Lenguaje del color

A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green.

ÍNDICE: Presentación. Prólogo - Una reflexión sobre el concepto del arte. - La sensibilidad. - Lo estético. - El estilo. - Arte y Utilidad. - El Dibujo. - Análisis de la línea. - La forma plana - El claroscuro y la entonación. - La textura. - La forma tridimensional. - La armonía. - La simetría - La proporción y el cuerpo humano. - El movimiento. - El peso como elemento plástico. - La composición. - El color. - El diseño. - El rostro humano como significante estético. - El arte como lenguaje. Índice de nombres.

The objective of the book is to resolve one of the many enigmas posed by the history of Ibero-Romance dialects in general and Spanish in particular - the strange palatalization (unconditioned, sporadic and incomplete) of /s/. Over and above this central concern, the book also pursues a fundamentally theoretical aim inspired by two preoccupations of a metalinguistic nature, the delimitation of historical linguistics and the circumstantial nature of linguistic investigation.

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...