Museos, arquitectura, arte

Un equipo de 19 personas de muy diversas profesiones configuran este manual, de gran utilidad en la práctica, sobre todas las vertientes de una exposición. El libro está dividido en cinco apartados: La gestión, La aplicación de las técnicas tradicionales, La ubicación y el traslado, Las nuevas tecnologías y El diseño.

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Este libro trata de una ciudad concreta –Leganés-, pero habla de un conjunto general de problemas acerca de nuestras instituciones políticas. Su argumento es, por tanto, ilustrativo. En un campo como el de los estudios políticos, saturado de referentes universales y de abstracciones sin sujeto, la aproximación etnográfica que caracteriza a esta investigación trata de ofrecer una reflexión encarnada en agentes y procesos concretos. La intención global del estudio es ofrecer un esquema de las relaciones paradójicas entre el campo de la política especializada y el campo de las...

The only city in the world to span two continents, Istanbul blends European and Asian influences with great style. Home to one of the world's most distinctive cuisines, dining here is an experience to be savored. This compendium showcases the trendiest dining establishments, sure to please even the most sophisticated of sensibilities. With elegant interiors and audacious selections of Turkish and international dishes, Istanbul is home to a dynamic dining scene where you?re sure to be dazzled. This invaluable overview to what's happening in Istanbul's dining scene is interspersed with a...