No es lo mismo ostentoso que ostentóreo

This collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema is drawn from various "little magazines" published in Spain from 1919-1930. This volume, edited by Paul Ilie, is intended to serve as a tool with which to break new ground in the study of the Spanish vanguard.

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...

Los mesoamericanos comenzaron a desarrollar, siglos antes de la era cristiana, incipientes formas de escritura. No todos los mesoamericanos llegaron a poseer una escritura completa; correspondio a los mayas la invencion de tal logro. Entre los mixtecos, nahuas y otros mesoamericanos, al no tener una escritura completa, se mantenia la tradicion oral. El proposito de este libro es valorar el largo proceso que marco el destino de la palabra indigena a partir de la Conquista, atendiendo a los testimonios de oralidad que se trasvasaron a escritura alfabetica.