El Rincón de Amira

Study, inventory and catalogue of the collection of the important colonial art collection of the museum. The collections contains some of the most important works in Mexico included a 1765 painting by Miguel Cabrera. Each piece is studied in detail with an analysis of the symbolism and iconography. An excellent reference with texts by 11 art historians.

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

Partiendo de preguntas como: ¿qué es la historia del arte valenciano?, ¿existe el arte valenciano?, ¿cuándo y por qué un objeto puede ser considerado obra de arte valenciana?, la profesora Gracia elabora una exhaustiva y condensada historia del arte del País Valenciano. Establece unos límites cronológicos muy relevantes: de 1238, fecha de la conquista de Valencia por el rey Jaime I, a 1982, fecha del Estatuto de Autonomía, y entiende como arte valenciano el que se realiza o disfruta en la Comunidad, como resultado de una demanda o necesidad social, con independencia del lugar de...

Salvador Dalí was one of the 20th century's true eccentrics and exhibitionists. One of the first to apply Freud's teachings to the art painting, Dalí approached the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination. Readers can see the fruits of this union for themselves with color reproductions. Insightful text presents the infamous surrealist as he truly was.