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La spirale, cette forme primitive, a été réinventée par les artistes du XXe siècle : Calder fait tourner le nombril de Joséphine Baker, les étagères de Ron Arad s'enroulent comme des vers de terre, Tony Cragg déploie une ville-escargot. Un escalier en colimaçon, photographié par Germaine Krull, ressemble à un coquillage... La spirale en mouvement crée des illusions(...)
Spirales, ressorts et tourbillons : un parcours en zigzags dans les collections du Centre Pompidou / Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industriel
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La spirale, cette forme primitive, a été réinventée par les artistes du XXe siècle : Calder fait tourner le nombril de Joséphine Baker, les étagères de Ron Arad s'enroulent comme des vers de terre, Tony Cragg déploie une ville-escargot. Un escalier en colimaçon, photographié par Germaine Krull, ressemble à un coquillage... La spirale en mouvement crée des illusions d'optique : des Rotoreliefs de Duchamp aux tourbillons des vidéos de Nam June Paik. En suivant un fil conducteur, une couleur, une matière, une forme, l'enfant tisse des liens entre des œuvres très différentes : peintures, sculptures, photos, objets de design...
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La ville et la nature
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On oppose souvent ville et nature. Pourtant, même en ville, la nature est partout autour de nous ; à travers certains aménagements publics, mais aussi à travers les éléments naturels : les fleuves, le climat, les arbres, les animaux... La nature n'a pas disparu de la ville. Elle y a été domestiquée pour s'adapter aux besoins des hommes. Où se trouve la nature en ville ?(...)
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September 2005, Paris
La ville et la nature
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On oppose souvent ville et nature. Pourtant, même en ville, la nature est partout autour de nous ; à travers certains aménagements publics, mais aussi à travers les éléments naturels : les fleuves, le climat, les arbres, les animaux... La nature n'a pas disparu de la ville. Elle y a été domestiquée pour s'adapter aux besoins des hommes. Où se trouve la nature en ville ? Et comment peuvent-elles continuer à se développer aujourd'hui sans mettre en danger l'environnement naturel ?
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Cet ouvrage permet par une alternance de chapitres courts et longs très détaillés de comprendre l’exode rural qui a repoussé si rapidement les murs de Paris, engendré par la révolution industrielle.
Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle
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Cet ouvrage permet par une alternance de chapitres courts et longs très détaillés de comprendre l’exode rural qui a repoussé si rapidement les murs de Paris, engendré par la révolution industrielle.
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Les villes entres elles
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Une ville n’est pas isolée. Au contraire, elle fait partie d’un réseau multiple constitué des autres villes qui l’entourent ou qui l’influencent. Pour comprendre sa ville, il faut comprendre ce qui la lie aux autres, comprendre le système d’interactions des villes entre elles. Qu’est-ce qui lie les villes les unes aux autres ? Liens commerciaux, touristiques, ou(...)
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September 2005, Paris
Les villes entres elles
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Une ville n’est pas isolée. Au contraire, elle fait partie d’un réseau multiple constitué des autres villes qui l’entourent ou qui l’influencent. Pour comprendre sa ville, il faut comprendre ce qui la lie aux autres, comprendre le système d’interactions des villes entre elles. Qu’est-ce qui lie les villes les unes aux autres ? Liens commerciaux, touristiques, ou association pour la réalisation d’un projet commun, les villes communiquent de plus en plus. Comment fonctionne cet ensemble nommé «Pays» ou «Intercommunalité» et comment s’organise le regroupement administratif de plusieurs communes ?
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This new series covers a wide variety of science, nature and technology topics in an innovative and interactive way. The books make use of a profusion of engaging line drawings and colorful illustrations along with delightful pullouts, pop-ups, fold-outs, transparency overlays, reveal wheels, books-within-books and more. Each page offers a surprise for young, curious(...)
Explore your world : construction
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This new series covers a wide variety of science, nature and technology topics in an innovative and interactive way. The books make use of a profusion of engaging line drawings and colorful illustrations along with delightful pullouts, pop-ups, fold-outs, transparency overlays, reveal wheels, books-within-books and more. Each page offers a surprise for young, curious readers. Lively captions featuring non-technical explanations accompany all the illustrations.
