The polar world
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This publication combines fantasy and reality: giant squids, hybrids, and humanoid figures dance across Shuvinai Ashoona’s sensual vistas, lending a surreal quality to her work. Springing her imagination but rooted in the landscape of her Kinngait home, ''The polar world'' combines Ashoona’s drawings from her 2017 exhibition with a narrative by Andrew Hunter.
January 2017
The polar world
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This publication combines fantasy and reality: giant squids, hybrids, and humanoid figures dance across Shuvinai Ashoona’s sensual vistas, lending a surreal quality to her work. Springing her imagination but rooted in the landscape of her Kinngait home, ''The polar world'' combines Ashoona’s drawings from her 2017 exhibition with a narrative by Andrew Hunter.
Remarkable trees
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'Remarkable Trees' tells the unique story of more than sixty species, each selected for its resonance and connection with people. In portraits that combine vivid cultural and historical narrative with a firm scientific grounding, Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham reveal fascinating details of trees from the world’s major environmental zones and habitats.
Remarkable trees
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'Remarkable Trees' tells the unique story of more than sixty species, each selected for its resonance and connection with people. In portraits that combine vivid cultural and historical narrative with a firm scientific grounding, Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham reveal fascinating details of trees from the world’s major environmental zones and habitats.
Landscape Theory
Jules de Balincourt: Malpais
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The noted Paris-born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt depicts a universe in which abstract and representational images collide, orbit and satellite among each other, creating a kind of loose, free-associating, non-linear narrative, according to the artist himself. This volume collects recent works exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
Jules de Balincourt: Malpais
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The noted Paris-born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt depicts a universe in which abstract and representational images collide, orbit and satellite among each other, creating a kind of loose, free-associating, non-linear narrative, according to the artist himself. This volume collects recent works exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
Contemporary Art Monographs
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
Art Theory
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
May 2009
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
Colour Theory and Design
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Each of these great buildings is fully illustrated in three-dimensional pop-up, while informative and entertaining historical narrative tells the stories behind them. Learn how Notre Dame narrowly escaped being torn during the French Revolution, what makes the Taj Mahal a «love story in stone» and much more, with this unique and unforgettable visual experience.
Children's Books
December 2007, San Diego
Architectural wonders : a pop-up gallery of the world's most amazing marvels
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Each of these great buildings is fully illustrated in three-dimensional pop-up, while informative and entertaining historical narrative tells the stories behind them. Learn how Notre Dame narrowly escaped being torn during the French Revolution, what makes the Taj Mahal a «love story in stone» and much more, with this unique and unforgettable visual experience.
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December 2007, San Diego
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xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1982.
Upstate travels : British views of nineteenth-century New York / edited, with an introduction, by Roger Haydon.
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xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1982.
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City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new(...)
The eternal city: a history of Rome
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City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of readers.
History until 1900, Classicism
Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture,(...)
Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture, poésie et prose narrative, musique, danse, cinéma.
Art Theory