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En este libro se pretende dar un paso más en la historia del coleccionismo, pasando de una "reconstrucción del poseer" a una "arqueología del mirar", con el convencimiento de que a través del estudio de los hábitos visuales y de las convenciones culturales -distintos en cada uno de los niveles de público a que iban destinadas estas obras- que entraban en juego a la hora de apreciar la pintura del Siglo de Oro, se enriquecen las perspectivas actuales para lograr un conocimiento -y un disfrute- más profundo de ella. INDICE. Introducción. El funcionalismo gramatical del español. Para...

Graphic designer López Castro presents a collection of photographs of street paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a methodological documentation project of a distinctive Mexican folkart he started in 2002 and that culminated in the present book that includes the prologue of anthropologist Roger Bartra. Of the book the author states -"The Guadalupana is the virgin of the poor. That is why in this book I try to make it evident how each Mexican paints her as best as they can, as they need her or with the only purpose of having her present during their daily street walking."

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...

Tras las lentes de Isabel Coixet: Cine, Compromiso y Feminismo es el estudio más completo hasta la fecha sobre la obra de Isabel Coixet, una de las más prolíficas, versátiles y cosmopolitas cineastas del panorama cinematográfico actual. El volumen examina la producción de la directora catalana, desde cuatro ángulos diferentes. La primera parte recorre las temáticas generales de su producción: los lugares, las miradas, las texturas, los silencios y los sonidos, y su diálogo con la teoría fílmica feminista. La segunda disecciona al detalle sus películas de ficción, desde Demasiado ...

In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...