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Du Parthénon à la postmodernité, de Platon à Merleau-Ponty, Amaldi propose une histoire de la pensée architecturale et de la perception de l’espace, en même temps qu’une phénoménologie du vide et du plein, de la ligne et du mouvement. Qu’est-ce que la profondeur, comment la perspective en rend-elle compte, qu’est-ce en fin de compte que l’espace, pour nous qui l’habitons(...)
Architecture, profondeur, mouvement
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Du Parthénon à la postmodernité, de Platon à Merleau-Ponty, Amaldi propose une histoire de la pensée architecturale et de la perception de l’espace, en même temps qu’une phénoménologie du vide et du plein, de la ligne et du mouvement. Qu’est-ce que la profondeur, comment la perspective en rend-elle compte, qu’est-ce en fin de compte que l’espace, pour nous qui l’habitons ? P. Amaldi saisit l’architecture non comme un problème historique ou technique, mais comme une donnée fondamentale de notre perception et de notre sensibilité.
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The transdisciplinary studio
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We have entered a post-post-studio age, and find ourselves with a new studio model: the transdisciplinary. Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art, and design. This volume delves into four pioneering transdisciplinary studios — Jorge Pardo Sculpture,(...)
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We have entered a post-post-studio age, and find ourselves with a new studio model: the transdisciplinary. Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art, and design. This volume delves into four pioneering transdisciplinary studios — Jorge Pardo Sculpture, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and Åbäke — by observing and interviewing the practitioners and their assistants. A further series of interviews with curators, critics, anthropologists, designers, and artists serves to contextualize the transdisciplinary model now at the fore of creative practice. Including interviews with Jorge Pardo, Konstantin Grcic, Olafur Eliasson, and Åbäke; and Vito Acconci, Gui Bonsiepe, James Clifford, Dexter Sinister, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Caroline Jones, Ronald Jones, Maria Lind, Alessandro Mendini, Rick Poynor, and Andrea Zittel. The Transdisciplinary Studio is the first volume of a series of books by Alex Coles on the expanded studio model and contemporary praxis.
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Working in cities from Liverpool and Glasgow to Paris and New York, the interventionist artist transforms ordinary urban spaces, disrupting everyday life in ways that reinvent the way we encounter and experience art and compelling people to act and think differently about the world around them. Providing incisive new insights into the work and life of the artist,(...)
Cultural hijack : rethinking intervention
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Working in cities from Liverpool and Glasgow to Paris and New York, the interventionist artist transforms ordinary urban spaces, disrupting everyday life in ways that reinvent the way we encounter and experience art and compelling people to act and think differently about the world around them. Providing incisive new insights into the work and life of the artist, "Cultural Hijack" examines how these artists use the city as a playground, a stage, or an instrument for unsanctioned artworks, informal creative practices, activist interventions, and political actions.
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Pataphysical essays
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Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal’s overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, “The Pataphysics of Ghosts.” Daumal’s “Treatise on Patagrams” offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public(...)
Pataphysical essays
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Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal’s overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, “The Pataphysics of Ghosts.” Daumal’s “Treatise on Patagrams” offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public urinal. This volume also includes Daumal’s column for the Nouvelle Revue Française, “Pataphysics This Month.” Reading like a deranged encyclopedia, “Pataphysics This Month” describes a new mythology for the field of science, and amply demonstrates that the twentieth century had been a distinctly pataphysical era.
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This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art(...)
More than you wanted to know about John Baldessari : Vol. 1
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This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand. These writings address everything from matters of color in sculpture, to the dilemmas of art students in need of ideas, to the art world’s ever-conflicted relationship with money, while always returning to Baldessari’s love of language and his longstanding investigation into the tensions of word and image.
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature, and emotive power, that the word "evolution" entails. Though commonly relegated to modern-day science, the concept of evolution is ingrained in representations of life and nature in the visual arts, and artists and scientists have much to share(...)
Visual culture and evolution : an online symposium
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Few expressions in the culture of human thought have the iconic stature, and emotive power, that the word "evolution" entails. Though commonly relegated to modern-day science, the concept of evolution is ingrained in representations of life and nature in the visual arts, and artists and scientists have much to share on the meaning of human origin, human existence and human fate. The present volume documents an online symposium, Visual Culture and Evolution, in which a distinguished panel of artists, curators, scientists, historians, educators, media theorists and critics participated in a lively, informative conversation on the interface of art and science.
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Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture,(...)
Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture, poésie et prose narrative, musique, danse, cinéma.
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by 'de Appel' arts centre, Amsterdam,in co-edition with Will Holder, founder of 'the Werkplaats Typografie'. It focuses on the 'status' of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as 'the core material' of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual. This issue is(...)
F.R. David Summer 2011 : Spin cycle
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by 'de Appel' arts centre, Amsterdam,in co-edition with Will Holder, founder of 'the Werkplaats Typografie'. It focuses on the 'status' of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as 'the core material' of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual. This issue is part of a project curated by the participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme 07/08, who have hijacked the journal to encapsulate their intentions (shared, stolen or otherwise discovered). The journal explores the many intersections between circulation and storytelling.
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Revivals et remakes, culture pop revisitée, mode et musique vintages, retro ou hipster, samples à l’infini, recyclages à gogo et nostalgie écrasante… Il semble que la ”rétromania” soit une des caractéristiques principales, si ce n’est le phénomène central, de la pop culture d’aujourd’hui, de la musique en particulier. Si la culture de la citation a toujours existé, à(...)
Réromania : comment la culture pop recycle son passé pour s'inventer un futur
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Revivals et remakes, culture pop revisitée, mode et musique vintages, retro ou hipster, samples à l’infini, recyclages à gogo et nostalgie écrasante… Il semble que la ”rétromania” soit une des caractéristiques principales, si ce n’est le phénomène central, de la pop culture d’aujourd’hui, de la musique en particulier. Si la culture de la citation a toujours existé, à l’heure de You Tube, de l’iPad et de l’Internet 2.0, elle a pris une importance jusqu’ici inégalée. Telle est la thèse présentée ici par Simon Reynolds. Et de s’interroger : ces formes de la nostalgie bloquent-elles le chemin à toute créativité ou bien nous retrouvons-nous nostalgiques précisément parce que notre époque viendrait à manquer d’élan créatif ? Rétromania est un ouvrage de référence pour repenser un rock qui s’épuise à force de se parodier.
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L'artiste américain joseph Cornell (1903 1972) ne savait ni dessiner, ni sculpter. Rêveur appliqué et solitaire, il écumait les brocantes et les antiquaires de Manhattan en quête de trouvailles à ramener au sous-sol de sa maison d'enfance à Utopia Parkway, où il vivait avec son frère invalide, Robert. Il y remplissait ses boîtes d'ombre d'objets trouvés, fabriquait des(...)
Alchimie de Brocante: L'art de Joseph Cornell
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L'artiste américain joseph Cornell (1903 1972) ne savait ni dessiner, ni sculpter. Rêveur appliqué et solitaire, il écumait les brocantes et les antiquaires de Manhattan en quête de trouvailles à ramener au sous-sol de sa maison d'enfance à Utopia Parkway, où il vivait avec son frère invalide, Robert. Il y remplissait ses boîtes d'ombre d'objets trouvés, fabriquait des courts métrages à partir de chutes de films de l'âge d'or d'Hollywood et réalisait des collages hantés par l'image de femmes inconnues. Charles Simic, qui a arpenté les mêmes rues que Cornell, nous donne ici un livre de marcheur, Baedeker éclaté de cette ville réelle irréelle où Cornell a passé sa vie, à la frontière d'Onirie et d'Amérique.
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