Preparando las maletas. Representación artística y diseño en el mundo contemporáneo del equipaje

Abstract

The luggage has been one of the travel aspects most neglected by researchers, despite its importance, not only because of the service it provides to travellers during their journeys, but also because it¿s one of the most important industries today. In order to save this situation, and to contribute to expanding the history of travel and luggage, this research work has been carried out by approaching the impedimenta from its plastic representation in contemporary times. For this, an extensive database has been created, from which 209 art works have been selected that have in turn been classified and analysed using a varied methodology made up, fundamentally, by the sociological method, the formalist method, the iconographic-iconological method and the historical method, which have not only made it possible to tackle the complexity of the works, but also in order to prove the intimate relationship between luggage and travel, as well as the value of these artistic manifestations as a historical document.