Browsing by Autor "A Serenella"

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Artes mecánicas, "educación especial" e indiferencia social. La instauración de la instrucción pública de las artes y oficios en Venezuela (1826-1936)
(2021) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
This article describes the efforts carried out by the Venezuelan government between 1826 and 1936 in order to establish the formal education of artisans under the model of «school of arts and crafts». To this aim a documental review of laws, government decrees and ministerial memoirs was undertaken and contrasted with secondary sources to outline the trajectory of the first governmental school on this subject in this country. The article ends unveiling the four main obstacles faced by the Venezuelan State in its adventure to stimulate and improve the practice of “Mechanical Arts” in contexts unable to assimilate their benefits.
Contiendas entre lo criollo y lo extranjero: la comercialización de productos importados para el espacio doméstico en la ciudad de Mérida-Venezuela (1890-1950).
(2015) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
The city of Merida (Venezuela) was in partial isolation until entered the 20th century, a fact that did not prevent the privilege of „the foreign‟ over „the creole‟ thing. Since the end of the 19th century, it enjoyed a dynamic import trade that provided the wealthy classes with top-technological products for domestic use. Local magazines and daily newspapers promoted many articles, emphasizing their nature, their brands and their countries of origin. Nevertheless, this eager taste for the foreign generated critiques in the press, so the following work shows how some retailers offered those products to the consumer while thinkers of the time called the attention of the public expressing what they believed the society/country was losing with the passive acceptance of foreign objects.
Entre el ser y el parecer: las exhibiciones venezolanas en las exposiciones internacionales (1862 - 1904)
(2016) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
Partiendo de un analisis de la relacion entre el diseno de la infraestructura que funge como soporte (pabellones y/o stands de exposicion), contenedor y primera impresion de Venezuela en varias Exposiciones Internacionales realizadas entre 1862 y 1904, asi como del tipo de productos que -cual contenido- se exponen dentro de dichos pabellones o stands, el presente trabajo aborda la manera en que se construyeron imagenes contradictorias del pais para tratar de seducir al mundo globalizado de la epoca. Con este fin se estudiaron registros lexicos, somaticos y escopicos (Mandoki, 2007) como via para delinear las estrategias mas frecuentes de proxemica, enfatica, supresion, adicion y deformacion (Durandin, 1990; Mandoki, 2007), que cobraron vida en los programas claramente propagandisticos del Estado venezolano, expresando una tension permanente entre el ser y el parecer (Greimas y Courtes, 1990) por intentar resaltar sus fortalezas y esconder sus debilidades.
Identidad en el Diseño Industrial contemporáneo de América Latina (Brasil, Colombia y México)
(2021) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
Although Latin America has tried to establish its identity in several moments without achieving a unified image, Industrial design products from prominent Latin-American designers stand out more and more in the international market. The ways to create identity in the field of design have been several, and from the analysis of some experiences in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, certain ways of proceeding have been pointed out which have resulted useful to generate products that reflect a strong relationship between local and global.
Identidad Nacional en la 'Sociedad del Espectáculo'. Representaciones de Venezuela en las Exposiciones Internacionales del siglo XIX
(2014) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
In 1830 Venezuela attracted the commercial interests of Europe and the United States through mechanisms like the International Exhibitions: expression of national identity, progress and modernity. In the following article images refl ected self-identifi cation through the architectural styles of Venezuelan pavilions are discussed, the space of its exhibition and the nature of the those, characteristics that shows a number of contradictions between the outside and inside by fast changes occurred, complex and disjointed experienced by this nation to join the advanced world and show society.
Nociones del interior doméstico urbano entre los siglos XVI y XX en los estratos medios de Europa y Norteamérica según la historia social del diseño
(2021) Cherini Ramírez; A Serenella
The following work outlines the social, cultural and historically-specific character of the concept of domestic interior from the social history of design perspective. Standing on a comparative analysis of the configurations of some urban domestic interiors of the bourgeois and middle classes of England, France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Spain and America from the 16th till the 20th centuries, six notions of the domestic interior are established, which reflect the ideas and values prioritized by these societies to give form and content to such a kind of space according to their needs and wishes.