Back cover 5, 2012/2013
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Back Cover is a publication focusing on thinking and analyzing graphic design and typographic practices, and further, the visual arts in general. Through historical and critical analysis, individual and collective experiments and speculative thinking, it offers an in-depth look at the field today. With interviews, theoretical texts and other contributions from graphic(...)
Back cover 5, 2012/2013
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Back Cover is a publication focusing on thinking and analyzing graphic design and typographic practices, and further, the visual arts in general. Through historical and critical analysis, individual and collective experiments and speculative thinking, it offers an in-depth look at the field today. With interviews, theoretical texts and other contributions from graphic designers, typographers, artists and art critics, among them Philippe Millot, Conny Purtill, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Norman Potter, Happypets, Paul Renner, Richard Hollis and Victor Guégan.
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Recent histories
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By highlighting specific creative approaches and studying the sites and collective platforms that enable these practices, this book examines the critical mass that has gathered across generations of African image-makers and lens-based artists. In accentuating different perspectives within this generation and considering the infrastructures that often link them, Recent(...)
Recent histories
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By highlighting specific creative approaches and studying the sites and collective platforms that enable these practices, this book examines the critical mass that has gathered across generations of African image-makers and lens-based artists. In accentuating different perspectives within this generation and considering the infrastructures that often link them, Recent Histories provides a point of entry to engage critically with current practices, and opens up considerations about how to conceptualize the frameworks of contemporary African photography and video art. Recent Histories features the work of Edson Chagas, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Andrew Esiebo, Em’kal Eyongakpa, François- Xavier Gbré, Simon Gush, Délio Jasse, Lebohang Kganye, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mame-Diarra Niang, Dawit L. Petros, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Thabiso Sekgala and Michael Tsegaye.
Photography Collections
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Is this a book or a magazine? Neither, but a project based on the premise that everything is a project: an object, a work of art, a building or even a part of nature, the preparing of a special dish, organising a trip, taking a photograph or writing a short story. Taking the best of book and magazine, Inventario 01 is the first in a series of independent books.
Inventario 01: everything is a project
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Is this a book or a magazine? Neither, but a project based on the premise that everything is a project: an object, a work of art, a building or even a part of nature, the preparing of a special dish, organising a trip, taking a photograph or writing a short story. Taking the best of book and magazine, Inventario 01 is the first in a series of independent books.
Magazines
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The biannual publication from de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, F.R. DAVID focuses on the status of (reading and) writing in contemporary art practice. Includes contributions by Adam Chodzko, H.G. Widdowson, Marjorie Perloff, Kirschner & Panos, Lydia Davis and Dan Lepard, among others.
F.R. David 9 Spring 2012: this is not new of course
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The biannual publication from de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, F.R. DAVID focuses on the status of (reading and) writing in contemporary art practice. Includes contributions by Adam Chodzko, H.G. Widdowson, Marjorie Perloff, Kirschner & Panos, Lydia Davis and Dan Lepard, among others.
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Buildings and cities grow, are transformed and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial materials produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space and how do users and programs animate matter? Because(...)
Verb : Natures -architecture boogazine
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Buildings and cities grow, are transformed and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial materials produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space and how do users and programs animate matter? Because everything grows, especially cities, the fifth volume of Actarís Verb series looks for a new definition of the organic through architecture, graphics, and photography as well as visual and digital art. Verb Natures follows Verb 1, Verb Matters, Verb Connection and Verb Conditioning.
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Shigeru Ban Architects
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This illustrated monograph delves into the innovative output of one of the world's most prolific international design and architecture practitioners, Tokyo-based Shigeru Ban. This book features an array of innovative projects, from commercial and residential innovation strategies to humanitarian works, such as emergency shelters made from paper and modular shelters for(...)
