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Este libro es una referencia del arte corporal de tatuaje y de los artistas. Como guía, brindará a estos el conocimiento de los principios y técnicas necesarias para un buen tatuaje, y les presentará un amplio rango de personajes y temas para reproducir iconografía tradicional y símbolos modernos.

The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). A pivotal figure in the postminimalist generation who was also the son of a prominent Surrealist, Matta-Clark was a leader in the downtown artists' community in New York in the 1970s, and is widely seen as a pioneer of what has come to be known as social practice art. He is celebrated for his “anarchitectural” environments and performances, and the films, photographs, drawings, and sculptural fragments with which...

En los últimos años es cada vez más patente el creciente interés de la lingüística por encontrar dominios de aplicación, en lo que constituye una forma de compromiso palpable con su entorno. Paralelamente, el componente más descriptivo de esta disciplina ha venido experimentando una espectacular transformación, merced a la incorporación de nuevas metodologías que, asentadas en principios sociolingüísticos, pragmáticos o textuales, han sido capaces de ofrecer análisis más detallados y profundos de la realidad lingüística. Del cruce de ambas tendencias surge la moderna...