La esencia del estilo

This lavishly illustrated volume examines, in over 400 pages, the best that flying has to offer, from grand airports to elegant stewardesses to the luxury of first-class cabins and private jets. With a historical over view from the development of the "flying boats" of the 1930s, to the opulence of a personal Learjet and the shear size of the Airbus A380 of the future. This stylish and informative book will interest those for whom flying is more than travel, but a passion and experience to be savoured in all of its elegance. Book jacket.

SPECIAL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photo-graphers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic conventions of art photography. Ingrained with paradox and contradiction fashion photography mirrors the moods and desired of the moment. And more:...

Kant dirá que: "Ilustración, es la salida del hombre de su culpable minoría de edad". Es el mayor acontecimiento sociocultural desde la Grecia clásica. La Ilustración consiste en arrinconar la superstición, a la vez que correr las cortinas para permitir que entre la luz de la Crítica y la Razón. La Ilustración fue la espoleta de los movimientos libertarios que sacudieron Europa en el XIX. No es cierto que la Ilustración aconteciera en distintos grados en todas las zonas del mundo. Desde hace décadas, hay un intento de negativizar la Ilustración en detrimento del tradicionalismo.

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 Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this book examines his work and places it in...