Contemporanea

Students of advanced Spanish share a desire to use and understand the language, even as their backgrounds and goals for the language may vary widely. En otras palabras provides advanced learners of Spanish with hands-on manipulation of grammatical, lexical, and cultural detail through the practice of translation (traducción). This challenging and enjoyable textbook—now in its second edition with up-to-date texts on current events, new exercises, and new and expanded instructions—presents students with incisive grammar explanation, relevant lexical information, and a wide variety of...

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

Video Green examina el boom del arte de Los Ángeles impulsado por los programas de graduados de alto perfil a finales de la década de 1990. Sondeando la superficie de los términos críticos en boga, Chris Kraus realiza una brillante crónica de cómo la ciudad de Los Ángeles se transformó, de repente, en el epicentro del mundo del arte internacional y en un microcosmos de la cultura más amplia. ¿Por qué está Los Ángeles tan completamente divorciada de otras realidades de la ciudad? Un libro inteligente, analítico y agudo, Video Green, es al mundo del arte de Los Ángeles, lo que...

El amor es sin duda un sentimiento increíble y que lamentablemente muy pocos saben valorar, porque relacionamos el amor solo con la atracción que sentimos hacia otra persona y no nos damos cuenta de que existen distintos tipos de amor. Aprendemos a que no debemos permitir recibir menos amor de que nosotros damos, aprendemos a valorar a quienes estas cerca y sobre todo aprendemos el verdadero significado del amor.