Lingüística de corpus y lingüística histórica iberorrománica

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

This book comprises the testimonies of five founders of the workshop Taller 4 Rojo: Carlos Granada (1933-2015), Diego Arango (1942), Umberto Giangrandi (1943), Jorge Mora (1944) and Fabio Rodríguez Amaya (1950). It is a long dialogue held with another collective, the workshop Taller Historia Crítica del Arte (workshop Critical History of Art), setting up a document, which in addition to their voices and controversial memoirs, includes the complex documentary collections that they still preserve. Developed in the context of the vast programme of research on the relations between art and...

A diferencia de otras publicaciones con motivo del bicentenario de la Independencia y el centenario de la Revolución Mexicana en 2010, en este volumen se relaciona la emergencia de un Estado libre, independiente y revolucionario con procesos políticos y culturales de la época colonial. Los artículos aquí reunidos exploran la política y la poética del período histórico que va desde la colonia hasta la Revolución, así como repercusiones en la actualidad. Sus representaciones y escenificaciones en la literatura, el arte y los medios no son exploradas desde la perspectiva del poder,...