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En el mundo hay entre 4.500 y 6.000 lenguas. Son muchas. Todas menos cinco -entre ellas el vasco- se agrupan en diecinueve familias. A pesar de esta riqueza, hoy muchas están en peligro de extinción. Este libro explica cuál es el futuro de este patrimonio universal, como lo clasificamos y de qué manera podemos conservarlo. Aclara también como surgen nuevas lenguas: desde el esperanto al criollo.

"A selection of highlights of Mexico's artistic heritage from the 16th-20th century is illustrated by beautiful color plates in this alphabetically arranged catalog of Mexican painters, architects, photographers, and decorative arts. Personal statements or erudite observations about the artists precede biographical summaries. With a prologue by Octavio Paz and texts by accomplished academics, this survey, the first in a set of three volumes, is a visual and intellectual celebration of Mexico's continuing artistic achievements"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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...

A lo largo de este escrito, un ensayo en si mismo, Liliana Weinberg emprende una lucida exploracion acerca de esta modalidad discursiva de la escritura, en la que se propone descubrir nuevas claves para contribuir a la comprension del que ha sido un genero particularmente fructifero en las letras hispanoamericanas, en un momento en que se vuelve necesario recuperar la confianza en la posibilidad de recrear significados comunes.