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With the Luxembourg Pavilion for EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the internationally renowned practice of Hermann & Valentiny und Partner demonstrates the utmost potential of the alliance of architecture and art.
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Hermann & Valentiny : Luxembourg expo pavilion 2010, Shanghai
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With the Luxembourg Pavilion for EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the internationally renowned practice of Hermann & Valentiny und Partner demonstrates the utmost potential of the alliance of architecture and art.
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Le 10e arrondissement compte 155 rues, places, quais, squares, cités, avenues, jardins, boulevards, impasses et passages que j'ai décidé d'arpenter méthodiquement. Comme le titre l'indique, j'offrirai à terme, en commençant par l'arrondissement où je vis, une description générale de la ville. La muséification de Paris n'est pas étrangère à mon propos, mais l'œil en(...)
Paris, musée du XXIe siècle : le dixième arrondissement
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Le 10e arrondissement compte 155 rues, places, quais, squares, cités, avenues, jardins, boulevards, impasses et passages que j'ai décidé d'arpenter méthodiquement. Comme le titre l'indique, j'offrirai à terme, en commençant par l'arrondissement où je vis, une description générale de la ville. La muséification de Paris n'est pas étrangère à mon propos, mais l'œil en marche découvre tant de pièces insoupçonnées que la ville, par le jeu d'une exposition, rescintille. Les perles ne sont pas le tout du collier, c'est aussi le fil qui les tient. Un système de positionnement global étant nécessaire à la documentation des rues, j'ai adopté, après celle où j'habite, l'ordre alphabétique, et j'ai placé quelques bornes pour que le lecteur puisse, à son tour, entrer dehors. -T.C.
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August 2007
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In this engaging social and cultural history, Cheryl R. Ganz examines Chicago's second world's fair through the lenses of technology, ethnicity, and gender. The book also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other items. From fan(...)
October 2008
The 1933 Chicago World's fair: century of progress
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In this engaging social and cultural history, Cheryl R. Ganz examines Chicago's second world's fair through the lenses of technology, ethnicity, and gender. The book also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other items. From fan dancers to fan belts, The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress offers the compelling, untold stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression.
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In Curating Consciousness, Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of twentieth-century curatorial culture, and the main protagonist of this unacknowledged curatorial practice. James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was hired as the Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935. He went on to become the director of the Guggenheim(...)
Curating consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern museum
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In Curating Consciousness, Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of twentieth-century curatorial culture, and the main protagonist of this unacknowledged curatorial practice. James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was hired as the Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935. He went on to become the director of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Throughout his career, Sweeney provocatively engaged motifs of mysticism in order to cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Sweeney believed that artworks could engender visionary perspectives and induce alternative modes of consciousness in their viewers; his career can be seen as an exercise in curating modernist consciousness itself. Brennan describes how these motifs informed Sweeney's curatorial and textual engagements with specific artists and projects, including Marcel Duchamp's intricately androgynous constructions, Alberto Burri's images of hermetic alchemy and blood miracles, Pierre Soulages's creative transmutations of sacred stones into gestural abstract paintings, Jean Tinguely's apocalyptic yet playful kinetic experiments, and Eduardo Chillida's translations of theology and philosophy into sculpted fields of sparkling light.
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A museum of one's own
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When French revolutionaries sacked royal holdings at the end of the 18th century, they began the largest transfer of artistic goods in world history. By 1850 many "repossessed" treasures had come to rest in a new institution, the public museum, where they were assigned educational tasks. Anne Higonnet's book begins at this turning point in the history of art, but it looks(...)
A museum of one's own
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When French revolutionaries sacked royal holdings at the end of the 18th century, they began the largest transfer of artistic goods in world history. By 1850 many "repossessed" treasures had come to rest in a new institution, the public museum, where they were assigned educational tasks. Anne Higonnet's book begins at this turning point in the history of art, but it looks instead at another new institution, the collection museum. Emerging in London with the Wallace Collection, the collection museum spread rapidly in Gilded Age America. To the discontent of many Europeans, cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. Higonnet weaves letters, auction records and photographs into an engrossing account of the founding of both renowned and obscure collection museums. She also explores how these collectors stoked the tremendous values accorded paintings by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Gainsborough and Reynolds.
