Tebeos mutilados

Pese al importante papel que desempeñó en el contexto internacional durante el siglo pasado, al cine latinoamericano le sigue costando encontrar su lugar en el mundo, asfixiado por una hegemonía global de la industria anglosajona que se impone tanto comercialmente como en el circuito de festivales, y que apenas deja unas migajas para los países en vías de desarrollo. Y, sin embargo, los cineastas de la zona no cejan en su empeño de dar a conocer sus historias. El presente volumen destaca la relevancia de medio centenar de películas realizadas en el escaso periodo de tiempo transcurrido ...

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Con el asesoramiento del primer secretario Johannes Huber (2003-2008) – Secretaría del Tratado Antártico. Sede Buenos Aires. Esta es una historia distinta a cualquier otra sobre el "continente blanco", escrita con elegancia literaria y rigor académico ya que no narra sobre las pretensiones o disputas políticas de diferentes países. No valida ningún argumento de algún país, de hecho habla sobre la cultura e historia del continente, convirtiéndose en un libro educativo.

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' "Course in General Linguistics," the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered...