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xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2017., ©2017
Whose tradition? : discourses on the built environment / edited by Nezar Alsayyad, Mark Gillem, David Moffat.
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xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2017., ©2017
The absence of Mark Manders
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Essay by Laura Hoptman. Foreword by Loretta Yarlow. Interview by Marije Langelaar. At once a personal narrative and an encyclopedic collection of material, Dutch artist Mark Manders' "Self-Portrait" began its life as a building in 1986. Since then, Manders has exhibited fragments of the project, an array of created and found objects, furniture, sculpture, and drawings,(...)
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February 2008, Bergen/Hannover/Ghent
The absence of Mark Manders
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Essay by Laura Hoptman. Foreword by Loretta Yarlow. Interview by Marije Langelaar. At once a personal narrative and an encyclopedic collection of material, Dutch artist Mark Manders' "Self-Portrait" began its life as a building in 1986. Since then, Manders has exhibited fragments of the project, an array of created and found objects, furniture, sculpture, and drawings, keeping it in constant flux, changing with each manifestation.
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Douze (éd. français-russe)
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Douze poèmes liés entre eux par la continuité narrative relatent l'avancée de douze soldats dans une tempête de neige. Rédigée en janvier 1918, cette oeuvre a pour thème central l'âme de la révolution et sera revendiquée comme étendard par les bolcheviques. Son rythme novateur crée le vers tonique libre russe, l'effacement de la distinction entre la cadence du vers et(...)
Douze (éd. français-russe)
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Douze poèmes liés entre eux par la continuité narrative relatent l'avancée de douze soldats dans une tempête de neige. Rédigée en janvier 1918, cette oeuvre a pour thème central l'âme de la révolution et sera revendiquée comme étendard par les bolcheviques. Son rythme novateur crée le vers tonique libre russe, l'effacement de la distinction entre la cadence du vers et celle de la langue parlée.
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Mårten Lange: the mechanism
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'The Mechanism' is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society. The author attempts to trace the effects of technological developments on human experiences, using architectural tropes to build(...)
Mårten Lange: the mechanism
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'The Mechanism' is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society. The author attempts to trace the effects of technological developments on human experiences, using architectural tropes to build a narrative loaded with the threats and promises of the future.
Photography monographs
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This compendium of images by photographer Guillaume Simoneau is unhinged from the moorings of conventional narrative readings. They speak of travel, pilgrimage, epiphany and discovery with a simple, selfless stoicism. Time of day, experiments out on the water, scientific equipment, all suggest an itinerary at once mysterious and immanent, pungent and rich. A fragmented(...)
Guillaume Simoneau: Experimental lake
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This compendium of images by photographer Guillaume Simoneau is unhinged from the moorings of conventional narrative readings. They speak of travel, pilgrimage, epiphany and discovery with a simple, selfless stoicism. Time of day, experiments out on the water, scientific equipment, all suggest an itinerary at once mysterious and immanent, pungent and rich. A fragmented litany of objectivities forms a cohesive chain of elliptical meanings.
Photography monographs
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Bridges have been fascinating casual viewers and experts alike for thousands of years. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Bridges brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place among the visionaries of(...)
Master Builder Bridges: build your own models of the word's most famous structures
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Bridges have been fascinating casual viewers and experts alike for thousands of years. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Bridges brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place among the visionaries of architecture with your own feats of bridge construction.
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'Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture' explores twelve figures from the history of British architecture, including Sir John Soane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Cedric Price and Zaha Hadid who have defied convention over the past 250 years. This book offers a fresh take on their work, establishing new and sometimes surprising historical connections, while(...)
Mavericks: breaking the mould of British Architecture
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'Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture' explores twelve figures from the history of British architecture, including Sir John Soane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Cedric Price and Zaha Hadid who have defied convention over the past 250 years. This book offers a fresh take on their work, establishing new and sometimes surprising historical connections, while posing an intriguing alternative narrative to the history of British Architecture.
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Photography and anthropology
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In this publication, Christopher Pinney presents an account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Through numerous examples from the annals of anthropological photography, this book examines the history of anthropology’s(...)
Photography and anthropology
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In this publication, Christopher Pinney presents an account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Through numerous examples from the annals of anthropological photography, this book examines the history of anthropology’s enchantment with photography alongside the anthropological theory of photography and documentation.
Theory of Photography
John Baldessari: parse
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For this publication, Baldessari has designed a sequence of enigmatically fragmentary and geometrically emphatic images, arranged rhythmically across the volume´s landscape format, that slowly accrete narrative as the reader-viewer moves through the book. These fragments, derived largely from B-movie stills, lead into a second chapter that reproduces the complete(...)
John Baldessari: parse
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For this publication, Baldessari has designed a sequence of enigmatically fragmentary and geometrically emphatic images, arranged rhythmically across the volume´s landscape format, that slowly accrete narrative as the reader-viewer moves through the book. These fragments, derived largely from B-movie stills, lead into a second chapter that reproduces the complete pictures. Parse juggles with the themes of composition, information, omission and rhythm.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
Inigio Manglano-Ovalle: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
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