Federico García Lorca

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...

CUADERNO DE UN VIAJE. Exploraciones del espacio 1945-2008, es una reflexión sobre la nueva mirada al espacio y a la vida que surgió como secuela de la bomba atómica, intentando hacer visible el proceso mental común a científicos y artistas. El mapa que nos brinda la autora para este paseo por el arte y la ciencia de los últimos sesenta años usa el método tradicional en cartografía: la triangulación, perfeccionada hace dos siglos por Gauss, cuya estrategia –colocarse directamente sobre la superficie de las cosas– caracteriza, segun Corrales, el hacer de los artistas y...

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning children’s games, he traced his first pictures in the sand. This early self-expression held out promise of a rare gift. Málaga must be mentioned, for it was there, on 25 October 1881, that Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born and it was there that he spent the first ten years of his life. Picasso’s...

Escribe Graciela Reyes en su magnífico prólogo: «¿Qué hace la gente cuando usa el lenguaje?». Esta es la pregunta con la que comienza este libro. Pregunta «impertinente», es decir, el tipo de pregunta que se sale de las reglas del juego de una discip