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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an(...)
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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an(...)
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Jet age aesthetic: the glamour of media in motion
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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.
Jet age aesthetic: the glamour of media in motion
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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.
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Design, Periods and Styles
Design, Periods and Styles
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In "The Atlas of New Librarianship", R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for(...)
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In "The Atlas of New Librarianship", R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for(...)
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The atlas of new librarianship
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In "The Atlas of New Librarianship", R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities.
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In "The Atlas of New Librarianship", R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities.
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September 2016
September 2016
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Archive, library and the digital
Archive, library and the digital
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was(...)
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was(...)
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September 2019
September 2019
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Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was visually connected to the previous one. It was understood from the outset that they had to use images that could be scanned from physical items they already had at home (no images from the internet), such as children's books, technical manuals and assorted ephemera. The call-and-response nature of the enterprise can be appreciated in the pairs of facing pages that present themselves as you go through the book. This second edition, expanding on the Nieves edition of 2013, includes the entire project of 196 exchanges that make up Dumontier and Lexier's clever, competitive, meandering conversation.
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
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Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Canadian artists Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found images, line drawings and used books. The starting image was a circle on a rectangle; every subsequent image was visually connected to the previous one. It was understood from the outset that they had to use images that could be scanned from physical items they already had at home (no images from the internet), such as children's books, technical manuals and assorted ephemera. The call-and-response nature of the enterprise can be appreciated in the pairs of facing pages that present themselves as you go through the book. This second edition, expanding on the Nieves edition of 2013, includes the entire project of 196 exchanges that make up Dumontier and Lexier's clever, competitive, meandering conversation.
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September 2019
September 2019
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Vers 1800, les architectes parisiens, privés de commandes importantes par la Révolution française, conçoivent d'élégantes boutiques qui favorisent l'essor de l'artisanat d'art. Le développement du commerce des tissus et les débuts de la construction métallique entraînent la création de passages commerciaux bientôt relayés par les magasins de nouveautés qui concurrencent(...)
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Vers 1800, les architectes parisiens, privés de commandes importantes par la Révolution française, conçoivent d'élégantes boutiques qui favorisent l'essor de l'artisanat d'art. Le développement du commerce des tissus et les débuts de la construction métallique entraînent la création de passages commerciaux bientôt relayés par les magasins de nouveautés qui concurrencent(...)
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Le temps des boutiques: de l'échoppe à eBay
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Vers 1800, les architectes parisiens, privés de commandes importantes par la Révolution française, conçoivent d'élégantes boutiques qui favorisent l'essor de l'artisanat d'art. Le développement du commerce des tissus et les débuts de la construction métallique entraînent la création de passages commerciaux bientôt relayés par les magasins de nouveautés qui concurrencent les boutiques. Avec l'Art Nouveau, celles-ci connaissent un nouvel âge d'or. L'entre-deux-guerres voit leur architecture s'inscrire dans les courants esthétiques de l'époque, néoplasticisme, surréalisme, nouvelle objectivité... La paix revenue, les boutiques, concurrencées par les centres commerciaux, recherchent la transparence absolue et s'orientent vers les showrooms. Londres devient la capitale de la mode, en Italie Olivetti confie ses boutiques de prestige à des architectes renommés, tandis qu'à Paris Christian Girard impose son style futuriste. Avec la mondialisation, les vitrines deviennent un enjeu économique et publicitaire et les plus grands créateurs sont invités à mettre en scène les grandes marques tandis que la vitrine virtuelle, via Internet, unit les acheteurs du monde entier.