Shigeru Ban Architects
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This illustrated monograph delves into the innovative output of one of the world's most prolific international design and architecture practitioners, Tokyo-based Shigeru Ban. This book features an array of innovative projects, from commercial and residential innovation strategies to humanitarian works, such as emergency shelters made from paper and modular shelters for earthquake victims. Shigeru Ban's visionary residential design philosophies encompass timber hybrid structures, including a building constructed from cardboard tubes; the tallest hybrid timber structure in the world for a residential tower in Vancouver; as well as the new home designed for the Aspen Art Museum, which features woven wooden cladding. This book includes plans, illustrations, sketches, diagrams, and photography throughout.
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Maison Sonia Delaunay
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This volume presents sketches and textile designs by the great Russian French modernist artist Sonia Delaunay alongside her paintings and interior and fashion designs. It demonstrates how she transferred her color philosophy of 'Simultanism,' which she developed in her painting, to the mediums and surfaces of modern life. ''Maison Sonia Delaunay'' also explores the(...)
Maison Sonia Delaunay
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This volume presents sketches and textile designs by the great Russian French modernist artist Sonia Delaunay alongside her paintings and interior and fashion designs. It demonstrates how she transferred her color philosophy of 'Simultanism,' which she developed in her painting, to the mediums and surfaces of modern life. ''Maison Sonia Delaunay'' also explores the international textile companies with whom she collaborated, and shows how she explored the relationship between art and industry, and the ways in which she used her many abilities to design a visionary modern life. The book includes the first scholarly essays on Delaunay's collaborations with silk industrialist Robert Perrier and couturier Jacques Heim, who were among her most important collaborators.
Design Monographs
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More than 30 recently completed works by Tadao Ando are featured in this volume, a highly diverse selection that reflects the staying power of this master architect. Among these are the Clark Art Institute, Asia Museum of Modern Art in Taiwan, Shanghai Poly Theater, 21st Century Christ Church in Tokyo, Guozijian Hotel and Museum in Beijing, South Korea’s Museum SAN, RGS(...)
GA Architect Tadao Ando 2008-2015 Vol. 5
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More than 30 recently completed works by Tadao Ando are featured in this volume, a highly diverse selection that reflects the staying power of this master architect. Among these are the Clark Art Institute, Asia Museum of Modern Art in Taiwan, Shanghai Poly Theater, 21st Century Christ Church in Tokyo, Guozijian Hotel and Museum in Beijing, South Korea’s Museum SAN, RGS Center at the University of Monterrey, and numerous residences from around the globe, including locations in Malibu, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Osaka, Manhattan, and France. With critical essays by the architect and Francesco Dal Co, it is an overview of Ando’s recent oeuvre that is not to be missed.
Architecture Monographs
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Richly illustrated with meditative photography of traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, this book is concerned with articulating boundaries, and space. Historic and modern Japanese techniques for defining space are profiled, from home design through natural landscaping to the ceremonial spaces of tearoom and temple. An elegant study of Japanese architectural(...)
Kyokai : a Japanese technique for articulating space
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Richly illustrated with meditative photography of traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, this book is concerned with articulating boundaries, and space. Historic and modern Japanese techniques for defining space are profiled, from home design through natural landscaping to the ceremonial spaces of tearoom and temple. An elegant study of Japanese architectural art, with its emphasis on nature and fluidity, the book includes contributions by Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, and Junya Ishigami. Photographs by Kiyoshi Takai.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of(...)
Jean Baudrillard: fatal theories
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Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and perceptive commentators, this book assesses his legacy for the twenty-first century. It includes two essays by Baudrillard: a previously unpublished work entitled ‘The vanishing point of communication,’ and one of Baudrillard’s final texts, ‘On disappearance’, a veritable tour de force that serves as a culmination of his theoretical trajectory and a provocation to a new generation of thinkers. Employing Baudrillard’s key concepts, such as simulation, disappearance, and symbolic exchange, and deploying his most radical strategies, such as escalation, seduction, and fatality, the volume’s contributors offer a series of thought-provoking analyses of everything from art to politics, and from laughter to terror.