Translation, Mediation and Accessibility for Linguistic Minorities

Este libro recoge cuatro ensayos sobre la idea de "esencia" en arquitectura, que Juhani Pallasmaa ha ido desarrollando a lo largo de su ya dilatada carrera como arquitecto y pensador. Los textos abarcan la última década de su obra teórica y realizan una aproximación biohistórica y existencial al arte de la arquitectura. Se trata de una superación de la mirada puramente visual, que Pallasmaa sintetiza con las siguientes palabras: "Creo que las experiencias más conmovedoras en arquitectura nacen de memorias y significados bioculturales secretos y preconscientes, más que de una estética ...

The life of Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) is as compelling as that of any of the women she portrayed in dozens of unforgettable movies and plays—a list that includes Casablanca, Intermezzo, Gaslight, The Bells of St. Mary's, Notorious, Anastasia, and Hedda Gabler. Hers is a story that begins with a tragic childhood in Sweden, then moves on to the nightmare of Germany under the Nazis and later to Hollywood in its golden age. From her position as America's most beautiful, admired, and loved actress, she was plunged into national disgrace and branded "an apostle of degradation" for her...

Las claves para entender las obras maestras de la historia del arte deben buscarse en una combinación de símbolos, temas y motivos que muchas veces escapan a nuestra comprensión actual. Sin el detallado conocimiento de la mitologia griega y romana, la cultura popular, la historia sagrada o la teología cristiana que resultaban tan familiares a los artistas y a sus contemporáneos, bien a menudo no acertamos a entender las referencias y las metáforas visuales que daben sentido a las pinturas a ojos de sus primeros espectadores.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...