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Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist – Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné series spotlights and indexes his(...)
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Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist – Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné series spotlights and indexes his(...)
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String figures: the collections of Harry Smith: catalogue raisonné, volume II
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Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist – Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné series spotlights and indexes his eclectic research obsessions. Volume two focuses on Smith's erudite study of string figures, an age-old form of spiritual and recreational play that he passionately chronicled in multiple mediums. It contains photographs of the extant mounted string figures created by Smith alongside interviews, film stills and selections from his anthropological research.
String figures: the collections of Harry Smith: catalogue raisonné, volume II
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Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist – Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné series spotlights and indexes his eclectic research obsessions. Volume two focuses on Smith's erudite study of string figures, an age-old form of spiritual and recreational play that he passionately chronicled in multiple mediums. It contains photographs of the extant mounted string figures created by Smith alongside interviews, film stills and selections from his anthropological research.
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Other things
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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone, the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones,(...)
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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone, the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones,(...)
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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone, the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.
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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone, the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.
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Textiles : open letter
Textiles : open letter
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An essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Germany, plus an extensive research project (2010 14) examining the place of textiles in the history of art and culture, media, society and technology through various voices. Representing traditions found in both applied and(...)
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An essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Germany, plus an extensive research project (2010 14) examining the place of textiles in the history of art and culture, media, society and technology through various voices. Representing traditions found in both applied and(...)
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Textiles : open letter
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An essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Germany, plus an extensive research project (2010 14) examining the place of textiles in the history of art and culture, media, society and technology through various voices. Representing traditions found in both applied and fine arts, textiles hover between formalism and functionalism; as objects and techniques, they mediate between self and world, between affect-driven and knowledge-driven processes of appropriation. Functionally versatile, textiles are the fulcrum of an ensemble of activities, and illustrate relations between subject and object, material and immaterial, artistic and artisanal labor, and different cultures.
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An essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Germany, plus an extensive research project (2010 14) examining the place of textiles in the history of art and culture, media, society and technology through various voices. Representing traditions found in both applied and fine arts, textiles hover between formalism and functionalism; as objects and techniques, they mediate between self and world, between affect-driven and knowledge-driven processes of appropriation. Functionally versatile, textiles are the fulcrum of an ensemble of activities, and illustrate relations between subject and object, material and immaterial, artistic and artisanal labor, and different cultures.
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July 2015
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L'art du design
L'art du design
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Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Munari détruit le mythe de l’artiste vedette et lui substitue le personnage du designer. Ce recueil de textes brefs, accompagnés de croquis et d’illustrations, présente les diverses spécialisations du design : design visuel, design industriel, design graphique et design de recherche. Avec sa plume caustique, l’auteur se livre à des critiques(...)
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Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Munari détruit le mythe de l’artiste vedette et lui substitue le personnage du designer. Ce recueil de textes brefs, accompagnés de croquis et d’illustrations, présente les diverses spécialisations du design : design visuel, design industriel, design graphique et design de recherche. Avec sa plume caustique, l’auteur se livre à des critiques(...)
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L'art du design
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Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Munari détruit le mythe de l’artiste vedette et lui substitue le personnage du designer. Ce recueil de textes brefs, accompagnés de croquis et d’illustrations, présente les diverses spécialisations du design : design visuel, design industriel, design graphique et design de recherche. Avec sa plume caustique, l’auteur se livre à des critiques impitoyables de la création de son époque, trop statique et trop complexe. Il appelle de ses vœux des formes en mouvement, en transformation et prône la simplicité et l’équilibre, se réclamant ainsi de l’esthétique asiatique.
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Dans cet ouvrage, Bruno Munari détruit le mythe de l’artiste vedette et lui substitue le personnage du designer. Ce recueil de textes brefs, accompagnés de croquis et d’illustrations, présente les diverses spécialisations du design : design visuel, design industriel, design graphique et design de recherche. Avec sa plume caustique, l’auteur se livre à des critiques impitoyables de la création de son époque, trop statique et trop complexe. Il appelle de ses vœux des formes en mouvement, en transformation et prône la simplicité et l’équilibre, se réclamant ainsi de l’esthétique asiatique.
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Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of(...)
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Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of(...)
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Stuff theory: everyday objects, radical materialism
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Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and thus is the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism. It argues that matter has a politics, and that its new plasticity offers a continued possibility of critique.
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Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and thus is the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism. It argues that matter has a politics, and that its new plasticity offers a continued possibility of critique.
