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The cinematic
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The cinematic has been a springboard for the work of many influential artists, including Victor Burgin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stan Douglas, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Wall, among others. Much recent cinema, meanwhile, is rich with references to contemporary photography. Video art has taken a photographic turn into pensive slowness; photography(...)
March 2007, London / Cambridge
The cinematic
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The cinematic has been a springboard for the work of many influential artists, including Victor Burgin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stan Douglas, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Wall, among others. Much recent cinema, meanwhile, is rich with references to contemporary photography. Video art has taken a photographic turn into pensive slowness; photography now has at its disposal the budgets and scale of cinema. This addition to Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series surveys the rich history of creative interaction between the moving and the still photograph, tracing their ever-changing relationship since early modernism.
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March 2007, London / Cambridge
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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove crosscountry and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in(...)
October 2006, New York
Ilf and Petrov's American road trip : the 1935 travelogue of two soviet writers
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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove crosscountry and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost work—filled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographs—is now collected in "Ilf and Petrov's American road trip", the first English translation.
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Out of print for almost a decade, this cult book is finally back. In 1994, the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 - which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou -, was published.
April 2006, New York
Paul Virilio: bunker archeology
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Out of print for almost a decade, this cult book is finally back. In 1994, the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 - which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou -, was published.
Gordon Matta-Clark
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A thorough retrospective and monograph from an exhibition at centro IVAM, 1993..Text in Spanish with English translation. Show also travelled to Marseille and London.
January 1993
Gordon Matta-Clark
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A thorough retrospective and monograph from an exhibition at centro IVAM, 1993..Text in Spanish with English translation. Show also travelled to Marseille and London.
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This long-awaited book, nearly 10 years in the making, combines photography and Denari's texts with his trademark computer renderings of over 20 architectural projects. Three of the most important discussed are the addition and renovation of the (...)
October 1999, New York
Neil Denari : gyroscopic horizons - prototypical buildings and other works
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This long-awaited book, nearly 10 years in the making, combines photography and Denari's texts with his trademark computer renderings of over 20 architectural projects. Three of the most important discussed are the addition and renovation of the Arlington Museum of Art, the construction of an experimental space at Gallery MA in Tokyo, and the first Microsoft retail store.
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This issue of Pamphlet Architecture looks at the twentieth-century urban fabric, particularly the evolution and recurrence of letter-like building forms that sprang from the gridiron plans of American cities at the(...)
Pamphlet architecture #5 : the alphabetical city
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This issue of Pamphlet Architecture looks at the twentieth-century urban fabric, particularly the evolution and recurrence of letter-like building forms that sprang from the gridiron plans of American cities at the turn of the century.
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January 1900, New York
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Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and(...)
January 1993, Durham
On longing : Narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection
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Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the(...)
Forests: the shadow of civilization
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth.
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February 1993
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paru en 1967. Guy Debord (1931-1994) a suivi dans sa vie, jusqu'à la mort qu'il s'est choisie, une seule règle. Celle-là même qu'il résume dans l'avertissement pour la troisième édition française de son livre "La Société du Spectacle". « Il faut lire ce livre en considérant qu'il a été sciemment écrit dans l'intention de nuire à la société spectaculaire. Il n'a jamais(...)
La société du spectacle, ancienne version
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paru en 1967. Guy Debord (1931-1994) a suivi dans sa vie, jusqu'à la mort qu'il s'est choisie, une seule règle. Celle-là même qu'il résume dans l'avertissement pour la troisième édition française de son livre "La Société du Spectacle". « Il faut lire ce livre en considérant qu'il a été sciemment écrit dans l'intention de nuire à la société spectaculaire. Il n'a jamais rien dit d'outrancier. »
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Dieser 700 seitige Reader ist gegliedert durch Gegensatzpaare, zu denen sich die Autoren aus der Geschichte Berlins heraus argumentierend mit besonders dialogischen oder undialogischen Momenten beschäftigen: Zentren/Mitte, Stadt/Natur, Fiktion/Realität, Fremdbild/Eigenlogik, Gemeinschaft/Individualität, Teilhabe/Governance und Boden/Eigentum. Um diese Paarungen gruppieren(...)
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December 2015
The Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin : Berlininische Galerie
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Dieser 700 seitige Reader ist gegliedert durch Gegensatzpaare, zu denen sich die Autoren aus der Geschichte Berlins heraus argumentierend mit besonders dialogischen oder undialogischen Momenten beschäftigen: Zentren/Mitte, Stadt/Natur, Fiktion/Realität, Fremdbild/Eigenlogik, Gemeinschaft/Individualität, Teilhabe/Governance und Boden/Eigentum. Um diese Paarungen gruppieren sich detaillierte Betrachtungen und Interviews mit Berliner Akteuren.
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