Traducción de una cultura emergente

"Splendid multiauthored volume is an important addition to Ediciones Encuentro of the Biblioteca Quinto Centenario. Fourteen erudite chapters offer comparative visions of the development of architecture and urbanism in the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies, emphasizing the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru. Selected studies reflecting a variety of methodological approaches to the subject include 'Nuevos espacios para el culto' by Viñuales, 'El convento urbano' by Gutiérrez and Maeder, and 'Santuarios de peregrinación' by Nicolini. Excellent visual material consisting of color plates, ...

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...

Uno de los motivos por los que vamos al cine es la felicidad que nos provocan las películas. Hay films que nos presentan, al mismo tiempo, una teoría sobre la felicidad: los que explican de manera sutil cómo aparece en nosotros esa plenitud instantánea por la cual seguimos viviendo. Son los que nos acompañan siempre, los que recordamos en los malos momentos, los que guardamos en la memoria y nos dibujan una sonrisa. De Federico Fellini a Orson Welles, de Takeshi Kitano a Walter Hill, de Fred Astaire a The Beatles, de François Truffaut a John Wayne, los artistas detrás de estas...

Un approccio logico ma originale, utile e vario nel suo vocabolario, sufficiente nella sua grammatica per far ottenere, in qualche mese, la capacit...di conversare correntemente in francese.