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En 1919, Walter Gropius fundó en Weimar (Alemania) la Staatliche Bauhaus: un lugar para la construcción. El proyecto nació como una escuela utópica en la que formar, integrando diversas disciplinas artísticas a través del objeto y la arquitectura, a los nuevos artesanos que se demandarían para un principio de siglo arrollador. Una idea que evolucionaría hacía el diseño a partir de su sede en Dessau con el célebre "arte y teconología: una nueva unidad". Apostaron por una comprensión social y funcional del arte, a través de un profundo compromiso ético y estético que hacía...

En la “Presentación” de este volumen de la colección Cartelera del cine en México, 1903-1911, Juan Felipe Leal nos ofrece un panorama sorprendente de los orígenes del cine alemán, todavía insuficientemente documentados, cuyas producciones comenzaron a brillar con luz propia en las pantallas mexicanas a partir de 1906. En ella desfilan inventores de aparatos y equipos como los hermanos Skladanowsky y Oskar Messter; pioneros del uso de máquinas traga-monedas como Ludwig Stollwerck y Curt Harzer; fabricantes de película virgen como la AGFA y la Bauer; cadenas de cines como la...

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...