Last Chance

A beautifully produced, comprehensive look at Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez that traces her alluring and evocative paintings and sculpture from the 1950s to today Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926) often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of...

Item contains working papers of ongoing research carried out during the period between the triennial meetings, covering many aspects of conservation.

¿Merece la humanidad seguir existiendo? Durante milenios, hemos creído que nadie podía hacernos esa pregunta… hasta ahora. Tras el diluvio, la humanidad, esa que había sobrevivido al gran cataclismo, se encuentra de nuevo al borde de una encrucijada. Sus creadores, a los que llaman dioses y que abandonaron este planeta dejando su experimento a merced del libre albedrío de la nueva especie, sopesan ahora la posibilidad de poner fin a su ensayo genético en la Tierra. Entonces Teo, con la ayuda del miembro de la Hermandad de la Tierra Zack Rismor, vive una experiencia reveladora y...

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values ÃÃplus or minus¨Perfective¨, which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that different types of states, just like different types of events, can be categorized based on their aspectual composition. Additionally, the inherent semantic differences between events and states can be accounted for by analyzing aspect as applying to events internally and to...