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Book La Persona Social

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  • Author : Francisco Giner de los Ríos
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book La Persona Social written by Francisco Giner de los Ríos and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Garden History

Download or read book Garden History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art   paintings   Kunst   Gem  lde   Art   peintures   Arte   pinturas

Download or read book Art paintings Kunst Gem lde Art peintures Arte pinturas written by Simone Homberg and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art & paintings / Kunst & Gemälde / Art & peintures / Arte & pinturas Simone Homberg Englisch / Deutsch / Französisch / Spanisch / Russisch / Japanisch / Hindi / Chinesisch / Arabisch 1. Landscapes and nature / Landschaften und Natur / Paysages et nature / Paisajes y naturaleza 2. Sailing ships, boats / Segelschiffe, Boote / Voiliers, bateaux / Veleros, barcos 3. Flowers and Plants / Blumen und Pflanzen / fleurs et plantes / flores y plantas 4. Still life / Stillleben / Nature morte / Naturaleza muerta 5. Buildings & cities / Gebäude & Städte / Bâtiments & villes / Edificios y ciudades 6. Humans and animals / Menschen und Tiere / Humains et animaux / Humanos y animales 7. Abstract motifs / Abstrakte Motive / Motifs abstraits / Motivos abstractos

Book Every Arc Bends Its Radian

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  • Author : Sergio De La Pava
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-11-12
  • ISBN : 1668056704
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Every Arc Bends Its Radian written by Sergio De La Pava and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From PEN Award­­–winning author Sergio de la Pava comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman’s strange disappearance—which may be connected to one of the world’s most ruthless criminal organizations. Riv—poet, philosopher, private eye—arrives in Cali, Colombia, hoping to find reprieve. Running away from an unspeakable event surrounding his ex Jane, Riv accidentally connects with his cousin Mauro and family friend Carlotta, who asks him to find her daughter Angelica Alfa-Ochoa. No sooner is Riv on the trail when it becomes clear that not only are the cops not looking for Angelica, but they are actively preventing him from finding her. This could be a good thing because the police are clearly in the pocket of one Exeter Mondragon, a name best never uttered in public if one wants to stay alive. But Riv is not one to leave things incomplete. When his investigation leads him straight into the heart of Mondragon’s criminal empire, he is forced not only to face unimaginable horrors, but also to plunge into the deepest and most perplexing conundrums of the human condition. Lightning fast on the page and steeped in the cultural history of Colombia, Every Arc Bends Its Radian is a novel only Sergio de la Pava could write. As incredibly funny as it is ridiculously smart, it poses large philosophical questions while keeping you laughing. A novel idea about the biggest idea of them all—what in God’s name are we even put on earth for, this book is a singular exploration of the human mind.

Book Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia

Download or read book Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia written by Carlos Garrido Castellano and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The book’s main hypothesis is that contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the European Union. We argue that, at least from the 1990s, curating emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding, Iberian and curatorial studies.

Book Manolo Vald  s

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  • Author : Manolo Valdés
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Manolo Vald s written by Manolo Valdés and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 8 - November 2, 2002

Book Ibero americana

Download or read book Ibero americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research news and principal acquisitions of documentation on Latin America in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Book Marvels of Medicine

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  • Author : Yarí Pérez Marín
  • Publisher : Liverpool Latin American Studi
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1789622506
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Marvels of Medicine written by Yarí Pérez Marín and published by Liverpool Latin American Studi. This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation. Unlike the accounts of first explorers, which sought to amaze audiences back in Europe with descriptions of strange and astonishing lands, these texts instead engaged the marvellous in an effort to supersede it, stressing the value of sensorial experience and of verifying information thorough repetition and demonstration. Vernacular medical writing became an unlikely early platform for a new form of regionally-anchored discourse that demanded participation in a global intellectual conversation, yet found itself increasingly relegated to the margins. In responding to that challenge, anatomical treatises, natural histories and surgical manuals exceeded the bounds set by earlier templates becoming rich, hybrid narratives that were as concerned with science as with portraying the lives and sensibilities of women and men in early colonial Mexico.

