UN PUENTE ENTRE DOS CULTURAS

Sarah Thornton es licenciada en Historia del Arte y doctorada en Sociología. Ha escrito sobre el mundo y el mercado del arte para importantes medios de Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, entre ellos The Economist, Artforum, The Art Newspaper y The New Yorker. Trabajó en programas culturales de televisión para la BBC y CBS. Es autora también de Club cultures. Music, media and cubcultural capital.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.

Explores the life and work of artist, engineer, inventor, scientist, and Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, looking at the historical figure as well as the ideas underlying his investigations of nature. Reprint.

Think you know Bosch from Botticelli? Mondrian from Miró? Think again… The Art Puzzle Book turns art history on its head by testing your brainpower and perception on some the world's most iconic paintings. Journey from ancient Egypt to 1980s New York solving riddles, discovering hidden secrets and challenging your general knowledge. Esteemed art historian Susie Hodge and leading brain trainer Dr Gareth Moore introduce you to 36 iconic pieces of art – including Botticelli's Primavera, Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Picasso's Guernica. For each painting, they reveal fascinating facts...