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"Art and its institutions" is a reader on current institutional conditions and the role of institutions within artistic processes. With essays by authors and academics such as Beatrice von Bismarck, Andrea Fraser, Simon Sheikh and Jan Verwoert, this book examines the interests of the various institutions involved in the creation of art, and explore the impact these(...)
Art and its institutions : current conflicts, critique and collaborations
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"Art and its institutions" is a reader on current institutional conditions and the role of institutions within artistic processes. With essays by authors and academics such as Beatrice von Bismarck, Andrea Fraser, Simon Sheikh and Jan Verwoert, this book examines the interests of the various institutions involved in the creation of art, and explore the impact these institutions have on the contemporary art world. It covers topics including the impact of the decline of the welfare state on art institutions; the social and physical architecture of art institutions in Nordic states and Eastern Europe; a critical re-evaluation of the institutional critique of the 70s and 90s and the introduction of new models of critique in current artistic practice. The book also documents and discusses two exhibition projects, and examine their relationship to the conflicts and desires provoked by institutions.
Museology
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The architecture practice's fascination with machine-tool fabrication began academically but resonates in all building projects within the practice. This book shows how the work favours a material architecture, guided by a conviction that architectural ideas and materials are inextricably intertwined.
Barkow and Leibinger: an atlas of fabrication
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The architecture practice's fascination with machine-tool fabrication began academically but resonates in all building projects within the practice. This book shows how the work favours a material architecture, guided by a conviction that architectural ideas and materials are inextricably intertwined.
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10 volumes : illustrations, plans, plates, portraits ; 46 cm
Paris : Ch. Gavard, 1838-[1849]
Versailles, galeries historiques dédiées à S.M. La Reine des Français.
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In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, images and technology. This sheer number and mobility of contemporary migrants clearly has massively disruptive effects on traditional modes of dwelling however they were manifest in everyday life. But contemporary migrancy(...)
Drifting : architecture and migrancy
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In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, images and technology. This sheer number and mobility of contemporary migrants clearly has massively disruptive effects on traditional modes of dwelling however they were manifest in everyday life. But contemporary migrancy also has important consequences for the way dwelling is conceptualised more generally. This book is concerned with the modes of dwelling that emerge through migrancy; it is also concerned with the effects these modes of dwelling have for dominant conceptions of space and place; and finally, it is interested in the kinds of architectures that become possible if those effects are taken seriously. This book inspects the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It does so without seeking to defend the idea of place, nor lament its passing. Rather, this book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place. This exploration is informed by post-structuralist analyses of architecture and urbanism, and their representation in media such as film. It focuses on the Pacific Rim as an intensified zone of global flows. Within the Pacific Rim there are complex tensions between the new economies of Asia and the settler nations of Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. These tensions produce difficulties for the narrative of the nation state, and herald conditions that no longer conform to the geo-political norms of the old world.
Architectural Theory
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated(...)
Comics and the city: urban space in print, picture and sequence
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Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc.) are all incorporated into comics. On the other hand, comics have unique abilities to capture urban space and city life because of their hybrid nature, consisting of words, pictures, and sequences. These formal aspects of comics are also to be found within the cityscape itself: one can see the influence of comic book aesthetics all around us today.
Urban Theory
Time and photography
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Photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: snapshots are slices of time, time can be directly represented within the image, time can be photographys theme and philosophical horizon, photographic practices develop and change across time. This book brings together the various aspect of time in photography(...)
Time and photography
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Photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: snapshots are slices of time, time can be directly represented within the image, time can be photographys theme and philosophical horizon, photographic practices develop and change across time. This book brings together the various aspect of time in photography and of photography in time. Its chapters focus on seminal authors (including Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, and Robert Morris) and genres, with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent uses of photography in and outside art. Given the multifaceted dimensions of the notion of time, the book fosters an interdisciplinary approach, gathering essays by historians of photography as well as by authors with a critical or philosophical background. It shows how some interpretations of photography are indebted to fields that have a great expertise in analyzing time, such as narratology and literature.
Theory of Photography
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"Women's places : architecture and design 1860-1960" presents a series of case-study essays, all of them based on research which has been unpublished up until now, dealing with the relationship between particular women, buildings and design in the time period. This collection shows a range of actual relationships between women and material culture in a given(...)
Gender Theory in Architecture
October 2003, London / New York
Women's places : architecture and design 1860-1960
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"Women's places : architecture and design 1860-1960" presents a series of case-study essays, all of them based on research which has been unpublished up until now, dealing with the relationship between particular women, buildings and design in the time period. This collection shows a range of actual relationships between women and material culture in a given historical period, from those who engaged with the avant-garde of their day, to others who were more conservative and worked within prevailing traditions and conventions; their differing strategies and the ways in which the picture changed over a period of time in response to shifts in the contemporary aesthetic, economic, social and cultural climate of gender, architecture and design. The team of authors are noted within the discipline for their original and pioneering research in the field of gender, architecture, material culture and the built environment.
Gender Theory in Architecture
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Smart design can make solar, wind, and geothermal energy beautiful, affordable, and accessible to all. Thirty-five projects from around the world demonstrate that clean, healthy energy is within reach in every sector and field, from townhouses to schools and offices, and even power plants. Harmonizing nature, technology, and space, each project in "Good energy" shows how(...)
Good energy: renewable power and the design of everyday life
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Smart design can make solar, wind, and geothermal energy beautiful, affordable, and accessible to all. Thirty-five projects from around the world demonstrate that clean, healthy energy is within reach in every sector and field, from townhouses to schools and offices, and even power plants. Harmonizing nature, technology, and space, each project in "Good energy" shows how design can improve planetary well-being while producing cost savings and creating green jobs. A visual and informative guide to renewal energy: "Good energy" includes over 200 colour photographs showing each project in detail, accompanied by informative essays. The book includes a foreword by artist and landscape designer Walter Hood, founder of Hood Design Studio, and an interview with Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering and a cofounder of the Solutions Project.
Environment and environmental theory
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Today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists crafters and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media. culture and the D.I.Y. ethos. For this book the authors have selected 24 makers and 5 essayists who work within different(...)
Crafts and Jewelry
November 2008, New-York
Handmade nation, the raise of diy, art, craft, and design
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Today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists crafters and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media. culture and the D.I.Y. ethos. For this book the authors have selected 24 makers and 5 essayists who work within different media and have different methodologies to provide a microcosm of the crafting community. Twenty-four artists from Olympia Washington to Providence Rhode Island and everywhere in between show their work and discuss their lives. Texts by Andrew Wagner of American Craft Magazine Garth Johnson of Extremecraft.com Callie Janoff of the Church of Craft Betsy Greer of Craftivism.com and Susan Beal author of Super Crafty supply a critical view of the tight-knit community where ethics can overlapwith creativity and art with community.
Crafts and Jewelry
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Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a(...)
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SakKijâjuk : Art and craft From Nunatsiavut
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Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work. Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and ceramics, while also working with traditional materials in new and unexpected ways. ''SakKijâjuk: Art and craft from Nunatsiavut'' is the first major publication on the art of the Labrador Inuit. Designed to accompany a major touring exhibition organized by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of St. John's, the book will feature more than 80 reproductions of work by 45 different artists, profiles of the featured artists, and a major essay on the art of Nunatsiavut by Heather Igloliorte.