Paul Cezanne

Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on 20th-century art. Color reproductions of Picasso's masterpieces are...

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...

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),...

Este libro presenta de una manera clara los principales conceptos relacionados con la traducción audiovisual y repasa sus principales modalidades. El libro ofrece capítulos específicos para el doblaje, la subtitulación, la audiodescripción y las voces superpuestas. Ofrece también un interesante capítulo sobre la historia de la traducción audiovisual. Es un libro adecuado tanto para aquellas personas que deseen introducirse en esta especialidad como para profesionales en activos con experiencia que interesados en refrescar sus conocimientos de una manera ordenada y estricta. El libro...

La figura de Jacques Tourneur se sitúa en una suerte de limbo del sistema de estudios del período del cine clásico norteamericano. La especificidad de la escritura fílmica tourneuriana y su característico lirismo formal radica en una depurada economía y fluidez narrativa, la preferencia por la connotación antes que por la denotación, la densidad significante de sus imágenes y la contrastada iluminación de cariz expresionista que presentan sus filmes, cuyas ficciones se vertebran en torno a una acentuada ambivalencia y relativización de la verdad. En la filmografía fantástica de...