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When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London, he had no idea that he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces. But before long, his blog had attracted other guerrillas from around the world to share their experiences of the(...)
On guerrilla gardening : a handbook for gardening without boundaries
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When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London, he had no idea that he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces. But before long, his blog had attracted other guerrillas from around the world to share their experiences of the horticultural frontline, and is now a focal point for guerrilla gardeners everywhere, with over 4,000 people enlisted as recruits. "On Guerrilla Gardening" is Reynolds' lively, colourful treatise on why people illicitly cultivate land and how to do it yourself. From discreetly beautifying corners of Montreal to striving for green communal space in Berlin and sustainable food production in San Francisco, from Christmas trees on London roundabouts to the political agitations of landless workers in Brazil, Reynolds charts a battle that people worldwide are fighting on many different fronts. Along the way he unearths the movement's notable historic advances by seventeenth-century English radicals, a nineteenth-century American entrepreneur and public-spirited artists in 1970s New York. Reynolds has researched the subject with guerrilla gardeners from thirty different countries, and compiles their advice on what to grow where, how to cope with adverse environmental conditions, how to seed-bomb effectively, how to harness propaganda to win support and even how to handle anti-terror police. "On Guerrilla Gardening" informs, entertains and inspires. Packed with photographs, anecdotes and sound horticultural advice, it is an irresistible invitation to shoulder your shovel and join the revolution that is blooming in the world's shared spaces.
Landscape Theory
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while(...)
Henri Cartier-Bresson : the modern century
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. Cartier-Bresson would go on to produce major bodies of photographic reportage, capturing such events as China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States in the postwar boom and Europe as its older cultures confronted modern realities. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson — including thousands of prints and a vast resource of documents relating to the photographer's life and work. The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson's career through 300 photographs divided into 12 chapters. While many of his most famous pictures are included, a great number of images will be unfamiliar even to specialists. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new understanding of Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art. The extensive supporting material — featuring detailed chronologies of the photographer's professional travels and of spreads of his picture stories as they appeared in magazines — will revolutionize the study of Cartier-Bresson's work.
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Le système Minard
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Un recueil des cartes statistiques de l'ingénieur civil Charles-Joseph Minard. Ces représentations graphiques représentent une démarche pionnière dans la visualisation des données des sciences sociales. Elles documentent également les effets spatiaux des bouleversements nés de la révolution industrielle et de la mondialisation.
Le système Minard
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Un recueil des cartes statistiques de l'ingénieur civil Charles-Joseph Minard. Ces représentations graphiques représentent une démarche pionnière dans la visualisation des données des sciences sociales. Elles documentent également les effets spatiaux des bouleversements nés de la révolution industrielle et de la mondialisation.
Signage
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Synthèse très documentée d’une vaste révolution urbaine, des bidonvilles de l’après-guerre jusqu’aux villes nouvelles, ce livre relate et analyse trois décennies d’expérimentations au cœur desquelles était placé l’habitat, nouvel enjeu du modernisme, et établit une véritable généalogie de la banlieue française.
La banlieue, un projet social : ambitions d'une politique urbaine (1945-1975)
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Synthèse très documentée d’une vaste révolution urbaine, des bidonvilles de l’après-guerre jusqu’aux villes nouvelles, ce livre relate et analyse trois décennies d’expérimentations au cœur desquelles était placé l’habitat, nouvel enjeu du modernisme, et établit une véritable généalogie de la banlieue française.
Urban Theory
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Au cœur de la capitale arménienne et de cette révolution architecturale, Yann Kebbi, et l’énergie monumentale de son trait, associé à l’humour absurde de l’écrivain Viken Berberian, dessine un portrait grotesque et terriblement réaliste de notre monde. “Il faut tout reconstruire, terminés les vieux immeubles historiques, place au renouveau !”
La structure est pourrie, camarade
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Au cœur de la capitale arménienne et de cette révolution architecturale, Yann Kebbi, et l’énergie monumentale de son trait, associé à l’humour absurde de l’écrivain Viken Berberian, dessine un portrait grotesque et terriblement réaliste de notre monde. “Il faut tout reconstruire, terminés les vieux immeubles historiques, place au renouveau !”
Illustration
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En pleine révolution culinaire, Voltaire enquête sur les traces d'un assassin qui sème derrière lui tartes au cyanure et ragoûts à l'arsenic. L'aide de la brillante marquise du Châtelet, experte en recherches scientifiques, et de l'abbé Linant, fin gourmet, ne sera pas de trop pour rendre l'appétit aux gastronomes.
Crimes et condiments : Voltaire mène l'enquête
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En pleine révolution culinaire, Voltaire enquête sur les traces d'un assassin qui sème derrière lui tartes au cyanure et ragoûts à l'arsenic. L'aide de la brillante marquise du Châtelet, experte en recherches scientifiques, et de l'abbé Linant, fin gourmet, ne sera pas de trop pour rendre l'appétit aux gastronomes.
