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Anyone who knows R.Crumb's work as an illustrator also knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early-to mid-1980's. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-tracks CD of music(...)
Heroes of Blues, Jazz & country
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Anyone who knows R.Crumb's work as an illustrator also knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early-to mid-1980's. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-tracks CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself. A brief biography of each musician is provided, along with a full-color original illustration by Crumb.
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October 2006, Abrams, New York
Illustration
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2001, Köln
Animal music / tiermusik: team of Jeremy Roht, west dawson, yukon-territory
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The peculiar enjoyability of this music, which - in contrast to much contemporary human music - stands the test of repeated listenings, forces one to the conclusion that, to the dogs at least, an abstract aesthetic experience constitutes the 'figure' of their play." (Oswald Wiener)
Architecture in Canada
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By means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals, in two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network. This 9th volume contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering(...)
Results Europan 9: european urbanity - sustainable city and new public space
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By means of a two-yearly competition for young professionals, in two decades Europan, a collaboration of - on average - twenty European countries, has developed into an extensive and significant European network. This 9th volume contains interviews with the designers of the winning plans in which they explain their vision. It also includes a number of essays covering such subjects as Europan in a European perspective and the theme of the competition. All the entries for the Dutch sites are included on the enclosed CD-ROM which provides insight into the competition process in word and image.
Urban Theory
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Dans une approche à la fois documentaire et artistique, Vestiges ou les fondements d’une cyberécologie parlent de l’écologie humaine, ou du fonctionnement de l’espèce humaine par rapport à son environnement. Pierre Redon s’appuie sur des rencontres effectuées sur le territoire de Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, ainsi que sur des recherches réalisées au musée de l’Éducation du(...)
Vertiges ou les fondements d'une cyberécologie
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Dans une approche à la fois documentaire et artistique, Vestiges ou les fondements d’une cyberécologie parlent de l’écologie humaine, ou du fonctionnement de l’espèce humaine par rapport à son environnement. Pierre Redon s’appuie sur des rencontres effectuées sur le territoire de Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, ainsi que sur des recherches réalisées au musée de l’Éducation du Val-d’Oise pour réaliser cet ouvrage. Ce livre se présente sous la forme d’un recueil de textes et de photographies réunis lors de la création de la Marche Sonore commandée par le centre d’art contemporain de l’Abbaye de Maubuisson ainsi que du CD audio.
Acoustics
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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture. Each project is(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2012
Detail in contemporary concrete architecture
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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans, and sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also descriptive text, detailed captions, and in-depth information for each project. A CD-ROM contains all the drawings as printed in the book, in both EPS and DWG (generic CAD) formats.
Contemporary Architecture
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In a nation founded on agrarian principles, with a cultural and physical landscape as vast as it is diverse, the barn has long been recognized as an American icon. Drawn from the vast holdings of the Library of Congress, nearly 1,000 illustrations provide a tour of barns across the United States, from New England to the Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest, and the Far(...)
Barns
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In a nation founded on agrarian principles, with a cultural and physical landscape as vast as it is diverse, the barn has long been recognized as an American icon. Drawn from the vast holdings of the Library of Congress, nearly 1,000 illustrations provide a tour of barns across the United States, from New England to the Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest, and the Far West. "Barns" traces geographical and chronological continuities of type, design, and construction, and the Dutch, German, French, and Spanish influence. Captions identify each document and building, and all images are also included on a CD-ROM (runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, requires Internet access).
Green Architecture
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Ce récit romancé raconte l'histoire de l'établissement de Ville-Marie. Le livre est accompagné d'un CD de 12 chansons de Gaëtane Breton sur la vie quotidienne dans la nouvelle colonie de 1642 à 1690. Au printemps 1641, la jeune Madeleine Drouhin quitte la France pour la traversée vers la Nouvelle-France. Après un premier hiver à Québec, les Français remontent le fleuve(...)
La périlleuse fondation de Ville-Marie
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Ce récit romancé raconte l'histoire de l'établissement de Ville-Marie. Le livre est accompagné d'un CD de 12 chansons de Gaëtane Breton sur la vie quotidienne dans la nouvelle colonie de 1642 à 1690. Au printemps 1641, la jeune Madeleine Drouhin quitte la France pour la traversée vers la Nouvelle-France. Après un premier hiver à Québec, les Français remontent le fleuve Saint-Laurent. En mai 1642, ils jettent l'ancre aux abords de cette immense île pour y fonder une nouvelle colonie, Ville-Marie. Madeleine y fera la rencontre de Qaletaqa, un jeune Algonquin dont elle tombera amoureuse et qui l'aidera à s'adapter aux conditions difficiles de ce pays.
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En 368 fiches didactiques, le "Traité d'architecture et d'urbanisme bioclimatiques" offre une approche conceptuelle assise sur l'examen systématique du « coût global actualisé ». À l'heure des grandes interrogations sur les changements climatiques, les aspirations au développement des populations du Sud, le maintien des niveaux de vie des populations du Nord, cet ouvrage(...)
Traité d'architecture et d'urbanisme bioclimatique : concevoir, édifier et aménager avec le dévelopement durable
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En 368 fiches didactiques, le "Traité d'architecture et d'urbanisme bioclimatiques" offre une approche conceptuelle assise sur l'examen systématique du « coût global actualisé ». À l'heure des grandes interrogations sur les changements climatiques, les aspirations au développement des populations du Sud, le maintien des niveaux de vie des populations du Nord, cet ouvrage veut partager avec les acteurs de la construction, de l'aménagement et du développement, qu'ils soient professionnels, étudiants, enseignants ou élus locaux et nationaux, les fruits d'un savoir concret et opérationnel. On y trouvera également dans ce livre, des informations et des sources d'inspiration pour construire une maison individuelle bioclimatique, en accord avec des convictions environnementales. (Avec CD-rom)
Green Architecture
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Audio CD, 24:43 Minutes. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press—A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its(...)
Allan Kaprow: how to make a happening
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Audio CD, 24:43 Minutes. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press—A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its predecessor. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happening is Allan Kaprow delivering 11 rules on how, and how not, to make a Happening, a movement begun by Kaprow in the late fifties that is known for its unpredictability, open scores, and constantly-evolving form.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Fraktur mon amour
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"Fraktur Mon Amour" is Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's love letter to Blackletter Fonts. It reproduces 300 variations of Blackletter Fonts, ranging from historical fonts to contemporary reinventions. Each Blackletter Font is presented on a full page along with its complete alphabet, date of origin, the name of its designer, and its original foundry. On(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
October 2008, New York
Fraktur mon amour
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"Fraktur Mon Amour" is Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's love letter to Blackletter Fonts. It reproduces 300 variations of Blackletter Fonts, ranging from historical fonts to contemporary reinventions. Each Blackletter Font is presented on a full page along with its complete alphabet, date of origin, the name of its designer, and its original foundry. On the facing page is a composition created from that font that explores the subversive beauty of this unique typeface. In addition, 137 of these fonts - including four created exclusively for this book - are collected on an enclosed CD (Mac and PC) for free private and restricted commercial use.
Graphic Design and Typography