Rckblicke und Neue Perspektiven / Miradas Retrospectivas y Nuevas Orientaciones

Este volumen recoge los frutos del II Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística, celebrado en León entre los días dos y cinco de marzo de 1999. En total cinco plenarias y ochenta y una comunicaciones repartidas a lo largo de 1.024 páginas.

¿Quieres aprender a hablar japonés de forma rápida y divertida? No podrás leer a Murakami en versión original, pero sí que podrás mantener conversaciones sobre temas cotidianos, como pedir comida en un restaurante, reservar una habitación de hotel o salir airoso en una reunión de negocios. Este manual te ofrece una estudiada selección de la gramática, el vocabulario, las conjugaciones verbales y las bases de la pronunciación que te serán más útiles para empezar a hablar este idioma.

Against All Odds reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to see an exhibition of graffiti art which Haring had co-curated. This volume contains the entirety of their collection, much of which is reproduced for the first...

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,...