$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Intrepid Prussian explorer, scientist, diplomat and author Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was reputedly the second best-known person in early nineteenth-century France (Stephen Jay Gould describes him as "probably the world's most famous and influential intellectual [of his time]"), yet he is little known in the US today. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt traversed about(...)
Unity of nature: Humboldt and the Americas
Actions:
Price:
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Intrepid Prussian explorer, scientist, diplomat and author Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was reputedly the second best-known person in early nineteenth-century France (Stephen Jay Gould describes him as "probably the world's most famous and influential intellectual [of his time]"), yet he is little known in the US today. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt traversed about 6,000 miles, journeying through the Spanish American colonies (modern-day Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Cuba) to observe nature in the "torrid zone," and later published some 30 volumes about his travels. This catalogue traces the breadth of Humboldt's influence through painting and objects, including work by Albert Bierstadt, Adela Breton, Norton Bush, Frederic Edwin Church, George Catlin, Martin Johnson Heade, Louis Rémy Mignot, Thomas Moran, Johann Moritz Rugendas and Mark Dion.
Gardens
$28.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Coproduced with the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, this fully illustrated book contains essays by Gwendolyn Owens and Saul Ostrow; and an interview between Yasmeen Siddiqui and Melvin Charney. Among Charney’s most compelling works are his painted photographs, the subject of this book and of an accompanying exhibition held at Americas Society in spring 2008.(...)
March 2010
The painted photographs of Melvin Charney : between observation and intervention
Actions:
Price:
$28.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Coproduced with the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, this fully illustrated book contains essays by Gwendolyn Owens and Saul Ostrow; and an interview between Yasmeen Siddiqui and Melvin Charney. Among Charney’s most compelling works are his painted photographs, the subject of this book and of an accompanying exhibition held at Americas Society in spring 2008. Through this unique artistic process, Melvin Charney makes us more aware of the triumphs, tragedies, and absurdities of the modern city, and compels us to see the city and its buildings in a completely new way.
$65.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Moderno examines how design transformed the Latin American domestic landscape in a period marked by major stylistic developments and dramatic social and political change. Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela entered an expansive period of economic growth in the late 1940s which was accompanied by the purposeful modernization of major cities and the conscious importation of the(...)
Moderno: Design for living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela 1940-1978
Actions:
Price:
$65.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Moderno examines how design transformed the Latin American domestic landscape in a period marked by major stylistic developments and dramatic social and political change. Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela entered an expansive period of economic growth in the late 1940s which was accompanied by the purposeful modernization of major cities and the conscious importation of the International Style. This volume explores how the period’s influx of European and North American architects, designers, artists and entrepreneurs in Latin America influenced a generation of local architects and designers beginning to see themselves as active players in the creation of modern national identities.
Interior Design