Museo y museología

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

El Renacimiento de la humanidades clásicas en Europa traspasó pronto sus fronteras hasta alcanzar, en el siglo XVI, las lejanas tierras de ultramar recién conquistadas; las nuevas ideas gramaticales y culturales llegaron raudo a América, fundamentalmente a través de la obra de Antonio de Nebrija. A esta tradición pertenecía fray Andrés de Olmos, sacerdote que, tras arribar a la Nueva España en 1528, junto a fray Juan de Zumárraga, además de enseñar latín a los indígenas en el Imperial Colegio de la Santa Cruz, en Tlatelolco, aplicó sus conocimientos de la gramática latina...

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...

Martin's head is literally "in the clouds." His daydreams take the reader to another world as he explores the jungle on a jaguar, flies across the sky on an albatross, and soon discovers that his daydreams are best dreamt when shared with another. Vivid and surreal illustrations lend to the imaginative tone of the story, all while reinforcing the true value of friendship.