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El libro estudia la estética, definiendo primeramente las características formales y filosófico-conceptuales de las diferentes manifestaciones artísticas sucedidas en el tiempo, desglosando la comprensión del concepto estética-belleza por medio de la realización de un análisis cronológicamente ordenado de las distintas culturas: desde el arte del hombre primitivo hasta la actualidad, favoreciendo así la com-prensión de las disímiles connotaciones de cada período cultural y precisando las necesidades que motivaron los objetivos estéticos socioculturales de los anteriores. Acorde...

¿Alguna vez te sentiste tan acomodado en tu espacio que nadie ni nada podría sacudirte? Laura vive una vida apagada en Buenos Aires, pues es la única que conoce. Nuestra existencia da sus giros en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, ella lo entenderá en aquel preciso momento en el que le dan una de las peores noticias. Lo que nunca imaginó es que aparecería alguien que la alentara a abandonar su falso refugio.

Latin American Graphic Design.- In this bilingual book Romulo Peralta Moya brings together 75 designers and design studios in Latin America. He does this through a general introductory study and a one by one country case, along with the collaboration of important curators and scholars in the field representing every country. Graphic design has progressively gained relevance in the field of communication of ideas, currently turning into a true source of persuasion, given that its goal is to influence people's way of thinking, inducing consumption and generating expectations. In addition, this...

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...