Historia del diseño industrial

Acostumbrados a extensos tratados sobre cómo reconocer a un líder, no nos duelen prendas acercarnos a él desde otra trinchera, informal, abierta, descarada a veces, pero con la simpatía de quienes conocen, trabajan y comparten con líderes de todo “tipo y pelaje” sus gozos y miserias. Desde el más indiscutible respeto por aquellos que ocupan cargos de dirección, sólo aspiramos a provocar su sonrisa y ayudarles a mirar más allá del santuario de su condición. Renunciamos a la provocación, renegamos de la burla gratuita y -perdón por el barroquismo- del “cáustico escarnio de...

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.

This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are new sections on corpus linguistics and on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, an expanded chapter on the study of...

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...