A year without winter
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"A Year Without a Winter" brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration. Inspired by the literary ‘dare’ that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection(...)
A year without winter
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"A Year Without a Winter" brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration. Inspired by the literary ‘dare’ that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection reframes the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. This book is a collective thought experiment retracing an inverted path through narrative extremes.
Environment and environmental theory
Esopus 11 boom!
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Esopus is a twice-yearly arts magazine featuring fresh, unmediated perspectives on contemporary culture from a wide range of creative professionals. It includes artists’ projects, critical writing, fiction, poetry, visual essays, interviews, and, in each issue, a themed CD of new music. Published by the non-profit Esopus Foundation Ltd., the magazine has a simple(...)
Esopus 11 boom!
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Esopus is a twice-yearly arts magazine featuring fresh, unmediated perspectives on contemporary culture from a wide range of creative professionals. It includes artists’ projects, critical writing, fiction, poetry, visual essays, interviews, and, in each issue, a themed CD of new music. Published by the non-profit Esopus Foundation Ltd., the magazine has a simple mission: to provide an unfiltered, non-commercial space in which creative people and the public can connect in meaningful, productive ways.
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging(...)
Temporal territories: An anthology on indigenous experimental cinema
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging from science fiction to found-footage filmmaking to the strange case of the DeMille Indians, the volume surveys a varied and vital body of work, and suggests new forms still to come.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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This book collects writer-photographer Nicholas Muellner’s textual and visual essays created between 2009 and 2019. Intertwining memoir, reportage, fiction and theory, he asks: what is existentially at stake today in the making and viewing of photographs? In a time when nearly everyone has become a photographer, Muellner explores how images have become a means through(...)
Lacuna Park: Essays and other adventures in photography by Nicholas Muellner
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This book collects writer-photographer Nicholas Muellner’s textual and visual essays created between 2009 and 2019. Intertwining memoir, reportage, fiction and theory, he asks: what is existentially at stake today in the making and viewing of photographs? In a time when nearly everyone has become a photographer, Muellner explores how images have become a means through which we control and care and lose and desire, and most of all, adapt and compensate, forget, remember, and keep going.
Theory of Photography
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation(...)
January 2010
Space-age aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation informed by Cold War politics and acted out in an expansive variety of media, from the picture press to comic books.
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From its origins in the mail art movement through to its “destruction” of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements(...)
Glamour is theft: a user's guide to General Idea
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From its origins in the mail art movement through to its “destruction” of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements that were dispersed and disguised within General Idea’s work and writing as a whole, including the publication FILE Magazine.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to(...)
Jeff Wall: works from Munich collections
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to allow his works to be experienced in light of the recognition of photography as an art form.
Photography monographs
Architecture et cinéma
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Parce que le cinéma comme l’architecture participent à une expérience esthétique collective, l’école nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais revient sur quelques-unes des correspondances qui peuvent rapprocher ces deux arts. Films de la Nouvelle Vague, cinéma asiatique, films d’avant-garde et expérimentaux, fictions hollywoodiennes et de science-fiction,(...)
October 2015
Architecture et cinéma
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Parce que le cinéma comme l’architecture participent à une expérience esthétique collective, l’école nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais revient sur quelques-unes des correspondances qui peuvent rapprocher ces deux arts. Films de la Nouvelle Vague, cinéma asiatique, films d’avant-garde et expérimentaux, fictions hollywoodiennes et de science-fiction, documentaires : autant d’œuvres cinématographiques que l’on interrogera pour leurs visions de métropoles génériques, leurs capacités d’observation de la vie quotidienne, leurs critiques du réel, leurs dimensions fictionnelles et oniriques.
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias, edited and authored by Francisco Ferreira, presents a critical and visual approach to George Lucas’s 1971 film THX 1138. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense(...)
Space Fictions: Booklets on architecture and cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias, edited and authored by Francisco Ferreira, presents a critical and visual approach to George Lucas’s 1971 film THX 1138. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (THX 1138. George Lucas, 1971)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense that both disciplines recognise themselves as artificial devices that make it possible to reach and manipulate the senses of space.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1981.
Lutyens : The Metaphoric Castle / [presented by] Peter Inskip.
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1981.