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The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African documentary and fiction screen media that present, evaluate and criticize urban and rural landscapes, and the rural and urban dynamic of development, in relation to contemporary issues, from biodiversity, sustainability and deforestation, to inequity, women’s rights, political instability, to climate change-related themes of water and food supply, security and sovereignty. These works, comprising multi-platform cinema, streamed moving images and especially documentaries, depict the situations and open the door to rethinking and eventually to the possibilities of proposals responding to the situations portrayed.
Estudio que recoge las manifestaciones artísticas que se han venido desarrollando en el seno del arte valenciano desde 1939 a 1975. La investigación ha sacado a la luz gran cantidad de documentación y obra plástica desconocida que obraba en archivos y colecciones privadas. En este nuevo horizonte artístico que se abre tras la Guerra Civil española, podemos establecer tres generaciones de autores plásticos. «Las artes plásticas de posguerra» comprendería las aportaciones situadas entre 1939 y 1956, época marcada por todas las dificultades y privaciones de la postguerra, en un contexto plástico que hacía de la tradición el punto de referencia. «Abstracción y figuración en los años cincuenta», etapa entre 1956 y 1964, cuyos representantes cruzaron la frontera de la abstracción o apostaron por lenguajes de modernidad en el seno de la figuración. La tercera generación comprende la última etapa del franquismo, desde 1964, con aportaciones que se vertebran en tres bloques: «Pop Art y Realismo Social», «La segunda generación abstracta» y «Las estéticas individuales en los años sesenta».
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Pablo Picasso was one of the most innovative, experimental, prolific, influential, and controversial painters of the twentieth century. An updated and re-designed version of the large-format book published in the year 2000, this small-format Picasso. The Monograph 1881-1973 offers more than 1,200 new-scanned reproductions spanning the artist’s entire career. The three authors are all experts: Léal and Bernadac both former curators of the Musée Picasso in Paris are, at this time and respectively, curators of the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre Museum, and Piot coauthored the catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculpture. Brigitte Leal covers Picasso's formative years from 1881 through 1916,...
In the closing decade of the last century, we saw warnings that infectious diseases will require much more attention from patients and physicians in the 21 st century. Recently d- covered diseases such as AIDS pose a major threat to the population at large, and to that threat has been added the re-emergence of established pathogens, microbes that were re- ily treatable in the past. Since infectious diseases already play a major role in the burden of illness and mortality, health care providers and planners are worried. A large proportion of the problem is man-made, arising mainly from the unnecessary overuse of antimicrobials in hospital and community settings and from the agricultural misus...
The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along with removing outdated material, this edition updates every chapter and expands the content to include emerging areas, such as sentiment analysis.New to the Second EditionGreater
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy continues to evolve at a rapidpace. Growing clinical experience and additional clinical trialsare resulting in changes in how patients are selected for CRT. This new edition of the successful Cardiac ResynchronizationTherapy builds on the strengths of the first edition, providingbasic knowledge as well as an up-to-date summary of new advances inCRT for heart failure. Fully updated to include information ontechnological advances, trouble shooting and recent key clinicaltrials, and with nine new chapters, this expanded text provides thelatest information, keeping the reader up-to-date with this rapidlyevolving field. The second edition of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapyis an essential addition to your collection.
"The definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration." -Met Home Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. This updated volume comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings. His spectacular cultural and civic projects have secured Calatrava's place in the pantheon of world-class 21st-century architects. Among these are the Athens Olympics Sports Complex; the Tenerife Concert Hall in the Spanish Canary Islands; the Valencia Science Museum, Planetarium, and Opera House, and the much-anticipated World Trade Center Transportation Hub. This newest edition introduces Calatrava's latest triumphs, including the expressive Turning Torso tower in Sweden and the Chicago Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the US when built. A catalogue raisonne, detailed biography, and bibliography complete this comprehensive monograph.