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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of English, and students ...

El color, fuente de intensas experiencias sensoriales, es tambien vehiculo de la transmision cultural. En "Color y cultura," John Gage muestra como la percepcion del color, en apariencia inmediata y atemporal, tiene una dimension historica. El estudio, centrado en la historia del arte, nos remite a un horizonte mas amplio, vinculando la obra de los artistas a la investigacion cientifica, la filosofia o la mentalidad religiosa. El autor reconstruye, con impresionante erudicion, los avatares de la teoria y la practica del color desde la Antiguedad. Sucesivamente desfilan los terminos y teorias...

“En el comienzo, el lienzo es blanco, vacío; luego el inicio cauteloso, y, después, el vertido de la pintura del tarro sobre el blanco de la superficie...” Hans Namuth Nacido en 1912 en un pequeño pueblo de Wyoming, Estados Unidos, Jackson Pollock encarnó el sueño americano en el momento en que el país se enfrentaba a las realidades de la era moderna, que apenas empezaba a reemplazar al concluido siglo XIX. Como en una novela, Pollock abandonó su hogar para buscar fama y fortuna en Nueva York. Gracias al Proyecto Federal de Artes fue aclamado rápidamente y al terminar la Segunda...