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Buenos Aires City Bus: El libro de los colectivos
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BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITIONBuenos Airess public transportation has never fared well under government control, so today, as for most of the last centurysince the stagecoach daysits buses are owned and run by private companies, the collectives. Not only do these ancient machines not come in a single, municipal color scheme, but also no one bus is the same as any other. Buenos Aires City Bus catalogues the painted motifs and altered hood ornaments that identify the buses, and presents interior photographs of their gleaming upholstery. Hearts, flowers, horses, lizards, stars, crowns, top hats and Virgin Marys adorn every surface, as do figureheads, stuffed animals and heartshaped mirrors. Modifications to lights, gastank covers, and manufacturer logos will bring readers inner hotrodders to life. Each piece of bouncing, exhaustbelching folk art is signed in curly script.En qu se diferencia el colectivo porteo (invento argentino!) de otros medios de autotransporte urbano y suburbano del resto de las grandes metrpolis? Bueno, eso es lo que este libro pretende registrar: el amor de los choferes puesto en los pequeos detalles ornamentales segn una tradicin cuyo recorrido comienza con las lneas graficas, el filete porteo, volantes nacarados, incrustaciones, luces, y puede terminar con zapatitos, escarpines, estrellas en techos capiton y cortinas matelas.El colectivo porteo conserva (aunque enroscadas) las afirmaciones simblicas del espritu nacional (incluyendo la fantasa de un escudo argenyang). El dandy, el noble, la noche y la buena bebida, encuentran tambin en este espacio su representacin formal. La historia del colectivo puede leerse aqu en secciones tan desopilantes como confort y discapacidad, el discurso de la doble animalidad o Xuxa y peluche.Buenos Aires da sus espaldas a un ro marrn, y la frente al retroceso de los espacios verdes. En desigual batalla, el implacable avance del gris es resistido con estoicismo, en original arco iris, por la paleta de los colectivos. Indique su destino.
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