Francisco Goya

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

"This, the third volume of the new edition of the Obras Completas de Eugenio Maria de Hostos, is composed of criticism. Part of Hostos' production in this field is gathered in this book, constituting an essential element in the works of this scholar. The principles of Hostos' critical philosophy regarding artistic and literary matters are revealed in the texts collected here."

The National Museum of Art contains a panorama of Mexican art from the 16th to the 20th centuries. 225 selected pieces from the collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, documents, and popular art are contained in the practical guide with information on the artists, themes, stylistic movements and critical thoughts over the 5 centuries that are represented. A section of brief biographies of the artists make this a very useful guide. Some of the artists include: Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mugel Cabrera, José María Velasco, Saturnino Herrán, Diego Rivera, José...

Esta gramática descriptiva, centrada en el desarrollo de la escritura y la lectura, se propone como un nuevo método pensado, en esencia, para la adquisición del español como lengua extranjera. Sin embargo, sorprendentemente, este mismo hecho es el que nos lleva a propuestas descriptivas inéditas de la gramática y, por tanto, interesantes también para el nativo. Es un texto pedagógico, claro y coherente, concebido como un medio, una herramienta para aprender español, que tiene como principal objetivo acelerar al máximo el proceso de aprendizaje reduciendo al mínimo el ruido...