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Bringing together scholars of Chinese art, cinema, culture, performance, and more, this volume shares groundbreaking research on the objects and practices of everyday life in Mao’s China, from bamboo and bricks to dance and film. With engaging narratives and probing analysis, the contributors make a place for China’s experience in the history of global material culture(...)
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Material contradictions in Mao's China
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Bringing together scholars of Chinese art, cinema, culture, performance, and more, this volume shares groundbreaking research on the objects and practices of everyday life in Mao’s China, from bamboo and bricks to dance and film. With engaging narratives and probing analysis, the contributors make a place for China’s experience in the history of global material culture and the study of socialist modernity.
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In "Yours in food", John Baldessari, a founding member of the Conceptual art movement, invites us to join him at the dinner table. His carefully composed vignettes appropriated from video and film are accompanied by meditations on eating specially commissioned from the country's foremost contemporary writers and cultural critics, such as Paul Auster, Tim Griffin and(...)
Yours in food, John Baldessari
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In "Yours in food", John Baldessari, a founding member of the Conceptual art movement, invites us to join him at the dinner table. His carefully composed vignettes appropriated from video and film are accompanied by meditations on eating specially commissioned from the country's foremost contemporary writers and cultural critics, such as Paul Auster, Tim Griffin and Francine Prose. Previously priced at $34.95.
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CITIX60: Los Angeles
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CITIX60 – Los Angeles is an insider’s tour of LA, with tips for exploring popular attractions as well as the hidden gems of the city. Recommendations include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, catching a film event at the Cinefamily, exploring Dave Egger’s Time Travel Mart, brunch at the fire station-turned-restaurant Edendale, and spending a bewitching evening at the(...)
CITIX60: Los Angeles
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CITIX60 – Los Angeles is an insider’s tour of LA, with tips for exploring popular attractions as well as the hidden gems of the city. Recommendations include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, catching a film event at the Cinefamily, exploring Dave Egger’s Time Travel Mart, brunch at the fire station-turned-restaurant Edendale, and spending a bewitching evening at the Magical Castle.
City Guides
Grey room 30
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Grey Room issue number 30 features articles such as "Darkened Rooms: A Genealogy of Avant-Garde Filmstrips from Man Ray to the London Film-Makers' Co-op and Back Again" by Noam M. Elcott; "Human Resources: June 1968, Hair, and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End" by Branislav Jakovljevic; "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art" by Luke Skrebowski, and more.
Grey room 30
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Grey Room issue number 30 features articles such as "Darkened Rooms: A Genealogy of Avant-Garde Filmstrips from Man Ray to the London Film-Makers' Co-op and Back Again" by Noam M. Elcott; "Human Resources: June 1968, Hair, and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End" by Branislav Jakovljevic; "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art" by Luke Skrebowski, and more.
Magazines
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Gretchen Grace is a photographer living in New York City. This publication combines early black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally. Through candid portraits of the people of New York and found compositions from the fabric of the city, the combined work tells the timeless story of the everyday in the city.
Gretchen Grace: Two way street
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Gretchen Grace is a photographer living in New York City. This publication combines early black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally. Through candid portraits of the people of New York and found compositions from the fabric of the city, the combined work tells the timeless story of the everyday in the city.
Photography monographs
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Swiss photographer Claudio Moser (born 1959) wanders the peripheries of cities and towns for hours - sometimes to the point of exhaustion - in search of the perfect image. Further distending his process, the artist often lets years pass after developing his film before viewing the images. Only then does he produce large-scale prints, revealing atmospherically dense(...)
Claudio Moser : nowhere near far enough
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Swiss photographer Claudio Moser (born 1959) wanders the peripheries of cities and towns for hours - sometimes to the point of exhaustion - in search of the perfect image. Further distending his process, the artist often lets years pass after developing his film before viewing the images. Only then does he produce large-scale prints, revealing atmospherically dense photographs of industrial wasteland and "non-places."
Photography monographs
Auer+Weber+Assoziierte
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In the last three decades, Auer + Weber + Assoziierte have devised structures ranging from cultural and research institutions to hotels, residences and larger urban designs - each based on differing conceptions such as sculptural volumetric bodies or structurally open environments. Their ESO hotel in Chile has become particularly celebrated since it was featured in the(...)
Auer+Weber+Assoziierte
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In the last three decades, Auer + Weber + Assoziierte have devised structures ranging from cultural and research institutions to hotels, residences and larger urban designs - each based on differing conceptions such as sculptural volumetric bodies or structurally open environments. Their ESO hotel in Chile has become particularly celebrated since it was featured in the final scene of the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Architecture Monographs
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This issue features "animate landscapes" by James A. Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn of Stasus. The project - an experimental film institute - mediates between its postindustrial site in Warsaw and the Edinburgh studio in which it was developed. By identifying, interrogating, and immaterial conditions of both landscape and studio, Stasus creates a new scape that draws on the(...)
Pamphlet architecture 32: resilience
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This issue features "animate landscapes" by James A. Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn of Stasus. The project - an experimental film institute - mediates between its postindustrial site in Warsaw and the Edinburgh studio in which it was developed. By identifying, interrogating, and immaterial conditions of both landscape and studio, Stasus creates a new scape that draws on the resilience of its constituent elements.
small format
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A collection of creations crafted from paper as a material for innovative art and design. The book gathers creations from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design,(...)
Paper and packaging design
October 2009
Papercraft: Design and art with paper
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A collection of creations crafted from paper as a material for innovative art and design. The book gathers creations from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design, illustration, fashion, animation and film.
Paper and packaging design
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Special collector's edition. This film is poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, Rivers and tides is a study of the(...)
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August 2009
DVD rivers and tides: Andy Goldsworthy
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Special collector's edition. This film is poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, Rivers and tides is a study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature.
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