Claude-Philippe Benoit
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Claude-Philippe Benoit, qui donne à la ville et aux relations de pouvoir une place de premier plan dans son oeuvre, est réputé pour mettre en images un univers complexe et contrasté dans une riche palette de noir et blanc. Dans les années 80, l’artiste se fait connaître grâce à son impressionnante série de photographies sur le cinéma et comme cofondateur de deux(...)
Claude-Philippe Benoit
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Claude-Philippe Benoit, qui donne à la ville et aux relations de pouvoir une place de premier plan dans son oeuvre, est réputé pour mettre en images un univers complexe et contrasté dans une riche palette de noir et blanc. Dans les années 80, l’artiste se fait connaître grâce à son impressionnante série de photographies sur le cinéma et comme cofondateur de deux importants centres d’artistes de Gatineau. Une décennie plus tard, il entreprend une vaste exploration de hauts lieux de décision. Sa quête l’amène entre autres au siège de l’ONU, où il expose au regard les salles où se joue le sort du monde. Textes de Martha Langford et James D. Campbell, Sylvain Campeau et Zoë Tousignant.
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Where pictures stop being photography and become images. Olivo Barbieri has been working to represent space, especially urban space, since the 1970s. Various series of images document his research in this book. They include Viaggio in Italia, from the 1980s, a project directed by Luigi Ghirri; China (Far East), which looks at the big changes on the Asian continent; and(...)
Olivo Barbieri. Images 1978-2014
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Where pictures stop being photography and become images. Olivo Barbieri has been working to represent space, especially urban space, since the 1970s. Various series of images document his research in this book. They include Viaggio in Italia, from the 1980s, a project directed by Luigi Ghirri; China (Far East), which looks at the big changes on the Asian continent; and Site Specific, a sequence of shots taken from a helicopter flying above the world’s major cities, which made him internationally renowned. The book retraces Barbieri’s themes and exploration, underscoring his constant attention to the idea of perception and his ability to envision and interpret reality. He casts quite some doubt over the conventional modes of representation through photography.
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Roman Signer: vernissage
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Roman Signer: Vernissage" celebrates the seventieth birthday of this extraordinary artist through an exploration of the cards used to promote Signer's exhibitions.This vibrantly illustrated volume features a selection of cards and advertisements for 150 Roman Signer exhibitions since 1973. Each card reflects the artistic sensibilities of its era, and together the cards(...)
Roman Signer: vernissage
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Roman Signer: Vernissage" celebrates the seventieth birthday of this extraordinary artist through an exploration of the cards used to promote Signer's exhibitions.This vibrantly illustrated volume features a selection of cards and advertisements for 150 Roman Signer exhibitions since 1973. Each card reflects the artistic sensibilities of its era, and together the cards form a miniature historical narrative of contemporary art. Also included in "Roman Signer: Vernissage" are photographs, Signer's sketches for potential projects, and film stills from past projects. Essayist Roland Waspe expands upon the visual narrative with his examination of the development of and dominant subject topics in Signer's work, and how the invitation cards and materials reflect his aesthetic ideals.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Coincides with four solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Berlin. Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem ''The Gray Room,'' Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular(...)
Alec Soth: I know how furiously your heart is beating
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Coincides with four solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Berlin. Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem ''The Gray Room,'' Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Soth's portraits and images of his subject's surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer.
Photography monographs
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This publication unfolds along the lines of Bridget Riley's (born 1931) 2018 exhibition at David Zwirner, London. Beginning with an exploration of black-and-white equilateral triangles, Riley leads the viewer into an awareness of the ways in which a surface- wall or canvas- can affect a seemingly simple form: the triangle. While demonstrating these subtle changes, she(...)
Bridget Riley: recent paintings 2014–2017
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This publication unfolds along the lines of Bridget Riley's (born 1931) 2018 exhibition at David Zwirner, London. Beginning with an exploration of black-and-white equilateral triangles, Riley leads the viewer into an awareness of the ways in which a surface- wall or canvas- can affect a seemingly simple form: the triangle. While demonstrating these subtle changes, she manipulates this form by bending its sides. Riley is revisiting and developing works which she initiated over 50 years ago, as is shown here by the inclusion of ''Black to White Discs'' (1962/1965). This diamond formation of discs, which graduates in tone from white to black and back again, offers a lead-in to her new body of work.