Le temps des boutiques: de l'échoppe à eBay
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Vers 1800, les architectes parisiens, privés de commandes importantes par la Révolution française, conçoivent d'élégantes boutiques qui favorisent l'essor de l'artisanat d'art. Le développement du commerce des tissus et les débuts de la construction métallique entraînent la création de passages commerciaux bientôt relayés par les magasins de nouveautés qui concurrencent les boutiques. Avec l'Art Nouveau, celles-ci connaissent un nouvel âge d'or. L'entre-deux-guerres voit leur architecture s'inscrire dans les courants esthétiques de l'époque, néoplasticisme, surréalisme, nouvelle objectivité... La paix revenue, les boutiques, concurrencées par les centres commerciaux, recherchent la transparence absolue et s'orientent vers les showrooms. Londres devient la capitale de la mode, en Italie Olivetti confie ses boutiques de prestige à des architectes renommés, tandis qu'à Paris Christian Girard impose son style futuriste. Avec la mondialisation, les vitrines deviennent un enjeu économique et publicitaire et les plus grands créateurs sont invités à mettre en scène les grandes marques tandis que la vitrine virtuelle, via Internet, unit les acheteurs du monde entier.
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July 2009
July 2009
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human. Cyberculture is the broader name given to this process of becoming through technological means. This book shows that(...)
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The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human. Cyberculture is the broader name given to this process of becoming through technological means. This book shows that(...)
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May 2014
May 2014
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Prefiguring cyberculture: an intellectual history
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The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human. Cyberculture is the broader name given to this process of becoming through technological means. This book shows that cyberculture has been a long time coming.In Prefiguring Cyberculture, media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the Internet, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and the cyborg. The contributors examine key texts that anticipate cybercultural practice and theory, including Plato's "Simile of the Cave"; the Renaissance Ars Memoria; Descartes's Meditations (on the mind-body split); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence; Philip K. Dick's Man, Android, and Machine; William Gibson's Neuromancer; and Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future.
Prefiguring cyberculture: an intellectual history
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The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human. Cyberculture is the broader name given to this process of becoming through technological means. This book shows that cyberculture has been a long time coming.In Prefiguring Cyberculture, media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the Internet, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and the cyborg. The contributors examine key texts that anticipate cybercultural practice and theory, including Plato's "Simile of the Cave"; the Renaissance Ars Memoria; Descartes's Meditations (on the mind-body split); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence; Philip K. Dick's Man, Android, and Machine; William Gibson's Neuromancer; and Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future.
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Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1998], ©1998
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1998], ©1998
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John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening / edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
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John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European gardening / edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
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Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1998], ©1998
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Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In ''The city authentic,'' author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this(...)
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Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In ''The city authentic,'' author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this(...)
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The city authentic: how the attention economy builds urban America
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Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In ''The city authentic,'' author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this engaging study of New York State’s Capital Region is an accessible glimpse into the social phenomena that influence contemporary cities. The rising economic fortunes of cities in the Rust Belt, Banks argues, are due in part to the markers of its previous decay—which translate into signs of urban authenticity on the internet. ''The city authentic'' unpacks the odd connection between digital media and derelict buildings, the consequences of how we think about industry and place, and the political processes that have enabled a new paradigm in urban planning. Mixing urban sociology with media and cultural studies, Banks offers a lively account of how urban life and development are changing in the twenty-first century.
The city authentic: how the attention economy builds urban America
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Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In ''The city authentic,'' author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this engaging study of New York State’s Capital Region is an accessible glimpse into the social phenomena that influence contemporary cities. The rising economic fortunes of cities in the Rust Belt, Banks argues, are due in part to the markers of its previous decay—which translate into signs of urban authenticity on the internet. ''The city authentic'' unpacks the odd connection between digital media and derelict buildings, the consequences of how we think about industry and place, and the political processes that have enabled a new paradigm in urban planning. Mixing urban sociology with media and cultural studies, Banks offers a lively account of how urban life and development are changing in the twenty-first century.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that(...)
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that(...)
