El sagrado corazón de Jesús

The present research study represents art historian Ramirez' reflections on the modernistic movement developed in Mexico in the early 20th century through detailed examination of diverse critical texts published in exhibition catalogues and other publications. The author analyses the protagonists, the institutions (particularly that of the National School of Fine Arts) and the visual expressions that represented the modernist alternative of Post Revolutionary Mexico. Some names mentioned include noted artists like: Jesús Contreras, Julio Ruela, German Gedovius, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl),...

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...

"Si leer puede ser una fiesta, ¿por qué limitarse a una serie de reglas idénticas o de protocolos previsibles?" En estas páginas, Eduardo Berti ensaya respuestas a esta pregunta y nos propone nuevas formas de leer ficción: activas y creativas, a partir de métodos fáciles e innovadores, individuales o colectivos, analíticos o humorísticos. Un "confesionario poético", la construcción de una casa a partir de las páginas de un libro, o el uso de ese mismo libro —u otro, recordemos que aquí no hay reglas— como almohada, una lectura telefónica a un desconocido, o un camino a...

This book tries to be a proposal for the description of function inside a descriptive semiotic-functional sentence model. The author's purpose is to characterise this function as a symbolic scheme and so, follow Alarcos' model in relation to the category of function.