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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic(...)
Architecture in play: intimations of modernism in architectural toys
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
Architectural Theory
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In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. He traces the cultural genealogy that spawned Astro Boy to the transformations of Japanese media culture that followed—and forward to the even more profound developments in global capitalism supported by the circulation of characters like Doraemon, Hello(...)
Anime's media mix: franchising toys and characters in Japan
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In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. He traces the cultural genealogy that spawned Astro Boy to the transformations of Japanese media culture that followed—and forward to the even more profound developments in global capitalism supported by the circulation of characters like Doraemon, Hello Kitty, and Suzumiya Haruhi. He details how convergence was sparked by anime, with its astoundingly broad merchandising of images and its franchising across media and commodities. He also explains how the rise of anime cannot be understood properly—historically, economically, and culturally—without grasping the integral role that the media mix played from the start. Engaging with film, animation, and media studies, as well as analyses of consumer culture and theories of capitalism, Steinberg offers a sustained study of the Japanese mode of convergence that informs global media practices to this day.
Epistemology
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Using CGI, Canadian artist Benjamin Freedman presents a captivating image sequence which meticulously reconstructs his childhood memories of a family road trip to Maine in 1999. Blurring the line between reality and simulation, these surreal images toy with the ephemerality of memory and its inseparability from fantasy. Freedman’s recreated scenes of roadside diners,(...)
Benjamin Freedman: Positive illusions
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Using CGI, Canadian artist Benjamin Freedman presents a captivating image sequence which meticulously reconstructs his childhood memories of a family road trip to Maine in 1999. Blurring the line between reality and simulation, these surreal images toy with the ephemerality of memory and its inseparability from fantasy. Freedman’s recreated scenes of roadside diners, pools, and picnics create a visceral and sensory dreamscape, evoking the sounds and smells attached to his childhood recollections. These digitally constructed images explore how technology permits us to revisit and reimagine the past in ways that feel both familiar and uncanny. Distinctions between personal recollection and collective nostalgia are compromised, creating an idiosyncratic visual realm saturated with shared emotions and histories. Freedman’s use of digital tools to recapture nostalgic scenes underscores the fluidity of memory while also challenging traditional conventions of the photographic medium.
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Thomas Demand’s photographic practice - the depiction of meticulously recreated life-size interiors and environments - takes on a new twist with this volume. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is home to the architectural maquettes of architect John Lautner, whose buildings are highlights of Californian architecture. Lautner’s space-age structures - such as the(...)
Thomas Demand : model studies
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Thomas Demand’s photographic practice - the depiction of meticulously recreated life-size interiors and environments - takes on a new twist with this volume. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is home to the architectural maquettes of architect John Lautner, whose buildings are highlights of Californian architecture. Lautner’s space-age structures - such as the legendary “Chemosphere,” a four-bedroom house resembling a flying saucer, mounted atop a 20-foot concrete pillar - are particularly toy-like in their maquette versions, and for this project, Demand photographed 12 of these models in close-up detail. Model Studies includes more than 130 color images of Lautner’s models. With this volume, Demand, who has always been concerned with the intersections of art and architecture, now looks at the architect as sculptor, paying tribute to Lautner on the centenary of the architect’s birth.
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Henri's walk to Paris
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In graphic designer Basss sole picture book, first published in 1962, his stylized collage prints pair with Kleins understated text to tell the story of a boy who dreams about traveling from his small town of Reboul to visit Paris. In Reboul, Henri lives in a little white house made up of two angular geometrical shapes, surrounded by a lush tapestry-like forest, and has(...)
Henri's walk to Paris
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In graphic designer Basss sole picture book, first published in 1962, his stylized collage prints pair with Kleins understated text to tell the story of a boy who dreams about traveling from his small town of Reboul to visit Paris. In Reboul, Henri lives in a little white house made up of two angular geometrical shapes, surrounded by a lush tapestry-like forest, and has three friends, Andre, Jacques, and Michel (they appear as three pairs of legs, fitted with pink pants, decoratively pattered socks, and green boots). Finally, Henri sets out walking to Paris, but when a bird interferes with his sense of direction, he gets turned around, discovering that Paris is an awful lot like Reboul. Bass plays with repetition (theres a strong symmetry to Henris journey), text, and strong blocks of color, while using negative and positive space to toy with perception.
