El lado adorable de la vida

100 years of evolution prove it: motorboats are more than just nice toys. Based on more than 300 original images drawn from archives and sales broschures, this book offers a unique insight at motorboat design and lifestyle from the early racers to classic mahagony runabouts, from fast offshores to the newest motoryachts. With a biographical overview of the diverse personalities behind the scenes of motor boating. Book jacket.

These powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In his graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas. Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this book examines his work and places it in...

El Divino Niño es una imagen esencialmente religiosa, que encarna bondad, pureza y piedad cristiana, reconocida a simple vista y que goza de alta estima aun entre aquellos que no son devotos, pues lo identifican como un elemento cultural autóctono y muy popular. La investigación señala casos en que la imagen del Divino Niño es plasmada en artículos como mochilas, relojes, gorras y en la identidad corporativa de algunos establecimientos comerciales. Este libro reflexiona sobre la complejidad de la experiencia iconográfica religiosa dentro de contextos publicitarios, y constituye una...

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 ...