Book Los ninfoleptos  Bipolaridad  Arte y Locura

Download or read book Los ninfoleptos Bipolaridad Arte y Locura written by Óscar Benassini Félix and published by Editorial Ink. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incluye audio del autor. ¿Quiénes son los ninfoleptos? Antiguamente se les identificaba como personajes delirantes frente a las ninfas cuyas mentes veían emergiendo de una fuente. Sin embargo, ver visiones no era su único infortunio. La depresión y otras manías se consideraban su peor castigo. Hoy, mucho tiempo después se sabe que los ninfoleptos padecen bipolaridad, ese trastorno de la conducta que padecen importantes artistas de diversas disciplinas y que lo hizo ser considerado un don, más que un trastorno. Arte y enfermedad, vistos desde el ojo científico, es el tema que aborda Óscar Benassini en este ensayo en el que lo mismo nos sentiremos conmovidos frente al drama infantil de la poetisa Sylvia Plath que frente a las locuras adolescentes del rockero Kurt Cobain. La bipolaridad es un trastorno tan especial de la conducta y con tantas aristas, que algunos han planteado incluso la posibilidad de que antes que una enfermedad sea considerada un don, debido a la gran cantidad de artistas geniales que la han sufrido.

Book Lenguaje  arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy

Download or read book Lenguaje arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy written by Alejandro Cortazar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts new paradigms in Hispanic linguistic, literary and cultural studies. Part I: Literary and Cultural Studies includes eight essays focusing on a new trend of cultural representation attempting to find new meaning(s). They explore a series of reflections on some of those moments – from the period that begins with the cry for independence in 1810 and that spans beyond 2010 – textually translated as new approaches of analysis on the “recollections of things to come.” The contexts examined evince critical occurrences related to periods of change toward democracy and social justice that eventually lead to “revolutionary” or “emancipating” ends, by way of artistic, textual manifestations. Part II: Linguistic and Cultural Studies contains nine articles representative of the most current, ground breaking research on Hispanic linguistics. It focuses on important linguistic and cultural issues pertaining, geographically, to various corners of the Hispanic world, spanning from central Florida and New York City, to Bolivia, and on to the Prince Islands in Turkey. The issues explored include the sociolinguistic and cultural identity of Puerto Ricans in the United States, the pragmatics of humor in Mexican film, the effects of language evolution on modern Spanish, and the acquisition of Spanish by English speakers.

Book Subjunctive Aesthetics

Download or read book Subjunctive Aesthetics written by Carolyn Fornoff and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twenty-first century, Mexico has escalated extractive concessions at the same time that it has positioned itself as an international leader in the fight against climate change. Cultural production emergent from this contradiction frames this impasse as a crisis of imagination. Subjunctive Aesthetics studies how contemporary writers, filmmakers, and visual artists grapple with the threat that climate change and extractivist policies pose to Mexico's present and future. It explores how artists rise to the challenge of envisioning alternative forms of territoriality (ways of being in relation to the environment) through strategies ranging from rewriting to counterfactual speculation. Whereas ecocritical studies have often focused on art's evidentiary role—its ability to visualize and prove the urgency of environmental damage—author Carolyn Fornoff argues that what unites the artists under consideration is their use of more hypothetical, uncertain representational modes, or "subjunctive aesthetics." In English, the subjunctive is a grammatical mode that articulates the imagined, desired, and possible. In the Spanish language, it is even more widely used to express doubts, denials, value judgments, and emotions. Each chapter of Subjunctive Aesthetics takes up one of these modalities to examine how Mexican artists, writers, and filmmakers activate approaches to the planet not just as it is, but as it could be or should be.

Book Ethics of Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katarzyna Beilin
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-30
  • ISBN : 0826503802
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book Ethics of Life written by Katarzyna Beilin and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors ask the following questions: • What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change? • How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons? • What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology? • What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain? Hispanic Issues Series Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief Hispanic Issues Online hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html

Book Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

Download or read book Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema written by Carolyn Fornoff and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the "human" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species.

