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Les technologies de l’information et des télécommunications transforment notre manière de voir, de représenter et de percevoir. C’est toute une culture du regard qui change. Le corps humain s’adapte tant bien que mal à ces procédés technologiques qui constituent de fait une révolution aussi importante que le passage de l’oralité à la lecture silencieuse. Il est temps de(...)
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Les technologies de l’information et des télécommunications transforment notre manière de voir, de représenter et de percevoir. C’est toute une culture du regard qui change. Le corps humain s’adapte tant bien que mal à ces procédés technologiques qui constituent de fait une révolution aussi importante que le passage de l’oralité à la lecture silencieuse. Il est temps de comprendre ces données culturelles et physiologiques inédites et d’en saisir les modes opératoires, pour les apprécier, les réorienter ou les dénoncer.
Urban Theory
Drawing time, reading time
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This publication accompanies parallel exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, and Drawing Room, London, that explore the relationship between linguistic communication and drawing in recent art. Throughout the twentieth century, and in particular since the 1960s, artists have mined language for the subject and matter of their art, incorporating the mode, format and(...)
Drawing time, reading time
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This publication accompanies parallel exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, and Drawing Room, London, that explore the relationship between linguistic communication and drawing in recent art. Throughout the twentieth century, and in particular since the 1960s, artists have mined language for the subject and matter of their art, incorporating the mode, format and meaning of text into their work. Together the two exhibitions present an international selection of artists spanning the 1960s to today, including, at The Drawing Center, Carl Andre, Pavel Büchler, Guy de Cointet, Mirtha Dermisache, Sean Landers, Allen Ruppersberg, Nina Papaconstantinou, Deb Sokolow and Molly Springfield; and at Drawing Room, Pavel Büchler, Johanna Calle, Annabel Daou, Matias Faldbakken, Karl Holmqvist, Bernardo Ortiz and Shahzia Sikander.
David Altmejd
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The full range of Altmejd's nearly 20 years of work is featured in the book, from his earliest work--where the vast aesthetic vocabulary he has evolved over the years took shape--to his most recent series. Organized roughly chronologically, with an extensive art historical essay by Robert Hobbs as well as pithy contributions from the other esteemed writers forming the(...)
David Altmejd
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The full range of Altmejd's nearly 20 years of work is featured in the book, from his earliest work--where the vast aesthetic vocabulary he has evolved over the years took shape--to his most recent series. Organized roughly chronologically, with an extensive art historical essay by Robert Hobbs as well as pithy contributions from the other esteemed writers forming the connective tissue between expansive sections of color plates, one can trace the many through-lines that the artist has developed and reworked during his career. The book affords a close and intimate view of the inspired and wholly unique work that brought him to prominence in the early 2000s, while also providing a sense of the breadth and scope of his polymath-like creativity and inventiveness in work less well-known or chronicled.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Martin Creed: What’s the Point of It? is a large-format, illustrated publication accompanying the first major survey of Creed’s work at the Hayward Gallery in London. Encompassing the full range and scale of Creed’s work, this comprehensive monograph spans its most minimal moments to extravagant room-sized installations, neon signs, video projections and performances.
Martin Creed: what's the point of it?
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Martin Creed: What’s the Point of It? is a large-format, illustrated publication accompanying the first major survey of Creed’s work at the Hayward Gallery in London. Encompassing the full range and scale of Creed’s work, this comprehensive monograph spans its most minimal moments to extravagant room-sized installations, neon signs, video projections and performances.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Philip Guston: late works
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Philip Guston (1913–1980) was the first abstract painter to return to figuration in the postwar era and was pioneering in his mixing of high art and popular culture. He initially came to prominence as a first-generation Abstract Expressionist, alongside his close friends Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Toward the end of the 1960s, dissatisfied with(...)
Philip Guston: late works
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Philip Guston (1913–1980) was the first abstract painter to return to figuration in the postwar era and was pioneering in his mixing of high art and popular culture. He initially came to prominence as a first-generation Abstract Expressionist, alongside his close friends Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Toward the end of the 1960s, dissatisfied with abstraction, he embarked on an intense phase of drawing, which culminated in his departure from the "purity" demanded of abstract art. Guston introduced human figures smoking, drinking and painting; large heads, severed hairy legs, clumsy shoes and domestic objects such as walls, doors and lamp bulbs were among the motifs of these new paintings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This instalment of the Recent Project series returns to the work of renowned architect Tadao Ando, presenting both realised and unbuilt projects in splendid detail. In his opening essay, Ando discusses the changes that recent developments in computer technology have brought to his practice, yet also how architecture’s manifestation belongs to human power. Two interviews(...)
