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"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century after Iberian rule was defeated in the 1820s. Most immediately, the author has sought to provide a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of knowledge, combining the methods of global intellectual history with a new way of thinking about nations as experienced and enacted as well as how they are imagined, and in so doing offer a new interpretation of the history of independent Latin America to illustrate its wider significance in the making of the modern world. By bringing these lines of inqui...
Esta publicación explora los orígenes del sistema de patentes de invención en Chile, con énfasis en los discursos, representaciones y prácticas de los principales agentes e inventores que participaron del sistema de propiedad industrial entre los años 1840 y 1880. Se documentan los adelantos técnicos introducidos en el país y la actitud del Estado respecto a la innovación nacional en productos y procesos. También, de qué manera se adaptaron o imitaron tecnologías importadas y en cuáles sectores productivos se manifestaron con mayor fuerza.
"Authored by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin, World History of Design is an indispensable new multi-volume work, providing a comprehensive and detailed historical account of design from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century"--
Provides a comprehensive and detailed historical account of design from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century.
This is the first volume of the World History of Design, the definitive historical account of global design by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin. The first volume explores the earliest cave art and human tools, including the key examples of the visual and material culture that were produced in all parts of the world from the first stages of human civilization, the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, and finally World War I. This richly illustrated volume contains over 380 images, with 72 in full colour.
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Results of a 5-year detailed research project and the recompilation and selection of more than 300 posters created in Chile and aboard, mostly unpublished, and of high patrimonial value. The Chilean posters created during 1964 and 1988 were an important mass communication media of the social movements before and during President Pinochet's regime efficiently expressing the complexity of the social, cultural and politic context of the country under the military dictator. An archaeological reconstruction of the Chilean poster production conducted between 1967 and 1988. Osses and Vico made a rigorous but readable graphic analysis of this period. According to academic Patricio Rodriguez-Plaza, the poster "condenses and imaginatively constructs the whole epoch of the contemporary history of our country."