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La machine à café, l'open-space, la disparition des frontières entre vie privée et vie professionnelle, les pots d'entreprise, le harcèlement olfactif, la pratique de la trottinette, les cafés envahis par les MacBook des indépendants... En une cinquantaine de chroniques, Nicolas Santolaria, journaliste au regard affuté, explore l'univers que nous partageons tous, celui du(...)
Le syndrome de la chouquette ou la tyrannie de la vie de bureau
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La machine à café, l'open-space, la disparition des frontières entre vie privée et vie professionnelle, les pots d'entreprise, le harcèlement olfactif, la pratique de la trottinette, les cafés envahis par les MacBook des indépendants... En une cinquantaine de chroniques, Nicolas Santolaria, journaliste au regard affuté, explore l'univers que nous partageons tous, celui du travail tel qu'il se pratique aujourd'hui. Des situations cocasses ou embarrassantes aux « tics » contemporains dans les échanges relationnels, du langage mâtiné d'anglais aux nouvelles théories de management, farfelues ou proprement effrayantes, sans oublier les névroses plus ou moins sérieuses que cela génère, tout passe au crible de la plume alerte de l'auteur. Loin de n'être qu'humoristiques, ces chroniques, dans une démarche proche des mythologies de Barthes, sont également nourries de références, qui permettront au lecteur curieux d'aller plus loin sur certains sujets.
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After the success of the recent touring exhibition "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love", Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent episodes in American race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are(...)
Kara Walker : bureau of refugees
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After the success of the recent touring exhibition "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love", Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent episodes in American race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are reduced and distorted into readily legible, caricatured forms. Walker's art continues, in other words, to pose awkward questions straightforwardly. Her imagery derives from the visual language of the antebellum South and the tradition of the minstrel show, which she directs to more disquieting ends. Where her source material parodied African-American culture with a terrifyingly casual jocularity - permitting white Americans to vicariously transgress their own taboos by depicting social chaos and unbridled sexuality - Walker applies that jocularity to her depictions of violence against African-Americans, lending them a hollow, almost slapstick character that is very much at odds with their original function. This latest book features work from a new series that addresses, among other themes, the atrocities committed against former slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Reconstruction program implemented by Congress between 1866 and 1877. These narratives are elaborated into or against geometric scenarios more abstract and compacted than previous sequences by Walker, and with a more extensive use of color.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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237 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Montréal : Éditions La Presse, 1972.
Expo 67, ou, La découverte de la fierté / Pierre Dupuy.
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Montréal : Éditions La Presse, 1972.
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17, 17 pages ; 36 cm
[Montréal] : The Corporation, 1965.
Portée générale des travaux : spécimen de devis descriptif de la C.C.E.U. (experts-conseils) = General scope of work : C.C.W.E. guide specification (consultants).
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17, 17 pages ; 36 cm
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[Montréal] : The Corporation, 1965.
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Station Langelier.
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1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm
[Montréal] : Bureau de transport métropolitain de la communauté urbaine de Montréal, 1982.
Station Langelier.
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1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm
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[Montréal] : Bureau de transport métropolitain de la communauté urbaine de Montréal, 1982.
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Station Cadillac.
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1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm
[Montréal] : Bureau de transport métropolitain de la communauté urbaine de Montréal, 1982.
Station Cadillac.
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1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm
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[Montréal] : Bureau de transport métropolitain de la communauté urbaine de Montréal, 1982.
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1 sheet ([12] pages) : color illustrations ; 46 x 30 cm folded to 23 x 10 cm
[Montréal] : Compagnie canadienne de l'exposition universelle de 1967, 1963.
Expo 67 : procurez-vous a prix réduit un passeport d'entrée pour la Terre des Hommes = Expo 67 : get your "passport" to visit Man and his World from your nearest Expo 67 Centre.
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1 sheet ([12] pages) : color illustrations ; 46 x 30 cm folded to 23 x 10 cm
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[Montréal] : Compagnie canadienne de l'exposition universelle de 1967, 1963.
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60 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
[Montréal] : Published by and for the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition, ©1963.
Expo 67, normes de signalisation = Standard sign manual, Expo 67.
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60 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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[Montréal] : Published by and for the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition, ©1963.
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16 leaves : map (folded) ; 31 cm
[Phnom-Penh, Cambodia] : Direction Generale, Bureau des Etudes et de la Documentation, 1958.
Étude preliminaire sur un projet de construction de la ligne de chemin de fer Phnom-Penh - Sihanoukville / Régie des Chemins de Fer Royaux du Cambodge.
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16 leaves : map (folded) ; 31 cm
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[Phnom-Penh, Cambodia] : Direction Generale, Bureau des Etudes et de la Documentation, 1958.
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volumes : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 21 cm
Montréal : Éditions de l'homme, ©1965-
Regards sur l'Expo 67 / Raymond Grenier.
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volumes : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 21 cm
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Montréal : Éditions de l'homme, ©1965-