Tadao ando: GA recent project 2
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This instalment of the Recent Project series returns to the work of renowned architect Tadao Ando, presenting both realised and unbuilt projects in splendid detail. In his opening essay, Ando discusses the changes that recent developments in computer technology have brought to his practice, yet also how architecture’s manifestation belongs to human power. Two interviews with Ando elaborate on his recent outlook, while more than 20 projects illustrate his mastery. Among them, the RGS Center in Monterrey, the Yuan Museum in Beijing, the Hansol Museum in Wonju, houses in Mangalore and Venice, proposals for urban space in San Marino and Osaka, and more.
Architecture Monographs
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This comprehensive guide to the post-war architecture of Lisbon divides the city into sixteen urban districts, organised into individual chapters with an introductory text and a map displaying the location of each selected project, which in turn are illustrated with photographs and drawings along with relevant data and explanatory text. The year 1948 saw the conclusion of(...)
Guia de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Lisbon Architectural guide 1948-2013
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This comprehensive guide to the post-war architecture of Lisbon divides the city into sixteen urban districts, organised into individual chapters with an introductory text and a map displaying the location of each selected project, which in turn are illustrated with photographs and drawings along with relevant data and explanatory text. The year 1948 saw the conclusion of the master plan for the city of Lisbon coordinated by Étienne de Gröer, something that has deeply marked the way in which the municipality has been organised up until the present day. The examples chosen were also considered in response to social and community interests, and avoid limited perspectives.
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City Guides
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Like Bruno Munari or Charles Eames, the designer Fredun Shapur (born 1929) made a particular daring and inventive contribution to the world of children. Between the 1960s and 1980s he designed toys for manufacturers such as Naef in Switzerland, Galt Toys in Great Britain, and above all Creative Playthings in the United States. From wooden puzzles to animal disguises made(...)
Fredun Shapur: playing with design
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Like Bruno Munari or Charles Eames, the designer Fredun Shapur (born 1929) made a particular daring and inventive contribution to the world of children. Between the 1960s and 1980s he designed toys for manufacturers such as Naef in Switzerland, Galt Toys in Great Britain, and above all Creative Playthings in the United States. From wooden puzzles to animal disguises made from paper sacks, Shapur's toys still have the power to challenge and enchant, while his use of colour and graphic refinement remain strikingly modern.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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The fine watermarked paper produced in Fabriano is a success story with a rich and complex history that involves a fascinating array of stories and personalities, many of which have been researched, collected and celebrated in this impeccable anniversary publication. Several types of Fabriano paper are used in the binding, and the book includes step-by-step instructions(...)
Rags, rabbit skins and invisible watermarks - 750 years of papermaking in Fabriano
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The fine watermarked paper produced in Fabriano is a success story with a rich and complex history that involves a fascinating array of stories and personalities, many of which have been researched, collected and celebrated in this impeccable anniversary publication. Several types of Fabriano paper are used in the binding, and the book includes step-by-step instructions on making your own paper as well.
Paper and packaging design
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Comprising no less than 53 very different takes on the same question, “What is the future of architecture?”, the contents of this book range from essays and short stories to science fiction and poetry, as well as series of images and photos, practical approaches and active engagements with urban change. Answers to the question it poses cover a range of topical approaches(...)
What is the future of architecture vol.2
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Comprising no less than 53 very different takes on the same question, “What is the future of architecture?”, the contents of this book range from essays and short stories to science fiction and poetry, as well as series of images and photos, practical approaches and active engagements with urban change. Answers to the question it poses cover a range of topical approaches and perspectives, and were submitted over a period of six months by open call participants and invited architectural offices and critics from around the globe. Among the contributors are George Sinclair, Bart van Haren, Michael Fesca, Something Fantastic, Ludmilla Cerveny, Collectif ETC and many more.
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