Las Edades Atlantes Perdidas

Annotation Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings to 1600), published in 1994 in the same series, to bring already available bibliographical information together with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. Now, the second volume, covering the...

Revolutionary and troublemaker Diego Rivera (1886-1957) pioneered public art - particularly with his magnificent murals - that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. His tumultuous career is surveyed in this richly illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Basic Art series celebrating major artists. This enticing collection shows both the wide range of his art and its influence on other painters and artistic movements.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Las relaciones entre la escritura de Roland Barthes y el universo de la imagen fueron siempre tan constantes como complejas, por lo que dieron lugar simultaneamente a libros sobre temas generales, concebidos desde una perspectiva sistematica, y a textos mas breves y concretos, en torno a asuntos mucho mas especificos. En lo que se refiere a estos ultimos, Barthes sustituyo su habitual minuciosidad metodologica por un enfoque hasta tal punto intransferible y personal que acabaron convirtiendose en piezas literarias de primer orden, en pequenas obras maestras del ensayo. Pero lo mas importante...