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City ABC book
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Every large city is filled with sights and sounds and lots and lots of words. But have you ever looked at the city itself? At the shapes created by wood, concrete, metal and paint? A keen eye and a little inspiration are all it takes to discover a hidden alphabet among the architecture of a bustling metropolis. The City ABC Book features dramatic black-and-white(...)
City ABC book
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Every large city is filled with sights and sounds and lots and lots of words. But have you ever looked at the city itself? At the shapes created by wood, concrete, metal and paint? A keen eye and a little inspiration are all it takes to discover a hidden alphabet among the architecture of a bustling metropolis. The City ABC Book features dramatic black-and-white photographs of urban landscapes with hidden letters boldly highlighted in red. Children will be inspired to take a second look at the world around them as their powers of observation are enhanced, and their imaginations are allowed to soar.
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January 2001
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Published in connection of the centennial of the artist's birth, this book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminescences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast a new light on his youth, his creativity and his relationships. During his sixty-year career, there is hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of(...)
The life of Isamu Noguchi : journey without borders
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Published in connection of the centennial of the artist's birth, this book draws on Noguchi's letters, his reminescences, and interviews with his friends and colleagues to cast a new light on his youth, his creativity and his relationships. During his sixty-year career, there is hardly a genre that Noguchi failed to explore. He produced more than 2,500 works of sculpture, designed furniture, lamps and stage sets, crated dramatic public gardens all over the world; and pioneered the development of environmental art. This biography, first published in Japanese, traces Isamu Noguchi's lifelong journey across the artistic and cultural borders in search of his personal identity.
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September 2004, Princeton
Design Monographs
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American artist Gordon Matta-Clark is perhaps best known for the site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. His body of work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his “building cuts”. Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, such as film, video, and photography, much of which appears in this catalogue, itself published(...)
Gordon Matta-Clark: splitting, cutting, writing, drawing, eating
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American artist Gordon Matta-Clark is perhaps best known for the site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. His body of work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his “building cuts”. Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, such as film, video, and photography, much of which appears in this catalogue, itself published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and Culturgest, Lisbon. The attractively designed book includes numerous of the artist’s own sketches and plans for various works, plus letters and other material that together form an in-depth portrait.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The Kandik map
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In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, François Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind the Kandik Map, examining the reasons why and how these two men from such different backgrounds combined their extensive(...)
The Kandik map
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In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, François Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind the Kandik Map, examining the reasons why and how these two men from such different backgrounds combined their extensive knowledge of the country to map the Kandik River region. Drawing on historical letters, geographical analysis, and the original map itself held in the University of California’s Bancroft Library, Johnson produces a groundbreaking study on the history of the Kandik Map and reveals its significant implications for Native American scholarship.
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October 2008
Architecture in Canada
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This book presents the typographic experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography.Based in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which he explores the anatomy of(...)
The typographer's guide to the galaxy
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This book presents the typographic experiments and experimental typography of visionary artist and designer Oded Ezer for the first time. A pioneer in the field, Ezer is one of the most influential designers today, who is reinventing the art of typography.Based in Tel Aviv, Ezer has an almost scientific approach to type design in which he explores the anatomy of letters and alphabets. His Hebrew and Latin characters and alphabets are influenced by calligraphy and integrate elements that are not typical for font design, such as ornamental and organic shapes that resemble creatures. The book introduces his type art and hybrid typo creatures, including projects from his Biotypography series.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Photographer Sean Lotman and his son Tennbo present a collection of collaborative works in which they took photographs of each other with a Polaroid camera and corresponded through letters. The relationship between the two is layered by the multiple exposures of the camera, blending the gaze of the son with the perspective of the child. ‘Puking Rainbows Past and Future’(...)
Puking rainbows past and future
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Photographer Sean Lotman and his son Tennbo present a collection of collaborative works in which they took photographs of each other with a Polaroid camera and corresponded through letters. The relationship between the two is layered by the multiple exposures of the camera, blending the gaze of the son with the perspective of the child. ‘Puking Rainbows Past and Future’ gathers memories of the now that contain both “then” and “now”. The images are reproduced in transparent foil with the same dimensions as Polaroid film, while the codex binding uses the rainbow colours of the book’s title. Extras include an essay by Sean and illustrations by Tennbo.
Photography monographs
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Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames’s residential architecture is defined by their human-centered approach to modernism. Their work demonstrates a deep commitment to structural clarity, user-centered functionality, and the intelligent use of prefabrication. Rather than focusing purely on aesthetics, the Eameses approached architecture as a form of(...)
The Eames houses: Charles and Ray Eames residential architecture
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Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames’s residential architecture is defined by their human-centered approach to modernism. Their work demonstrates a deep commitment to structural clarity, user-centered functionality, and the intelligent use of prefabrication. Rather than focusing purely on aesthetics, the Eameses approached architecture as a form of problem-solving, aiming to create flexible systems that offered a background for life and work in all its expressions. This book presents all eight houses they designed between 1945 and 1955, featuring sketches, drawings, letters, and photographs – many of which have never been published before – alongside newly produced diagrams and models that offer further insight into their design process.
Architecture Monographs
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The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts — interviews, feature articles, essays, lead(...)
OMA/Rem Koolhaas: a critical reader
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The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts — interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades.
Architecture Monographs
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The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts — interviews, feature articles, essays, lead(...)
OMA / Rem Koolhaas: a critical reader from 'Delirious New York' to 'S,M,L,XL'
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The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts — interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades.
Architecture Monographs
Envelope poems
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Although a very prolific poet, Emily Dickinson published fewer than a dozen poems. Instead, she created small handmade books. In her later years, she stopped producing these, but she continued to write a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find(...)
Literature and poetry
October 2016
Envelope poems
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Although a very prolific poet, Emily Dickinson published fewer than a dozen poems. Instead, she created small handmade books. In her later years, she stopped producing these, but she continued to write a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find the envelope poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these envelope poems are charged with a special poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once.
Literature and poetry