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April 2014
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Géoesthétique
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À la croisée de courants théoriques tels que la géographie critique et postmoderne, les pensées postcoloniales et décoloniales, Géoesthétique s’intéresse à la figure de l’artiste en géographe, en enquêteur investissant les champs disciplinaires de la géographie et de la cartographie comme terrains d’investigation épistémologique. L’ouvrage mobilise une analyse(...)
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À la croisée de courants théoriques tels que la géographie critique et postmoderne, les pensées postcoloniales et décoloniales, Géoesthétique s’intéresse à la figure de l’artiste en géographe, en enquêteur investissant les champs disciplinaires de la géographie et de la cartographie comme terrains d’investigation épistémologique. L’ouvrage mobilise une analyse(...)
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Géoesthétique
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À la croisée de courants théoriques tels que la géographie critique et postmoderne, les pensées postcoloniales et décoloniales, Géoesthétique s’intéresse à la figure de l’artiste en géographe, en enquêteur investissant les champs disciplinaires de la géographie et de la cartographie comme terrains d’investigation épistémologique. L’ouvrage mobilise une analyse «géocritique» étudiant les représentations de l’espace dans les œuvres elles-mêmes, ainsi que celle, indissociable, d’une spatialisation de l’histoire de l’art et du langage curatorial, des contextes spatiaux dans lesquels les œuvres sont produites, circulent et sont valorisées (histoire horizontale de l’art, géohistoire de l’art, pensées de la mondialisation et du décentrement).
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À la croisée de courants théoriques tels que la géographie critique et postmoderne, les pensées postcoloniales et décoloniales, Géoesthétique s’intéresse à la figure de l’artiste en géographe, en enquêteur investissant les champs disciplinaires de la géographie et de la cartographie comme terrains d’investigation épistémologique. L’ouvrage mobilise une analyse «géocritique» étudiant les représentations de l’espace dans les œuvres elles-mêmes, ainsi que celle, indissociable, d’une spatialisation de l’histoire de l’art et du langage curatorial, des contextes spatiaux dans lesquels les œuvres sont produites, circulent et sont valorisées (histoire horizontale de l’art, géohistoire de l’art, pensées de la mondialisation et du décentrement).
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Design, l'anthologie est un ouvrage sans précéxdent ; la première anthologie consacrée à l'histoire et à la théorie du design en langue française. Sans briguer une définition, snas qu'aucune théorie ne soit soutenue au dépend d'une autre, l'ouvrage emprunte à la spéculation, à l'hypothèse, aux confrontations fécondes et au débat d'idée.
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Design, l'anthologie est un ouvrage sans précéxdent ; la première anthologie consacrée à l'histoire et à la théorie du design en langue française. Sans briguer une définition, snas qu'aucune théorie ne soit soutenue au dépend d'une autre, l'ouvrage emprunte à la spéculation, à l'hypothèse, aux confrontations fécondes et au débat d'idée.
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Design, l'anthologie 1841-2007
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Design, l'anthologie est un ouvrage sans précéxdent ; la première anthologie consacrée à l'histoire et à la théorie du design en langue française. Sans briguer une définition, snas qu'aucune théorie ne soit soutenue au dépend d'une autre, l'ouvrage emprunte à la spéculation, à l'hypothèse, aux confrontations fécondes et au débat d'idée.
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Design, l'anthologie est un ouvrage sans précéxdent ; la première anthologie consacrée à l'histoire et à la théorie du design en langue française. Sans briguer une définition, snas qu'aucune théorie ne soit soutenue au dépend d'une autre, l'ouvrage emprunte à la spéculation, à l'hypothèse, aux confrontations fécondes et au débat d'idée.
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To(...)
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To(...)
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To forgive design: understanding failure
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston’s prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late.
To forgive design: understanding failure
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston’s prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late.
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November 2014
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Disobedient objects
Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how(...)
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how(...)
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Disobedient objects
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how artists have produced work within the context of social movements, which become the vibrant engines for ingenuity and collective creativity.
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From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. It focuses on the period from 1980 to the present, a time that brought new technologies and political challenges to protest movements. Provocative and engaging, this book showcases how artists have produced work within the context of social movements, which become the vibrant engines for ingenuity and collective creativity.
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Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
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Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
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The good life: perceptions of the ordinary
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Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
The good life: perceptions of the ordinary
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Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
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July 2014
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