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The graphic alphabet
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Most alphabet books for pre-readers and early readers set out to make the somewhat abstract idea of letters as clear and as clearly linked to words as possible. In The Graphic Alphabet, graphic designer David Pelletier has created an alphabet book that aims to explore letters for their beauty and complexity as design elements as well as help teach kids how to read. His(...)
The graphic alphabet
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Most alphabet books for pre-readers and early readers set out to make the somewhat abstract idea of letters as clear and as clearly linked to words as possible. In The Graphic Alphabet, graphic designer David Pelletier has created an alphabet book that aims to explore letters for their beauty and complexity as design elements as well as help teach kids how to read. His "A," for example, stands for "avalanche," and with its normally pointed top tumbling down the right diagonal, the letter doesn't just stand for the avalanche, it becomes the word. Pelletier is equally ingenious throughout. And while this might not be the best book to make the concept of letters concrete for youngsters, it will certainly help instill in them a sense of wonder about letters and words.
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September 1996, New York
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Thirty years ago, the Vienna artist and architect Heinz Frank published a book entitled "Children's book for architects," a selection of his drawings from the 1970s, in which animals and ghostly creatures "haunt" buildings of various kinds. Frank's works on paper collected here once again shake at the rational foundations of architecture. With humor and imagination, the(...)
Children’s book for architects
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Thirty years ago, the Vienna artist and architect Heinz Frank published a book entitled "Children's book for architects," a selection of his drawings from the 1970s, in which animals and ghostly creatures "haunt" buildings of various kinds. Frank's works on paper collected here once again shake at the rational foundations of architecture. With humor and imagination, the artist draws on the anarchic potential of animals and of children's drawings. "Children's books like this one," writes US-American architecture critic Felicity D. Scott in her contribution to this book, "prompt us to rethink the world, even to see it differently." Eight color-in sheets, included with the book, invite us to "enter into Frank's animal form of refusing architecture."
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"Footnotes from the most fascinating museums" is a collection of the greatest and most beloved museums of North America, illustrated and explored through fun and fascinating anecdotes. Curated by Bob Eckstein, author of the New York Times bestseller "Footnotes from the world's greatest bookstores", this delightful twist on an art history book shows these institutes in a(...)
Footnotes from the most facinating museums
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"Footnotes from the most fascinating museums" is a collection of the greatest and most beloved museums of North America, illustrated and explored through fun and fascinating anecdotes. Curated by Bob Eckstein, author of the New York Times bestseller "Footnotes from the world's greatest bookstores", this delightful twist on an art history book shows these institutes in a way not seen before, illustrated in a lush and idealized style. The 75+ museums featured include the biggest and boldest names (MoMA, the Whitney) and the more offbeat (Museum of Bad Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology). They span the US, Canada, and Mexico and include those specializing in art, natural history, academia and science, and more.
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We go to the park
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The park beckons us to leave our daily routines behind and enter its zone of endless possibility. In the park, the usual rules don’t apply. In the park, what matters most is the moment, and losing track of time to the timelessness of imagination, invention, observation, and chance. In the park, there are risks, of course, but also the deepest rewards, to be found in the(...)
We go to the park
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The park beckons us to leave our daily routines behind and enter its zone of endless possibility. In the park, the usual rules don’t apply. In the park, what matters most is the moment, and losing track of time to the timelessness of imagination, invention, observation, and chance. In the park, there are risks, of course, but also the deepest rewards, to be found in the freedom experienced through play that is both embodied and participatory. It is not the lone "I," but the "we" that goes to the park, where chance encounters might suddenly become moments of deep connection—however fleeting—with others, nature, and ourselves. Originally published in Sweden, this first English–language edition printed in Italy on thick cream paper offers an immersive experience of transformation, longing, and transcendence to readers of all ages, while reminding adult readers in particular of the everyday miracle contained in encountering another consciousness.
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Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family(...)
Ruth Asawa: An artist takes shape
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Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to a concentration camp in Arkansas. Asawa nurtured her dreams of becoming an artist while imprisoned and eventually made her way to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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