Aesth/ethics of distance: (Un)Veiling grief in Rosa Montero’s La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

This chapter analyses the generically hybrid auto/biographical grief memoir, La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013), by the well-known contemporary Spanish author and journalist, Rosa Montero (b. Madrid, 1951), as a singular text within the Spanish tradition of life writing. The book traces a number of parallels between Montero and her biographical subject, the Polish scientist and two-times Nobel prize winner, Marie Curie—particularly regarding their respective grieving processes in widowhood. This chapter contextualises Montero and her text within the Spanish tradition of life writing and discusses Montero’s ethics and aesthetics of distance and how she negotiates with the autobiographical genre—specifically the grief memoir—in La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

Gardens and Tourism for and beyond economic profit

Gardens and Tourism for and beyond economic profit é o segundo volume da Collection of Gardens and Landscape Studies, coordenada por Ana Duarte Rodrigues. Conta com textos de Alexandra Gago da Câmara, Ana Duarte Rodrigues, António Lamas, Antonio Perla de las Parras, Celso Mangucci, Desidério Batista, Filipe Benjamim, Ignacio Rodriguez Somovilla, Jean-Paul Brigand, Maria Isabel Donas Botto, Nuno Oliveira, Paulo Carvalho, Susana Silva e Victoria Soto Caba. Assumindo uma perspectiva multidisciplinar das áreas da história da arte, arquitectura paisagista, literatura e geografia, e reunindo académicos e profissionais que operam na área do Garden Tourism, este livro constitui um trabalho inaugural nos estudos de jardins e paisagem. Certamente que constitui um balanço baseado em casos de estudo das potencialidades do turismo de jardins em Portugal, mas também aponta caminhos e hipóteses de trabalho num futuro próximo. Constitui um convite a que todos os interessados na preservação e promoção deste património se unam para criar as ferramentas necessárias à sua dinamização e salvaguarda para o futuro

10 of 30: new Spanish narrative 2021

Esta tercera selección de 10 de 30, sumada a las publicadas en los años 2019 y 2020, completa un conjunto total de treinta autores españoles, y permite observar algunas de las manifestaciones que se están dando en la nueva narrativa de nuestro país.Autores: Raquel Taranilla, Munir Hachemi, Margarita Leoz, Elena Medel, David Aliaga, Irene Solà, Laura Fernández, Miqui Otero, Matías Candeira y Elisa Ferrer. Y el jurado que los eligió estuvo formado por Valerie Miles, Carlos Zanón, Cristina Fuentes, Carlos Pardo y Javier Serena. Se incluyen fragmentos de alguna obra suya, además de una breve entrevista y otra información biográfica y de su trayectoria literaria

Focus, frames, looks. Some complementary appreciations about the relationship between architecture and photography

[EN] The eruption of the ‘artificial eye’ in our professional world generates a growing attention, parallel to the relevance it acquires as a medium for the documentation and interiorisation of architecture. Photography has earned an extraordinary prominence among the architect’s working tools. And it demands a reflection on its level in the context of our general attention to its ‘graphic expression’; with special attention to the close relationship between our way of looking and the camera’s.[ES] La irrupción del ‘ojo artificial’ en nuestro mundo profesional suscita una atención creciente, paralela a la relevancia que adquiere como medio para la documentación e interiorización de la arquitectura. La fotografía ha adquirido un protagonismo extraordinario entre los instrumentos de trabajo del arquitecto. Y demanda una reflexión a su altura en el marco de nuestra atención general a su ‘expresión gráfica’; con particular atención a cuánto nuestro modo de mirar y el de la cámara se encuentran emparentados.Otxotorena Elícegui, JM. (2018). Enfoques, encuadres, miradas. Algunas apreciaciones complementarias sobre las relaciones de arquitectura y fotografía. EGA. Revista de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica. 23(34):122-133. doi:10.4995/ega.2018.10853SWORD122133233

