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Shaker design / June Sprigg.
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228 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Norton, ©1986.
Shaker design / June Sprigg.
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228 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Norton, ©1986.
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Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry is considered one of the most important and influential architects in contemporary architecture. This issue of ‘a+u’ features drawings by Frank Gehry that span three decades, from his early works in the 1960s to the “exploding” box in Los Angeles, through to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the late 1990s. While the projects(...)
A+U 628: Becoming Frank Gehry
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Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry is considered one of the most important and influential architects in contemporary architecture. This issue of ‘a+u’ features drawings by Frank Gehry that span three decades, from his early works in the 1960s to the “exploding” box in Los Angeles, through to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the late 1990s. While the projects showcased vary greatly, they document the emergence of Gehry’s radical style, which he would pursue in the following decades. With texts by Jean-Louis Cohen and Megan Meulemans, as well as drawings, sketches, and photographs.
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First released in 2015 with a second edition in 2021 and long since out of print, ''Small things in silence'' surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto(...)
Masao Yamamoto: Small things in silence. 3rd edition
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First released in 2015 with a second edition in 2021 and long since out of print, ''Small things in silence'' surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Edited and sequenced by Yamamoto himself, this volume includes images from each of the photographer's major projects—Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa and Shizuka—as well as installation shots of some of Yamamoto's original photographic installations.
Photography monographs
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The second in a series of publications on mid-century architecture in the Buffalo Books series, this book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery extension, a black modernist box, designed by Gordon Bunshaft, set adjacent to the original Neoclassical gallery. Bunshaft’s ideas were progressive in the post-war era and anticipated(...)
Gordon Bunshaft / SOM: Albright - Knox Art Gallery
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The second in a series of publications on mid-century architecture in the Buffalo Books series, this book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery extension, a black modernist box, designed by Gordon Bunshaft, set adjacent to the original Neoclassical gallery. Bunshaft’s ideas were progressive in the post-war era and anticipated transformations finally emerging today. He once said “…the building industry, as a whole, not just the architectural aspects of it, is a slow moving device…but eventually we will have pre-fabricated, light constructed, rapidly constructed, clean buildings.”
Architecture Monographs
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This publication focuses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability through the lens of postwar and contemporary art. Also representing the fields of design, architecture and technology, Examples to Follow! highlights works ranging from objects made from recycled products to a floating island where clean water can be made by physical activity. The list of(...)
Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability
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This publication focuses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability through the lens of postwar and contemporary art. Also representing the fields of design, architecture and technology, Examples to Follow! highlights works ranging from objects made from recycled products to a floating island where clean water can be made by physical activity. The list of international artists includes Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Richard Box, Ines Doujak, Adib Fricke, Klara Hobza, Lukas Feireiss, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Josef Hack, Henrik Håkansson, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Christoph Keller, and others.
Art Periods and Styles
The big princess
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A simple fairy tale meets bold, geometric art in this fresh, witty story from Japan. Once upon a time, a king and queen discover among their flowers a lovely and very tiny princess perched on a leaf. Overjoyed to have found a daughter, they fashion for her a single-feather bed and watch as she grows large enough to sleep in a ring box, a teacup, and a teddy bear’s lap.(...)
The big princess
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A simple fairy tale meets bold, geometric art in this fresh, witty story from Japan. Once upon a time, a king and queen discover among their flowers a lovely and very tiny princess perched on a leaf. Overjoyed to have found a daughter, they fashion for her a single-feather bed and watch as she grows large enough to sleep in a ring box, a teacup, and a teddy bear’s lap. But still the princess keeps growing and growing, until her head pokes through the top of even the tallest tower.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Fall Semester, 2016.
Ecologies of Existence : On Approaching Life from Within the Exhibitionary Complex.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Fall Semester, 2016.
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320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm
London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.
Joseph Banks' Florilegium : botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage / with texts by Mel Gooding ; commentaries on the plates by David Mabberley ; and an afterword by Joe Studholme.
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320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm
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London : Thames and Hudson, 2019.
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336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
New York : W.W. Norton, [1999], ©1999
Ranches, rowhouses, and railroad flats : American homes : how they shape our landscapes and neighborhoods / Christine Hunter.
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336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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New York : W.W. Norton, [1999], ©1999
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approximately 200 prints : all illustrations ; 22 cm in 2 boxes
[Boston] : [University Prints, .], [approximately 1916]
[Miscellaneous prints from the University Prints series].
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approximately 200 prints : all illustrations ; 22 cm in 2 boxes
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[Boston] : [University Prints, .], [approximately 1916]