Estética y teoría del arte son disciplinas -y actividades- que desarrollan su marco teórico en el Siglo de las Luces, en estrecho contacto con la historia y la crítica de arte, con la progresiva difusión y popularización de las obras en salones y exposiciones, el auge del periodismo, etc. Fenómenos que hoy son cotidianos tuvieron entonces su punto de partida e incidieron de manera decisiva en la configuración de las diferentes teorías. Este primer volumen de la Historia de las ideas estéticas y de las teorías artísticas contemporáneas analiza ese proceso tal como se produjo a lo largo de los siglos xviii y xix, procurando destacar los momentos, temas y autores que constituyen sus ejes fundamentales y relacionando aspectos que son tratados habitualmente de forma independiente. El resultado es una historia que propone, también, una concepción de la estética y la teoría del arte diferente de la habitual. En este primer volumen de la Historia de las ideas estéticas y de las teorías artísticas contemporáneas se abordan los principales problemas y se analiza a los más destacados autores en este campo. Se inicia con un análisis de los importantes cambios habidos en el siglo xviii, en especial el desarrollo de la estética empirista y el movimiento ilustrado, pero también las teorías arquitectónicas y fenómenos como el de la crítica de arte y el desarrollo de los salones. Los autores fundamentales para la comprensión de la historia de la estética son motivo de una especial atención: Kant, Addison, Burke, Hume, etcétera.

Juan Antonio Ramı́rez examines the complex ideological, artistic, political and architectural repercussions of apian metaphors and their influence on architecture and ecological thinking for those in the Modern Movement of architecture.

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games – the origin of all cultural activity, the dialectic chaos-order, axial civilizations – the germ of our time, and the struggle between generations – a factor of social transformation, and, within the second, creative capitalism, creative work in the context of the global economy of risk and uncertainty, and representative democracy. However, these two concepts are not isolated, but deeply interrelated, in a way that explains how creative originality builds a temporal narrative. It has been dislocated in late modernity and, with it, creativity has been broken.

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and filmmakers made us a 'color conscious' society. This influenced what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color's polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. Anders Steinvall is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden. Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf

Accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today: ¡Moda Hoy! examines Latin American and Latinx fashion design from the past 20 years, asking “What is Latin American fashion design in the 21st century”? The book seeks to explore the sociohistorical influences and cultural dynamics that have propelled the development of the unique sartorial bricolage that is Latin American and Latinx fashion. Through a series of themes and topics favored by contemporary designers – including Indigenous heritage, art, sustainable design, politics, gender, elegance, and popular culture – it highlights established designers with a strong international presence, such as Isabel Toledo, Carolina Herrera, Rick Owens, Oscar de la Renta, Carla Fernández, and Gabriela Hearst. Accompanied by regional brands and emerging talents, and case studies that take an in-depth look into specific designers, and beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today is essential reading for fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in Latin American studies, and all who appreciate the history and visual culture of fashion and Latin America.