Objets d'art

What is the translation profession like? How can you get into the job market? What range of activities must translators cover? How many languages do they need to be fluent in? The significant contributions included in this book bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer new suggestions for analysing translation activity

Paul Klee nació en 1879 en Münchenbuchsee, Suiza, y creció en una familia de músicos. En vez de seguir la tradición musical de la familia, decidió estudiar arte en la academia de Munich. Sin embargo, el amor que durante su niñez sintió por la música siempre fue parte importante en su vida y su obra. En 1911 Klee conoció a Alexei Javlensky, Vasily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc y otras figuras de vanguardia y participó en importantes muestras del arte vanguardista, incluyendo la segunda exhibición de Blaue Reiter en la galería Hans Goltz de Munich, en 1912. Es difícil...

Radi Cordero (Havana, 1971) represents through his work the "other Cuban art". Far from the standards of Revolution art, and without falling into topics of other artists from in and out of the island, Cordero 'samples' pretexts whimsically obtained from various referential origins (press, magazines, books, TV, photography and video) and shows us his work as a result of recycling, of a revival, creating a new reality that refers more to Art than to any other apparent content. The texts of Bruce Ferguson, Barry Schwabsky and Kevin Power and the interview with Omar-Pascual Castillo go deep into...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...