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La Gran Historia de Ferrari.Con una información exhaustiva e ilustraciones a todo color, La Gran Historia de Ferrari presenta una crónica completa de la prestigiosa compañía automovilística italiana. Desde los orígenes de Enzo Ferrari hasta la actualidad, con los más soberbios coches de carreras que lideran la Fórmula 1. Ésta es la historia del hombre, de los coches y de la pasión que forjaron la leyenda del cavallino rampante.

This volume is the first complete history of the famous Minton company, its wares, artists and decorators, and is destined to become the standard work of reference for collectors and dealers. The authors chart the triumphs, the solid achievements, the successes and failures of this outstanding company which employed some of the most famous names in nineteenth century ceramics history, including the two French giants, Arnoux and Solon, and rose to heights of international eminence unknown by any other ceramics manufacturer once Wedgwood.. "Extensive researches into the Minton Archives have provided fascinating insights into the personalities concerned with the running of the business. The considerable biographical material has been used in the section devoted to the artists and their work; a separate section covers the vast range of wares made at Minton over 190 years of production.

Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize the female body in unnatural ways and that her mature, overtly fashionable image promotes consumerism and superficiality over and above womens liberty and intellect. Depending on the viewer, Barbie is either a malign symbol of the strategies of the capitalist system or she is a symbol of glamour, high fashion and style, a fascinating indice of cultural change and nostalgic memory. Yet both Barbies fans and detractors assume that she stands alone.In reality she is the most high profile of a series of iconic dolls that over the past century and a half have been intimately connected to notions of fashionability. The prominence of haute couture in popular culture suggests that the link between fashion marketing and dolls should be an obvious one. Yet to date this connection has not been systematically explored. Doll collecting has been viewed as an enthusiasts or curatorial preserve, while the volumes these artefacts speak about culture and identity has not been adequately interrogated. Peers original and shrewd analysis fills a major gap in cultural studies by examining in depth the dolls associations with concepts of femininity and fashionability.

El proyecto Libro de Artista, auspiciado por la Editorial de la Universidad de Jaén y coordinado por Elena Felíu Arquiola, llega a su novena edición gracias a la implicación del profesorado y alumnado de la Escuela de Arte Jose Nogue que, curso tras curso, hace posible la muestra contenida en este catalogo. Como en el caso de las ediciones anteriores, un poema inspira las obras propuestas por el alumnado de la asignatura 'Proyectos de ilustracion II' del Ciclo Superior de Ilustracion de la Escuela de Arte Jose Nogue de Jaen. Los libros diseñados son producto de la experimentacion del alumnado, que muestra su individualidad, identidad y, en definitiva, su creatividad. Texto e imagen establecen un dialogo original y unico, materializado en un obje ...