Food
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Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published poems in journals and chapbooks. Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the self-produced magazines of the Lower East Side's mimeo revolution, and(...)
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March 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
Languages to cover a page : the early writings of Vito Acconci
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Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published poems in journals and chapbooks. Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the self-produced magazines of the Lower East Side's mimeo revolution, and many other pieces were never published. Language to Cover a Page collects these writings for the first time and not only shows Acconci to be an important experimental writer of the period, but demonstrates the continuity of his early writing with his later work in film, video, and performance. "Language to cover a page" documents a key moment in the unprecedented intersection of artists and poets in the late 1960s - as seen in the Dwan Gallery's series of "Language" shows (1967-1970) and in Acconci's own journal 0 to 9. Indeed, as Acconci moved from the poetry scene to the art world, his poetry became increasingly performative while his artwork was often structured and motivated by linguistic play. Acconci's early writing recalls the work of Samuel Beckett, the deadpan voice of the nouveau roman, and the jump cuts and fraught permutations of the nouvelle vague. Poems in "Language to cover a page" explore the materiality of language ("language as matter and not ideas," as Robert Smithson put it), the physical space of the page, and the physicality of source texts (phonebooks, thesauruses, dictionaries). Other poems take the space of the page as an analogue to performance space or implicate the poem in a network of activity (as in his "Dial-a-Poem" pieces).
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance, or respond to a text. "Reading Pictures" presents a global history of this versatile art form, linking its emergence to modern developments such as the illustrated news, recreational reading, and ad-driven consumer culture. From the advent of(...)
Reading pictures: A history of illustration
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Of all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the written word, often serving to visualize, enhance, or respond to a text. "Reading Pictures" presents a global history of this versatile art form, linking its emergence to modern developments such as the illustrated news, recreational reading, and ad-driven consumer culture. From the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century to the modernist artistic and cultural movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, D. B. Dowd traces the development of illustration as an integral part of the reading experience. He examines the move from ancient scrolls to pamphlets and book forms, and a return to the scroll in electronic form on smartphones and tablets. His story begins with relief prints and woodcuts in ancient China and Japan before moving to printing and platemaking in early modern Europe. Dowd discusses how book and periodical publishing rose sharply with the innovations of wood engraving and lithography, leading to a boom in cultural literacy; and how the illustrated press reached its zenith between the 1860s and 1960s, as printed entertainment and the news of the world became commonplace in every household, bringing with them advertising, propaganda, and consumer culture. Richly illustrated with more than four hundred images spanning the iconic to the unexpected, Reading Pictures reframes the story of illustration within the broader histories of race, gender, literacy, and the transmission of cultural memory. It reveals how reading and looking have become increasingly integrated, and that, as images have become ever more prevalent today with the digital revolution, what is meant by literacy has evolved.
Illustration
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Since the first edition of "Edible Estates : Attack on the Front Lawn" was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. This greatly expanded second edition of the book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New(...)
Edible estates : attack on the front lawn, 2nd edition
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Since the first edition of "Edible Estates : Attack on the Front Lawn" was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. This greatly expanded second edition of the book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that author Fritz Haeg has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and England, and includes personal accounts from the homeowner-gardeners about the pleasures and challenges of publicly growing food where they live. Ten "Reports from Coast to Coast" tell the stories of others who have planted their own edible front yards in towns and cities across the country. In addition to essays by landscape architect and scholar Diana Balmori, edible-landscaping pioneer Rosalind Creasy, bestselling author and sustainable-food advocate Michael Pollan and artist and writer Lesley Stern, this edition features updated text by Haeg (including his observations on the Obama White House vegetable garden); a contribution from Mannahatta author Eric W. Sanderson; and Growing Power founder, MacArthur Fellow and urban farmer Will Allen's never-before-published Declaration of the Good Food Revolution. This is not a comprehensive how-to book, nor a showcase of impossibly perfect gardens. The stories presented here are intended to reveal something about how we are living today and to inspire readers to plant their own versions of an Edible Estate. If we see that our neighbor's typical grassy lawn instead can be a beautiful food garden, perhaps we will begin to look at the city around us with new eyes. Our private land can be a public model for the world in which we would like to live.
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Six contributions, dues à des chercheurs et des praticiens français et étrangers, tentent de prendre la mesure des changements culturels inéluctables et de ceux qui sont souhaités, notamment dans le domaine des nouveaux modes de création des formes. Une réflexion critique à un moment charnière de la révolution numérique tant annoncée.
Les cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine # 7 virtuel / réel : quelle place pour les nouvelles technologies?
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Six contributions, dues à des chercheurs et des praticiens français et étrangers, tentent de prendre la mesure des changements culturels inéluctables et de ceux qui sont souhaités, notamment dans le domaine des nouveaux modes de création des formes. Une réflexion critique à un moment charnière de la révolution numérique tant annoncée.
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