ideas y las investigaciones en ella expuestas, Shoshana Zuboff nos revela el alarmante fenómeno que ella misma ha denominado "capitalismo de la...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompañando una exhibición en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza,...