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Blueberry Express is a collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The book features the larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years. Misaki Kawai has had solo exhibitions around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Watari(...)
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December 2009
Misaki Kawai: blueberry express
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Blueberry Express is a collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The book features the larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years. Misaki Kawai has had solo exhibitions around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo; and has been featured in shows at PS1 and Deitch Projects in New York. She is currently represented by Take Ninagawa in Tokyo and Galleri Loyal in Sweden.
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This book is a small collection of some of the work McFetridge has done for Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the book Where the Wild Things Are. Born in Canada, but trained at the California Institute of the Arts, McFetridge won public acclaim as a designer when he was still a student. For two years, he was art director of the famous underground Beastie Boys magazine(...)
Geoff McFetridge: recent works
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This book is a small collection of some of the work McFetridge has done for Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the book Where the Wild Things Are. Born in Canada, but trained at the California Institute of the Arts, McFetridge won public acclaim as a designer when he was still a student. For two years, he was art director of the famous underground Beastie Boys magazine Grand Royal. Since then he has worked for numerous clients ranging from Nike, Pepsi, and Stüssy to Burton, Girl and 2K/Gingham. He made clips for Plaid, Simian, and recently also for The Whitest Boy Alive, and he created film title sequences for The Virgin Suicides and Adaptation. He is one of the Beautiful Losers, and makes solo exhibitions from Los Angeles to Paris and from London to Tokyo.
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Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see. Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers(...)
The incredible journey that is consciousness
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Squares, circles and triangles are at the core of what makes the industrial world around us. A universal visual language apparent in all things—the tools we use, the fashion we wear, the buildings we live in and the communications we see. Visionary modernist architects, designers and artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, and Josef Albers celebrated both the beauty of form as well as the functional potential hidden within these 3 primary shapes and colors. This publication invites each reader to interpret a landscape of symmetries, simplicities and geometric structures.
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
Un Sedicesimo 30: abstract forecast
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
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Fleurs japonaises
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Pionnier de la photographie japonaise et éminent éditeur de photographie durant l’ère Meiji, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) a publié à l’intention du marché occidental un grand nombre de livres illustrés présentant des vues du Japon traditionnel. L’ouvrage qui paraît en 1896 sous le titre Some Japanese Flowers, dont il existe un exemplaire original dans les collections du J.(...)
Fleurs japonaises
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Pionnier de la photographie japonaise et éminent éditeur de photographie durant l’ère Meiji, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) a publié à l’intention du marché occidental un grand nombre de livres illustrés présentant des vues du Japon traditionnel. L’ouvrage qui paraît en 1896 sous le titre Some Japanese Flowers, dont il existe un exemplaire original dans les collections du J. Paul Getty Museum, présente de délicates images de fleurs indigènes japonaises – notamment des lotus, plusieurs variétés de chrysanthèmes et de lys, et des volubilis – prises par Ogawa lui-même et tirées selon un procédé appelé phototypie, les épreuves ayant ensuite été coloriées à la main.
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London Deco
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Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator currently living and working in London. His work is characterised by his love of architectural facades and his fondness for pen and Indian ink. Today he is renowned for his intricately detailed, hand-drawn architectural illustrations.
London Deco
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Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator currently living and working in London. His work is characterised by his love of architectural facades and his fondness for pen and Indian ink. Today he is renowned for his intricately detailed, hand-drawn architectural illustrations.
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually(...)
Un Sedicesimo 25a: Nathalie du Pasquier
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually belong to meet on the paper in new and exciting combinations. Nathalie Du Pasquier was born in Bordeaux (France) in 1957, she has lived in Milan since 1979. Until 1986 she worked as a designer and was a founder member of Memphis for which she designed many textiles, carpets, furniture and objects. When the group broke up in 1987, painting became her main activity.
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Bohemians: a graphic history
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The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of(...)
Bohemians: a graphic history
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The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of Greenwich Village, the multiracial and radical jazz world, and West Coast and Midwest bohemians, among other scenes. Drawn by an all-star cast of comics artists, including rising figures like Sabrina Jones, Lance Tooks, and Summer McClinton, alongside established artists like Peter Kuper and Spain Rodriguez, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history.
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Komiks: comic art in Russia
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José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks--an art form much-maligned as "bourgeois" mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR-- with an emphasis on the last twenty years. The book provides heretofore unavailable access to a rich artistry through unique archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and(...)
Komiks: comic art in Russia
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José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks--an art form much-maligned as "bourgeois" mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR-- with an emphasis on the last twenty years. The book provides heretofore unavailable access to a rich artistry through unique archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and readings of several artists and works--many unknown in the West.
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This catalogue presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s cartoon works, which he created for various publications throughout his lifetime, most notably the progressive tabloid daily newspaper P.M., in which his How to Look series first appeared in 1946.
How to look : Ad Reinhardt art comic
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This catalogue presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s cartoon works, which he created for various publications throughout his lifetime, most notably the progressive tabloid daily newspaper P.M., in which his How to Look series first appeared in 1946.
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