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135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 x 30 cm
London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
Abelardo Morell / Richard B. Woodward.
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London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.
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103 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Mantova, Italy : Corraini Editore, 2013.
Made in slums : Mathare // Nairobi / a cura di = curated [and edited] by Fulvio Irace ; traduzioni di = translations by David Kelly ; fotografie di = photographs by Filippo Romano, Francesco Giusti ; illustrazione di = illustration by Paolo Giacomazzi.
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Mantova, Italy : Corraini Editore, 2013.
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Tout nouveau moyen de transport ou toute modification apportée à un système existant de mobilité urbaine – l’élargissement des tranchées permettant aux voies ferrées de se relier à un terminus ou à une jonction, l’extension des gares de triage desservant les systèmes de transport métropolitains et de banlieue, la multiplication des(...)
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November 2000, Montréal
Villes en mouvement : jouets et transports / Cities in motion : toys and transport
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Tout nouveau moyen de transport ou toute modification apportée à un système existant de mobilité urbaine – l’élargissement des tranchées permettant aux voies ferrées de se relier à un terminus ou à une jonction, l’extension des gares de triage desservant les systèmes de transport métropolitains et de banlieue, la multiplication des bretelles des ponts, des autoroutes surélevées, des rampes d’accès, des parcs de stationnement et même des petites stations-services disséminées sur le territoire – entraîne des mutations dans le paysage urbain. "Jouets et transports" puise, à même la collection du CCA, plus de 75 jouets anciens, livres illustrés, photographies anciennes et brochures pour illustrer deux siècles de transformations urbaines étroitement liées au développement des moyens de transport. // Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even service stations. "Toys and Transport" draws from the CCA collection, presenting over 75 objects, among them historic toys, architectural photographs, illustrated books and pamphlets. It covers nearly 200 years of urban transformation brought about by the development of transportation systems.
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The Slovak artist Jana Želibská’s (b. Olomouc, former Czechoslovakia, 1941; lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia) output ranges from fine art prints, drawings, paintings, objects, and videos to environments, conceptual art, installations, and intermedia art. She first emerged as a major figure on Slovakia’s independent art scene, which embraced conceptual and(...)
Jana Želibská : Discovery of Possibility
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The Slovak artist Jana Želibská’s (b. Olomouc, former Czechoslovakia, 1941; lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia) output ranges from fine art prints, drawings, paintings, objects, and videos to environments, conceptual art, installations, and intermedia art. She first emerged as a major figure on Slovakia’s independent art scene, which embraced conceptual and performative approaches, in the 1960s. Her confidence and progressive convictions speak from her early installations, which candidly address erotic desire and shatter patriarchal structures. The female body stands at the center of Želibská’s immersive environments and paintings. She likes to toy with the audience’s voyeuristic desire, integrating mirrors where one would expect to see female genitalia and veiling parts of the body with curtains. "Jana Želibská—Discovery of Possibility" is the artist’s first solo exhibition outside Slovakia after she made her international debut in the shared pavilion of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The accompanying catalogue is the first publication on her oeuvre in the German-speaking countries and includes contributions by Nathalie Hoyos, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Rainald Schuhmacher, and Alfred Weidinger.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Livret accompagnant la première exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. Texte de Witold Rybczynski et notes de Rosemary Haddad et Brooke Hodge. / Booklet accompanying the first exhibition from the CCA's toys collection. Text by Witold Rybczynski with notes by Rosemary Haddad and Brooke Hodge.
L'architecture en jeux : jeux de construction du CCA / Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA
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Livret accompagnant la première exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. Texte de Witold Rybczynski et notes de Rosemary Haddad et Brooke Hodge. / Booklet accompanying the first exhibition from the CCA's toys collection. Text by Witold Rybczynski with notes by Rosemary Haddad and Brooke Hodge.
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