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Los fenómenos de retoma discursiva, por recorrer transversalmente la historia de la cultura, puede decirse que constituyen el pilar fundamental de su configuración. En la actualidad, cuando las plataformas digitales pululan, las redes sociales reinan y las llamadas narrativas transmediales ocupan buena parte del escenario hipermedial, los mecanismos productores de textualidad, sus procedimientos constructivos y sus modos de manifestación en la semiosis social alcanzan una dimensión que podríamos calificar, sin temor a equivocarnos, de inédita. Este libro parte de la premisa de que, en...

This book aims to present a summary of research approaches developed, and even current, on two of the themes that since the 1980s aroused my interest, as an artist with synaesthesia, engraving and stamping systems, painter and video artist, but mainly as a researcher teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada from the 2007/08 academic year, applying the concept of synaesthesia and ideaetheia in my teaching, to enhance creative abilities (teaching innovation projects and experimental workshops), as well as the survey path about possible synesthetes among university...

The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República de Colombia—one of the most impressive gold collections in the world—is explored in this anthropological commemoration of the goldwork mastery of indigenous peoples. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world, gold was considered by natives to be a sacred element and was used by artisans to create offerings presented by Shamans to the Gods as both prayerful sacrifices and symbols of gratitude. La colección del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República de Colombia—una de las colecciones de oro más importantes del...

After overhearing an exchange between two policemen, María Mayo, a young journalist, launches an investigation into the mystery surrounding a zoo.