Book El paisaje de la arquitectura   The Landscape of Arquitecture

Download or read book El paisaje de la arquitectura The Landscape of Arquitecture written by Mayka García-Hípola and published by Fundación Univ. San Pablo. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Para El paisaje de la arquitectura la autora ha superado notablemente la contradicción entre una exposición necesariamente lógico-lineal, que facilite la inteligibilidad del contenido, y la extensa complejidad de éste. Complejidad ineludible para una solvente descripción y análisis del conocimiento contemporáneo. Comprometerse con nuestro tiempo histórico conlleva asumir que el paradigma positivista-lógico ha sido envuelto, que no desplazado, por el paradigma de la complejidad. El principio de la causalidad, y la independencia de “causa-efecto” del observador, es cuestionado por el paradigma complejo, para el que en la gestión del conocimiento el propio observador está imputado como un dato o suceso en el propio proceso. La profesora García-Hípola nos conduce por su ensayo a escenarios teórico-críticos a través de su propia experiencia, incluso de su protagonismo en los procesos, reflexiones y cuestiones que analiza. Es desde esa complejidad desde la que reivindica implícitamente en su texto la transversalidad entre autor, espectador, docente y creador, literalmente en las citas referidas a experiencias sobre la obra de El Bosco, o en las que somete al arquitecto a nuevos roles que devienen del comportamiento de la materia como un auténtico ecólogo o los del propio antropólogo que explora la acción del ser humano y sus detritus en el paisaje, como en su proyecto para Villajoyosa, verdadero tratado de “arquitectura de campo”. In The Landscape of Architecture the author has remarkably surpassed the contradiction between a necessarily logical-linear explanation, to facilitate the intelligibility of the content, and its vast complexity. This is an inescapable complexity for a trustworthy description and analysis of contemporary knowledge. Commitment to our historical time involves assuming that the logical positivist paradigm has been wrapped, not displaced, by the paradigm of complexity. The principle of causality, and the independence between “cause and effect” of the observer, is questioned by the complex paradigm, for which, in the management of knowledge, the observer is ascribed as data or event of the process itself. In her essay professor García-Hípola leads us to theoretical-critical scenarios through her own experience, including her protagonism in the processes, reflections, and issues that she analyzes. From this complexity, the transversality between author, spectator, teacher and creator is claimed, literally in the quotes of the experiences about Hieronymus Bosch’s work, or in those where the architect is subjected to new roles that come from matter’s behavior, as a true ecologist, or those of the anthropologist who explores human action and its detritus in the landscape, as in her project for Villajoyosa, veritable treatise of “field architecture”.

Book In Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Tufnell
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2019-11-29
  • ISBN : 1789040515
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book In Land written by Ben Tufnell and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to melt an iceberg with a blowtorch, an indoor lake of tequila, an ascent of Mt Everest, driftwood burnt with sunlight focused through a magnifying glass and a doorbell that emits the sound of a dying star; these are some of the extraordinary artistic strategies covered in this collection. Gathering together texts published since 2002, as well as specially written new essays, In Land traces recent engagements with landscape, nature, environment and the cosmos.

Book Canadiana

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1252 pages

Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decisi  n Crucial

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  • Author : CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ
  • Publisher : Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
  • Release : 2014-09-18
  • ISBN : 6077627364
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Decisi n Crucial written by CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ and published by Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uziel no sabe qué carrera profesional estudiar. Se toma un tiempo para pensar y busca un empleo. Se involucra en prácticas de corrupción y termina en la cárcel; viviendo la peor pesadilla de su vida, reflexiona en los errores que cometió y va descubriendo terribles secretos de su pasado. Rodeado de ratas, a punto de morir, sabe que debe tomar una decisión urgente. Ésta es una novela hipnótica, de enigmas y acelerado suspenso. Los protagonistas son jóvenes que planean su futuro y se encuentran con dilemas de importancia vital. Contiene también un análisis de profesiones, indispensable para elegir una carrera o cambiar de empleo, así como diez pruebas fundamentales que nos ayudarán a descubrir nuestras habilidades y talentos. Leer este libro es una decisión crucial que puede cambiar la vida de cualquier JOVEN o adulto.