The Legacy of James Bowdoin III

The Legacy of James Bowdoin III (1994) was published to accompany a major year-long series of exhibitions and programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of Bowdoin College. It includes essays by Kenneth E. Carpenter, Linda J. Docherty, Arthur M. Hussey, Clifton C. Olds, Richard H. Saunders, Susan E. Wegner.https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/art-museum-exhibition-catalogs/1000/thumbnail.jp

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Iconography and Continuity in West Africa: Calabar Terracottas and the Arts of the Cross River Region of Nigeria/Cameroon

Recent archaeological investigations conducted jointly by the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments and the University of Maryland, under the direction of Ekpo Eyo, yielded a large number of decorated terracotta vessels, headrests, and anthropomorphic figurines at Calabar, Nigeria, which date to the fifth-fifteenth century A.D. The decoration includes a variety of discrete geometric motifs, such as concentric circles, spirals, lozenges, and cruciforms, among others. This iconography is described and compared to information available in historical sources in order to locate the terracottas within the broader narrative of visual culture in the Cross River region. The decoration of the terracottas reveals strong correspondences to modern art production across a variety of media, foreshadowing in particular the ideographic script called nsibidi (or nsibiri), which has been the subject of scholarly interest since the early twentieth century. Calabar gained international prominence in the seventeenth century due to the burgeoning transatlantic slave trade, was later named the seat of the British colonial government in Southern Nigeria, and is today the capital of Cross River State, Nigeria. While the accounts of traders, missionaries, colonial officials, and modern researchers offer much information about Calabar during this time, its earlier history remains largely unknown. Thus, the terracottas offer valuable new insight into the period prior to the initiation of the transatlantic trade and reveal a continuity of artistic traditions that is significantly deeper and more widespread than previously considered

Las veras de Girona. Laboratorio de diseño y gestión para una Infraestructura Verde Urbana en Girona | Girona’s shores. Design and management laboratory for Green Urban Infrastructure in Girona

Girona - veras es un proyecto territorial de investigación aplicada. Si bien el objeto del proyecto es conocido: mallar una infraestructura verde urbana que valorice, permeabilice, y estructure los bordes urbanos, su método y operativa incorpora diversas experimentaciones disciplinares que se adaptan al contexto económico precario del sur de Europa para proponer un método abierto: • Por un lado una secuencia tempo-espacial invertida que parte de proyectos pilotos con resultados inmediatos y demostrativos que habilitan la factibilidad y adaptabilidad del proyecto. • Por otro, la experimentación con el ‘el diseño de la gestión diferenciada’ como detonante para la valorización de la vera y la emergencia de una nueva estética naturbana socialmente asumible. • Finalmente se propone un organigrama operativo por el cual la los servicios y ‘brigada’ municipal se convierten en conceptores, ejecutores, gestores y multiplicadores del mismo. Esta praxis proyectual y de investigación aplicada es un proceso vivo, abierto y de creciente escala y complejidad. La concepción y ejecución en cortos ciclos recurrentes, permite adaptar y diferir decisiones según los tiempos sociales, políticos o económicos. Y adaptarse significa persistir productivamente. Girona - shores is a territorial, applied research project. Although the objective of the project is known: to mesh a green urban infrastructure that gives value, increases permeability and structures urban borders, the method and operative feature different disciplinary experiments that are adapted to the precarious economic context of southern Europe to propose an open method: • On the one hand a reversed time / space sequence based on pilot projects with immediate, proven results that enable the feasibility and adaptability of the project. • On the other, experimenting with the "differentiated management design" as a trigger for giving value to the Shores and the emergence of a new socially assumable "naturban" aesthetics. • Finally, an operational organisation chart is proposed through which the services and municipal "brigade" become co-concepts, executors, managers and multipliers of it. This project praxis and applied research is a living, open process that grows in scale and complexity. The concept and execution in short recurring cycles permits adaptation and deferring decisions in accordance with social, political or economic moments. Here adaptation means productive persistence