Frank Carlson Library

Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann's re-figuring of the city, with its unrelenting straight boulevards, stirring vistas and uniform buildings, create a 'mass produced' image of Paris? If so, who benefited - and...

Inaugurée au musée André-Malraux du Havre en septembre 2002, puis transportée à la Galleria d'Arte moderna de Turin au printemps 2003, l'exposition Perret, la poétique du béton a été présentée au début de l'année 2004 au palais de la Porte Dorée à Paris (qui accueille provisoirement l'In... À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia...

Despina Stratigakos is associate professor and interim chair of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of Hitler at Home and A Woman's Berlin: Building the Modern City. A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared....

An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This celebration of the artists who came before is an exhilarating...

L'exploration des interstices Autour de la Baie: au départ le simple thème d'une manifestation d'art contemporain, l'expression est prise au pied de la lettre par Damien Dion, qui propose une épopée à la découverte de la baie de Morlaix. Explorant les interstices entre les registres cartographiques et la géographie réelle, l'artiste arpente et redessine les limites du territoire à échelle humaine, dans un récit textuel et photographique....

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was his "second Vitebsk". At first, isolated in the little...

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was his "second Vitebsk". At first, isolated in the little...

When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here, for the first time, are all the pieces to the bizarre true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm not a business man, I'm an artist," Robert Indiana said, refusing...

Que vous soyez professionnels de l'architecture ou passionnés d'urbanisme et de voyages, partez à la découverte de la cité des cinq clochers! Ce troisième Guide d'architecture moderne et contemporaine consacré à Tournai et la Wallonie picarde invite à regarder l'architecture autrement au travers d'une sélection de plus de deux cent cinquante projets, illustrés de plans et situés sur des cartes, commentés par de nombreux auteurs et photographiés...

A definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect-and a social portrait of the midcentury design world he lived in. Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the country. Talented in music and art as well as design, he rejected sleek austerity in favor of modern architecture that is warm, intimate, and beautiful. He worked from coast to coast, and his most renowned...