Jackson Pollock

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate...

Quality assurance has been a major issue in Higher Education discourse during the past decade. Evaluations, accreditations and assessments have almost become standard procedures within the framework of translation studies. This quest for quality has not only to integrate market needs and new market requirements, but also novel strategies in training - whereby training learners and trainers has to be given equal attention. Translation quality has become a key issue in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication market as well as in the translator education environment. It has to be...

Este monográfico reúne un amplio paradigma de metodologías aplicadas a la poesía medieval, punteras en el ámbito internacional y las más actuales en el espectro científico sobre cancionero y romancero. Muchas de ellas se fundan en un enfoque pragmático, desde el estudio de sus fuentes, como parte fundamental de la recensio y base de la filología material, hasta la investigación histórica sobre contextos y poetas, pasando por instrumentos que facilitan y sistematizan los procesos de fijación de los textos, como vía de difusión de la poesía medieval. Esta treintena de trabajos...

Esta obra ilumina muchas cuestiones relacionadas con los comienzos de las proyecciones cinematográficas en la capital hispalense: desde la sesión pionera (Salón Suizo, 17 de septiembre de 1896) hasta el primer año de exhibiciones ininterrumpidas y simultáneas en varios locales.

A collection of printed monographs on the aesthetic and mythological concepts of the Latin American Pre-Columbian art previously published in out-of-print editions. The author selected and updated each essay that included: Paradigmas del arte de Amerindia; Los Códices (Libros), Orfebrería Colombiana; Azteca: La monumentalidad trágica; Inca: Forma y especialidad and others.