La política cultural en Colombia

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' "Course in General Linguistics," the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern linguistics before, during and after Saussure is traced in 20 studies honouring the scholar who has done more than anyone else to professionalize linguistic historiography during the last quarter century. Among the wide range of topics covered...

Historiography and artistic retrospective on sculptor Guillermo Ruiz, his academic work as founder and director of the Escuela Libre de Escultura y Talla Directa for 15 years (1927-1942), as well as the artists working at the workshop. The book reviews 66 sculptures, many monumental, (stone, bronze and gypsum) as well as paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and documents from the holdings of several institutions created or related to the school-workshop founded as an educative proposal of the Mexican Revolution.

Carles Rexach, una de las figuras más carismáticas del Barça y que encarna el ?culé tranquilo y relajado? conversa con Màrius Carol, sufridor donde los haya; un diálogo que saca a la luz las dos posturas antagónicas de vivir, sufrir o disfrutar el juego del F. C. Barcelona. Una divertida conversación en la que el lector seguro se verá reflejado en una de las dos actitudes, y tú ¿de quién eres: de los que sufren o de los que gozan?