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Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef Ferran Adrià of the famed elBulli, soon to be reborn as elBulli1846. Barcelona is a city that attracts millions of visitors in search of art and culinary experiences while cookery apprentices from around the world arrive looking to perfect their skills and expand their gastronomic horizon. The city offers an unequaled combination of restaurants, chefs, restauranteurs, media and local government initiatives to help those who arrive seeking an extraordinary culinary experience. But how has the city...
Obra publicada con motivo de las actividades realizadas entre noviembre de 2006 y febrero de 2007 para conmemorar el movimiento cultural desarrollado en Madrid entre finales de los años setenta y principios de los ochenta, conocido como "Movida Madrileña"
La publicación recoge un conjunto de textos y una muestra documental de las actividades realizadas en las tres ediciones del proyecto "Situaciones", presentado en Cuenca y definido como festival de las artes y encuentro de artistas, a la vez que lugar de exhibición y foro de debate.
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which laMovida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and international context that takes it beyond the city of Madrid and outside the borders of Spain. This collection of essays links the political and social undertakings of this cultural period with youth movements in Spain and other international counter-cultural or underground movements. Moving away from biographical experiences or the identification of further participants and works that belong to laMo...
Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of maize, the staple food and symbol of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such ‘contamination’ were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty. Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination ‘biotechnological disruption’ emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is provocatively conceptualized as a gift, that is, as the promise of a more democratic Mexico.
Edición a todo color de las lecciones, ponencias y comunicaciones que se presentaron y leyeron en la primera edición de este Congreso, que con carácter internacional reunió a los principales especialistas en la figura y la obra cinematográfica del cineasta manchego Pedro Almodóvar, Doctor Honoris Causa por la UCLM. El presente volumen cuenta con textos de Agustín y de Pedro Almodóvar, una ponencia marco de Fran A. Zurián y los textos de Román Gubern, Daniela Aronica, Marvi D’Lugo, Pilar Martínez-Vasseur, Vicente Molina Foix, Paul Julian Smith, Mark Allison, Peter Williams Evans, Kathleen M. Vernon, Alberto Mira, David Fouconier, Anna Pasqualina Forgione, Jean-Claude Seguin, Emma...
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period. The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdi...
Interactions between photography and performance during a chronological period ranging from the so-called “nuevos comportamientos artísticos” (Spanish conceptual art) at the beginnings of 70s, to the definitive institutionalization of the “tableau form” in the 80s, are analyzed in this research. This is a complex and not lineal trip, with particular interest in the Spanish context, since some important changes affecting political and cultural life took place during this period, conditioning the process object of the present work. The work tries to discuss those performance theories that emphasize the “liveness”, and doing so, pushed the photography into the background. By puttin...
Durante el reinado de Juan Carlos I la producción de sellos postales en España ha evolucionado tanto en aspectos técnicos como estéticos. La introducción de las tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (T.I.C.) no solo han colaborado en mejorar los sistemas de producción sino también en la casi desaparición de la vida cotidiana de este objeto. El sello postal es un artefacto gráfico que no solo constata el pago en origen de un envío sino, también, el país de su procedencia. Es en este segundo aspecto donde se centran los estudios de este tercer volumen de Autorretratos del Estado, en cómo se representa en Estado emisor a sí mismo en el periodo que abarca el reinado de Juan Carlos I, desde 1975 a 2014. En el presente volumen veremos cómo la autorrepresentación estatal sigue marcada por la conmemoración de acontecimientos, personajes, artistas, obras, monumentos que ayuden a completar la imagen que el Estado quiere mostrar tanto dentro como fuera de sus fronteras.
It is 1493. The Catholic Monarchs have vanquished the Muslim kingdom of al-Andalus and banished the Jews from Spain. Our hero, Don Pedro Togeiro, has joined Spain's greatest military commander, Don Gonzalo Fernandez of Cordoba, the Gran Capitan himself, to expel the marauding French forces from Italy, while his sultry raven-haired Moorish wife, Raquel, has accompanied Princess Juana to Flanders for her wedding to the womanising Archduke Philip of Austria where he savagely assaults her. Meanwhile, the dynastic Borgias are scandalising Rome and in the Indies Christopher Columbus continues his search for gold, convinced that he's reached China. Spain is on the threshold of greatness as Isabel a...