El maná espiritual y el espacio poético

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Fotógrafa y directora de cine, Sarah Moon (Francia, 1941) pronto alcanzó prestigio y reconocimiento como fotógrafa de moda por la especial iluminación y textura de sus imágenes para las colecciones de Miyake, Yamamoto o Comme des Garçons. Ha sido Premio Nacional de Fotografía (1995) y su último libro retrospectivo ha conseguido el Premio Nadar 2008 al mejor libro de fotografía en Francia.

La abstracci n, nacida en la d cada de 1950 e incorporada, con su propia sintaxis pl stica, al acervo universal del arte, tiene una historia apasionante como idea y como objetivo cumplido por algunos de los m s grandes artistas del siglo pasado, desde los pioneros Mondrian, Mal vic y Kandinsky hasta sus sucesores norteamericanos Pollock, Newman, Rothko y Still. Este libro reconstruye de manera rigurosa y accesible ese viaje en el que b squeda espiritual y experimentaci n art stica se hicieron inseparables en lo que parec a el camino hacia un absoluto visual.

Living in a cramped space where Beverly Hills and Calcutta meet every day, the artists gathered here explore the tension between wealth and poverty, among progress, stagnation, and improvisation, and between the violence and civility that animates the vibrant center that is Mexico City. Compounding the complexity of urban living, high rates of kidnapping, murder and pollution become a daily threat. For the rich, the body becomes an object to be cared for, protected, even exchanged for ransom, while, for an underclass of day laborers, homeless people, and prostitutes, survival depends on...