Simple Chic

El objetivo de este manual es que aprenda a reconocer el entorno de trabajo y las herramientas de Adobe Illustrator, para llegar a adquirir los conocimientos apropiados y así poder desarrollar cualquier composición y retoque de imagen.

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 Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this book examines his work and places it in...

Los estudios sobre platería gozan en los últimos años de un auge extraordinario. No es ajena a esa moda la consideración como algo autónomo,con personalidad propia, valiosa tanto por la entidad, a veces muy espectacular de las piezas, con frecuencia joyas en el más estricto sentido del término, como por las enseñanzas de todo tipo (sociales, económicas ... y, por encima de todo artísticas) que se derivan del conocimiento minucioso del contexto en que se realizan y que explica o propicia su aparición. La Platería de la diócesis de Tui posee de entrada el enorme atractivo de...

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 ...