For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, "The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms "provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents. With more th[...]
In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self. Two allegorical installa[...]
Seventeenth-century Europe saw a fruitful creative exchange between the arts and contemporaneous scientific thought. "Mapping Spaces" traces the multifaceted dimensions of this exchange with contributions from more than forty leading scholars who, together, reflect on the influence of science and te[...]