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What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and...
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form- but it remains mysterious to most of us.
In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and...
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The first comprehensive account of the history of media arts in Britain.
Based on four years of research and numerous interviews with artists and practitioners, this book uncovers the little known history of early British computer art and has been hailed by Roy Ascott: "You have done us all proud! Wonderful book, superbly researched, written, designed and produced." Roy Ascott, Emeritus Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University...
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Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows how, beginning with Tonalism at the start of the century, new directions in art emerged - starting with our early Modernists, among them Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Today, Modernism has lost its dominance. Artists,...
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The sixth book of "Latin America: Thoughts" collection, with foreword by Abilio Guerra and afterword by Paulo Bruna, brings André Marques' research on the work of architect João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, in its aspects of technology and interaction with the environment. The author also establishes relationships between Lelé's design strategies with those of the French builder Jean Prouvé and the Austrian architect Richard Neutra.
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Taking us into the minds of artists-from contemporary stars to old masters-See What You're Missing shows us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
Artists are expert lookers: they have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case.
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En junio del año 2010 se subastó en París una cabeza de mujer, una de las veintisiete esculturas modeladas por Amedeo Modigliani que se conservan, por 43 millones de dólares, el precio más alto pagado nunca en una subasta de arte hasta ese momento en Francia. La pieza jamás se había exhibido en público desde que un coleccionista privado la adquiriera en 1927. La escritora Élisabeth Barillé encuentra meses después el catálogo de Christie's...
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The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles America's love affair with the A-frame, from postwar getaway to its recent revival among designers and DIYers. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the triangle house, from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing...
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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually. And though this idea seems empowering, many people have become disenchanted with modern...
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Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean! The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy-signifying what?Abstract Expressionism For Beginners will not only help you understand, but also appreciate the art of some of the most iconic figures in modern art-Jackson...
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La obra del investigador neozelandés Stephen Zepke es una de las principales fuentes de consulta, en lengua inglesa, sobre estética y filosofía política contemporánea, y particularmente sobre los trabajos de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Adicionalmente, el autor es reconocido por su prolífica labor de crítica artística, acompañando con sus escritos algunas exposiciones y catálogos de reconocidos artistas actuales. Los doce ensayos que...
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In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition - a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art - Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.
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Esta selección de textos de Hélio Oiticica es especialmente importante. Son escritos que constituyen un momento central para el neoconcretismo en general, así como, en particular, para comprender el pasaje de la bidimensionalidad a la expansión en el espacio, tanto en su obra como en su pensamiento.
Nunca en Argentina (ni tampoco en Brasil) este conjunto había sido tan clara y específicamente agrupado en un volumen único alrededor de ese período....
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Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.¨ Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Truckstop...
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An invaluable reflection on the legacy of Derek Williams (1929-1984), a Cardiff surveyor whose generous bequest of his art collection and entire net estate coincided with a reappraisal of the role and workings of the National Museum of Wales and led to the formation of the Derek Williams Trust in 1992. Concise, insightful chapters by writer and curator David Moore examine the quality and variety of artworks assembled by Derek Williams or supported...
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Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America.
Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help-the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible....
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"Perdidas en el bosque" es un catálogo de la artista visual Cecilia Martínez, en el que se aborda su obra y el tratamiento dado a la violencia contra la mujer. Cecilia Martínez retoma el símil del cuento de la Caperucita roja para llevarnos a una reflexión amplia sobre el tema del tabú y de la transgresión del cuerpo.
En palabras de Cecilia Martínez: "La serie Perdidas en el bosque surgió como una necesidad de hacer testimonio por las miles...
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Interviews' collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last two centuries. The book features nearly 30 illustrated interviews with artists and curators, including Gerhard Richter, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Murray, Harald Szleeman, Catherine...
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"El presente ensayo procede de una preocupación de orden estético que, si bien atañe al arte y tiene en el tiempo un lejano inicio, carece aún hoy de un descargo cumplidor. Radicada en el trato que tiene la capacidad sensorial con el uso intelectivo, en El pensamiento visible la inquietud apunta preferentemente a la pintura y se enuncia a caballo de dos conceptos de larga trayectoria pero desatento empleo, su nombre, estilo y expresión. Tantas...
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