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The 3D Type Book
This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios. Contributors include Sagmeister Inc, Vaughan Oliver, Milton Glaser, Alvin Lustig, Louis Danziger, Roger Excoffon, Paul Elliman, Marian Bantjes, Geoff Kaplan, Clotilde Olyff, Italo Lupi, Marion Bataille, Antoine+Manuel, Frost*Design, Mervyn Kurlansky, Non-Format, Oded Ezer, Rowland Scherman, Post Typography, Rinzen, Underware’s Type Workshop, J. Kyle Daevel, Ji Lee, Pleaseletmedesign, and Strange Attractors Design. As well as pioneering milestones from as far back as the 1940s, this book focuses on recent and brand new typographic projects. 3D type specialist Andrew Byrom explains the context and motivation behind these innovative works in an insightful foreword. Please visit the dedicated website 3d-type.com for additional info.
Finding Caspicara
"Caspicara was the most renowned sculptor of the eighteenth-century Andean world. Yet many works that are attributed to this Indigenous artist cannot be firmly documented as he is nearly absent in traditional archival records. Susan Webster seeks to analyze not only the visual imagery and material culture of his many works, but she also seeks to lay the foundation for understanding how scholars can revive the life and records of artists and other historical figures--many of whom were Indigenous in this period--with different methodologies. By cultivating artistic theory, popular religious devotion, and specific styles of sculpture, Webster's examination of the labor and workshop practices of...
Pedro de Alfaro and the Struggle for Power in the Globalized Pacific, 1565–1644
This book examines the career of Pedro de Alfaro, a Spanish Franciscan whose 1579 mission to China collapsed amid accusations of illegal entry and espionage. The author analyzes his remarkable assessment of China's military and civil infrastructure, which had the effect of permanently changing Spanish plans for a conquest of China.
Régimen jurídico de los agentes estatales. Tomo III
Luego de veinticinco años de ofrecer a la comunidad jurídica obras colectivas de investigación monográfica, que han marcado, año tras año, la doctrina administrativista, la escuela de Derecho Administrativo de la Universidad Externado de Colombia presenta la obra Régimen jurídico de los agentes estatales, en tres tomos. Es un estudio completo de los aspectos más importantes del derecho administrativo laboral y de las distintas responsabilidades en las que pueden incurrir los agentes del Estado: sancionatoria y patrimonial. En el tomo III se aborda la responsabilidad patrimonial del personal a cargo del Estado: por una parte, la responsabilidad fiscal y, por la otra, los mecanismos para obtener el reembolso por las condenas, conciliaciones u otros re- conocimientos de la responsabilidad del Estado: la acción de repetición o de regreso y el llamamiento en garantía. También se estudia la posibilidad de ejercer la acción de reparación directa por actos de corrupción. Se trata de una obra profunda, novedosa y actual, que pone de presente la importancia de proteger eficazmente el patrimonio público, como un objetivo imperativo y de interés general
Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America
This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The book highlights not only issues shared by Latin American academies of art but also those that differentiate them from their European counterparts. Authors examine issues including statutes, the influence of workshops and guilds, the importance of patronage, discourses of race and ethnicity in visual pedagogy, and European models versus the quest for national schools. It also offers first-time English translations of many foundational documents from several significant academies and schools. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and modern visual cultures.
Praying to Portraits
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...
How to Use Type
This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design. The authors discuss who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience and appropriateness of type and communication. The book includes basic information about type and its terminology, using typefaces, designing and communicating with type, colour and movement, experimentation with type and production issues. Throughout, examples are drawn from design for both print and screen. How to Use Type includes illustrated activities and case studies linked to key issues discussed in the text. This book offers an invaluable overview of an essential aspect of visual communication.
Recuerdos de una alianza
Estamos frente a una obra colectiva muy interesante para generaciones actuales y futuras. Tal vez es una osada síntesis de nuestra ya longeva relación con instituciones francesas, tanto de formación e investigación en ingeniería, como de cooperación diplomática y académica. Es resultado de la clara voluntad de avanzar por parte de una joven Universidad llena de ilusiones y de jóvenes profesores y líderes dispuestos a tomar riesgos: la Universidad de los Andes y su Facultad de Ingeniería de los años sesenta y setenta. La República de Francia, con una visión de mediano y largo plazo, identificó un espacio para que, con base en la construcción de mayores capacidades científicas...
Sacralidad y transgresión en la literatura y el arte
El libro Sacralidad y transgresión en la literatura y el arte. Tomás Carrasquilla, Débora Arango, explora comparativamente los mecanismos artísticos de la sacralidad y de la transgresión y los condicionamientos histórico-sociales en la literatura y la pintura, esenciales para comprender la interrelación y complejidad de las manifestaciones estéticas nacionales, toda vez que en el contexto colombiano, la crítica literaria y la crítica del arte poseen desarrollos diferentes y hasta desiguales, en términos evolutivos, sin llegar a establecer un dialogo significativo entre dichos saberes y prácticas culturales. En los autores seleccionados, Tomás Carrasquilla y Débora Arango, llama la atención su profunda religiosidad que, sin embargo, no les impidió en ciertas obras tener una visión crítica de este tema tan álgido en el país en su época, aparejado en ambos con una actitud humorística, irónica y a veces hasta jocosamente paródica, frente a los contrasentidos de la vida de los feligreses, así como de los miembros de la institución eclesiástica.