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Exploring the origins and early days of the Guggenheim Museum--when it was first known as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting--this volume reveals for the first time the Guggenheim's complex architectural history, drawing on extensive correspondence between Founding Director Hilla Rebay and artist Rudolf Bauer (whose work the Guggenheim collected exhaustively) to reveal(...)
The museum of non-objective painting
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Exploring the origins and early days of the Guggenheim Museum--when it was first known as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting--this volume reveals for the first time the Guggenheim's complex architectural history, drawing on extensive correspondence between Founding Director Hilla Rebay and artist Rudolf Bauer (whose work the Guggenheim collected exhaustively) to reveal the leading role Bauer played in envisioning the collection and the museum. It also explores Rebay's unusual curatorial conceptions and framing practices at the museum's early locations. Karol Vail provides biographies of many lesser-known artists in the museum's collection, while others discuss the museum's early history and ambitions. Architectural drawings, installation views, photographs and color plates of selected artworks help track the rise of this great museum.
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Prix de Rome.nl 2009
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This volume presents Maze de Boer, Rosella Biscotti, Nicoline van Harskamp, Rob Hornstra, Heidi Linck, Olafur Olafsson, Marc Oosting, Sara Rajaei, Helmut Smits and Jasmijn Visser--the long-listed artists for Holland's 2009 Prix de Rome award, bestowed upon an artist under the age of 35.
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Prix de Rome.nl 2009
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This volume presents Maze de Boer, Rosella Biscotti, Nicoline van Harskamp, Rob Hornstra, Heidi Linck, Olafur Olafsson, Marc Oosting, Sara Rajaei, Helmut Smits and Jasmijn Visser--the long-listed artists for Holland's 2009 Prix de Rome award, bestowed upon an artist under the age of 35.
The New Acropolis Museum
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A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines both its architecture and the archaeological treasures it was built to house.
The New Acropolis Museum
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A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines both its architecture and the archaeological treasures it was built to house.
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Les musées sont des univers à part entière. Les uns mériteraient le titre de chapelle tant on semble y célébrer un culte, d'autres abritent des collections foisonnantes, ou bien se consacrent à un thème unique, une passion, un homme illustre. Les musées de Paris, comme rarement d'autres villes au monde, font briller d'innombrables disciplines : les beaux-arts, la(...)
Nouveaux regards sur les musées de Paris
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Les musées sont des univers à part entière. Les uns mériteraient le titre de chapelle tant on semble y célébrer un culte, d'autres abritent des collections foisonnantes, ou bien se consacrent à un thème unique, une passion, un homme illustre. Les musées de Paris, comme rarement d'autres villes au monde, font briller d'innombrables disciplines : les beaux-arts, la littérature, les sciences... Le photographe Sylvain Sonnet s'est investi sur plusieurs années de prises de vues dans les musées parisiens.
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With sketches and photographs, this book illustrates the project and the different phases in the construction of Triennale Design Museum in Giovanni Muzio's Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan. Since the beginning it presented a stimulating challenge, that of providing an independent and autonomous identity to a museum housed inside the Triennale, an institution of great importance(...)
The Design Museum and the new Triennale
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With sketches and photographs, this book illustrates the project and the different phases in the construction of Triennale Design Museum in Giovanni Muzio's Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan. Since the beginning it presented a stimulating challenge, that of providing an independent and autonomous identity to a museum housed inside the Triennale, an institution of great importance in the history of Italian design during the last fifty years. The most innovatory architectural element of Triennale Design Museum is represented by its entrance through a bridge, a feature that enables the museum to stand as an autonomous entity, being at the same time part of the Triennale.
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