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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
Critical Theory
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Aisha Sasha John's "Thou" is a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" -- what it is and what it means to say "you," the stories we make of our own multiple "yous," and by extension, the "you" an(...)
Thou
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Aisha Sasha John's "Thou" is a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" -- what it is and what it means to say "you," the stories we make of our own multiple "yous," and by extension, the "you" an author can make of her own book.
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The archive of Dark
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"The Archive of Dark" is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two separate yet coherent exhibitions; "Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness", 2017 and "Renaissance of the Night", 2018. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of(...)
The archive of Dark
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"The Archive of Dark" is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two separate yet coherent exhibitions; "Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness", 2017 and "Renaissance of the Night", 2018. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of letters from a variety of contributors that include perceptual, intellectual, spiritual, scientific and artistic reflections.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas(...)
Christian Patterson: reheaded peckerwood
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Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way.
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Le musée de l’Innocence, qu’Orhan Pamuk a créé à Istanbul, est un projet culturel singulier, mûri pendant des décennies par son créateur, qui cherche à y saisir la ville de sa jeunesse par les objets du quotidien : l’éphémère, le bric-à-brac, le désordre qui caractérisent la vie de chacun. Ces objets particuliers sont intimement liés au Musée de l’Innocence, le roman de(...)
Orhan Pamuk : l'innocence des objets
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Le musée de l’Innocence, qu’Orhan Pamuk a créé à Istanbul, est un projet culturel singulier, mûri pendant des décennies par son créateur, qui cherche à y saisir la ville de sa jeunesse par les objets du quotidien : l’éphémère, le bric-à-brac, le désordre qui caractérisent la vie de chacun. Ces objets particuliers sont intimement liés au Musée de l’Innocence, le roman de l’amour perdu de Pamuk, qui prête sa structure narrative à leur présentation.
Art Theory
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The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed, drawn, or otherwise constructed(...)
Architectural Plans and Cartography
October 2014
A history of the twentieth century in 100 maps
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The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed, drawn, or otherwise constructed during the twentieth century and recount through them a narrative of the century’s key events and developments.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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Secondhand Reading began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made by William Kentridge (born 1955) in 2013, on the pages of old books. Conceived as a kind of secondhand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, it is both a narrative--it begins at the beginning and will eventually get to the end--and an acknowledgment of the(...)
William Kentridge: Secondhand Reading
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Secondhand Reading began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made by William Kentridge (born 1955) in 2013, on the pages of old books. Conceived as a kind of secondhand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, it is both a narrative--it begins at the beginning and will eventually get to the end--and an acknowledgment of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
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xxii, 288 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
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Energy accounts : architectural representations of energy, climate, and the future / edited by Dan Willis, William W. Braham, Katsuhiko Muramoto, Daniel A. Barber ; preface Michael Mann.
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xxii, 288 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017., ©2017
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xiii, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 26 x 28 cm
Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, ©2013.
Overdrive : L.A. constructs the future, 1940-1990 / edited by Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander.
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xiii, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 26 x 28 cm
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Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, ©2013.