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Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror
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This mid-career retrospective volume focuses on Viviane Sassen's fine art photography, revealing a surrealist undercurrent in her work. Sassen recognizes Surrealism as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies, and otherworldly landscapes she captures in her work. In addition to images from the acclaimed series "Umbra," this(...)
Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror
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This mid-career retrospective volume focuses on Viviane Sassen's fine art photography, revealing a surrealist undercurrent in her work. Sassen recognizes Surrealism as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies, and otherworldly landscapes she captures in her work. In addition to images from the acclaimed series "Umbra," this volume draws from the series "Flamboya," in which she returned to Kenya, "Parasomnia," a dreamlike exploration of sleep, the "Roxane" series, a mutual portrait created with her muse, Roxane Danset, "Of Lotus and Mud," a study of procreation and fecundity, and "Pikin Slee," a journey to a remote village in Suriname. This book features a contextualizing essay and an insightful interview with the artist.
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of(...)
Genius Loci: An essay on the meanings of place
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux, and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico, and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.
Landscape Theory
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Bridging the domains of urban design, infrastructure, landscape, and architecture, AGPS architecture approaches problem solving as a collaborative enterprise, exploring the relationship between idea and practice and emphasizing the importance of the functional, technical, economic, environmental, and aesthetic in design and construction methods. This publication is(...)
Another take: 17 short stories on architecture
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Bridging the domains of urban design, infrastructure, landscape, and architecture, AGPS architecture approaches problem solving as a collaborative enterprise, exploring the relationship between idea and practice and emphasizing the importance of the functional, technical, economic, environmental, and aesthetic in design and construction methods. This publication is the first comprehensive survey of the projects imagined and completed by AGPS architecture. Complete with color photographs of each of the projects, floor plans, sections, and elevations, as well as several essays that delve into frequently overlooked aspects of architectural design, this volume serves as both a portfolio and a sort of exploration of latent, but recognizable traits that are as much a part of the buildings as their physical manifestation.
Architecture Monographs
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On Line explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of the medium to a critical examination. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the catalog presents a discursive history of mark-making through nearly 250(...)
Art Periods and Styles
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On line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century
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On Line explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of the medium to a critical examination. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the catalog presents a discursive history of mark-making through nearly 250 works by 100 artists, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Calder, Karel Malich, Eva Hesse, Anna Maria Maiolino, Richard Tuttle, Mona Hatoum and Monika Grzymala among many others. Essays by the curators illuminate individual practices and offer focused examinations of broader themes, such as the exploration of line by the avant-garde, and the relationship between drawing and dance.
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Paris noir
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En douze nouvelles, Paris Noir est une exploration urbaine du côté sombre de la Ville lumière, mettant en scène serveurs, flics, prostituées, malfrats, stars en devenir... Des Halles à Oberkampf, de Belleville aux Batignolles, en passant par le Quartier latin et la place des Vosges : un tableau haut en couleurs, tourmenté et engagé, qui n'a rien d'une carte postale. (...)
Paris noir
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En douze nouvelles, Paris Noir est une exploration urbaine du côté sombre de la Ville lumière, mettant en scène serveurs, flics, prostituées, malfrats, stars en devenir... Des Halles à Oberkampf, de Belleville aux Batignolles, en passant par le Quartier latin et la place des Vosges : un tableau haut en couleurs, tourmenté et engagé, qui n'a rien d'une carte postale. « Paris Noir a été conçu comme une auberge espagnole. L'envie était de mélanger les genres, de faire se côtoyer des pointures du roman noir avec des auteurs plus classiques, que l'on a davantage l'habitude de retrouver dans les collections de littérature dite " blanche ". De faire cohabiter dans un même livre des raconteurs d'histoire et des ciseleurs de mots. » Aurélien Masson
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