Capricornio

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

40 vueltas al sol, el primer cancionero de Alejandro Sanz, recorre toda su discografía incluidas las letras de canciones compuestas para otros grandes intérpretes. Letras de canciones escritas con un lenguaje poético y comentadas con anotaciones manuscritas del cantante que completan la historia que se esconde detrás de cada una de ellas. En este álbum musical y cromático se sorprenderá al descubrir el mundo artístico y la creatividad desbordante de Alejandro Sanz, autor de las fotografías, dibujos y pinturas que acompañan a las composiciones. Un recorrido en el que se observan la...

Esta guía redescubre el Egipto de los faraones en un recorrido por Luxor y la región tebana. Todos los templos, tumbas y museos analizados desde el punto de vista artístico e histórico y acompañados de grandiosas fotografías, planos arqueológicos y mapas de situación.

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of English, and students ...