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The architecture of loneliness: reflections on displacement and welcoming
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that refrains from social relations, loneliness suffers from the lack of these. The three essays in this book each explore a side of loneliness, strongly connected to the encounter with the other. South-African psychologist Wahbie Long lays out what kind of relationships to the outside world emerge from childhood experiences of playing and relating to others. French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain uses the metaphor of architecture with its terms as threshold, doors, walls, windows, a bench in front of the frontal wall; elements that construct '‘home'', the architectural and emotional place where encounters can happen, where ‘'strangers'’ should be welcomed and trusted. French psychoanalyst Lysiane Lamantowicz discusses a form of loneliness that we see all around us: the consequences of social networks on the internet.
The architecture of loneliness: reflections on displacement and welcoming
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that refrains from social relations, loneliness suffers from the lack of these. The three essays in this book each explore a side of loneliness, strongly connected to the encounter with the other. South-African psychologist Wahbie Long lays out what kind of relationships to the outside world emerge from childhood experiences of playing and relating to others. French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain uses the metaphor of architecture with its terms as threshold, doors, walls, windows, a bench in front of the frontal wall; elements that construct '‘home'', the architectural and emotional place where encounters can happen, where ‘'strangers'’ should be welcomed and trusted. French psychoanalyst Lysiane Lamantowicz discusses a form of loneliness that we see all around us: the consequences of social networks on the internet.
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October 2024
October 2024
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"Twentieth-Century Type" surveys the significant issues that have shaped the history and evolution of typography and graphic design, showing how current typographic trends are part of a continuously changing movement that can be plotted through the decades. Generously illustrated with over three hundred examples–more than two hundred of which are in color–the book charts(...)
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"Twentieth-Century Type" surveys the significant issues that have shaped the history and evolution of typography and graphic design, showing how current typographic trends are part of a continuously changing movement that can be plotted through the decades. Generously illustrated with over three hundred examples–more than two hundred of which are in color–the book charts(...)
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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June 2004, New Haven / London
June 2004, New Haven / London
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Twentieth-century type, new & revised edition
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"Twentieth-Century Type" surveys the significant issues that have shaped the history and evolution of typography and graphic design, showing how current typographic trends are part of a continuously changing movement that can be plotted through the decades. Generously illustrated with over three hundred examples–more than two hundred of which are in color–the book charts significant topics including the arrival of mass-production; the birth of the art director; the appearance of the grid (and its subsequent rejection); the coming of non-print media; and the launch of the Macintosh computer and its ushering in of a new generation of designers enfranchised by digital technology. This revised edition of a fundamental work brings the story up to date with new text and images covering type on screen and, in particular, type for the internet. Combining an assessment of the culture of experimentation in contemporary typographic design alongside a clear presentation of the field’s historical context, the book is an informed and accessible source for all students of design and for designers needing an expert overview of typography.
Twentieth-century type, new & revised edition
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"Twentieth-Century Type" surveys the significant issues that have shaped the history and evolution of typography and graphic design, showing how current typographic trends are part of a continuously changing movement that can be plotted through the decades. Generously illustrated with over three hundred examples–more than two hundred of which are in color–the book charts significant topics including the arrival of mass-production; the birth of the art director; the appearance of the grid (and its subsequent rejection); the coming of non-print media; and the launch of the Macintosh computer and its ushering in of a new generation of designers enfranchised by digital technology. This revised edition of a fundamental work brings the story up to date with new text and images covering type on screen and, in particular, type for the internet. Combining an assessment of the culture of experimentation in contemporary typographic design alongside a clear presentation of the field’s historical context, the book is an informed and accessible source for all students of design and for designers needing an expert overview of typography.
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June 2004, New Haven / London
June 2004, New Haven / London
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Il était resté glissé dans la poche intérieure du vieil étui en cuir acheté sur Internet. Un tout petit répertoire, comme ceux vendus avec les recharges annuelles des agendas, daté de 1951. A : Aragon. B : Breton, Brassaï, Braque, Balthus… J’ai feuilleté avec sidération ces pages un peu jaunies. C : Cocteau, Chagall… E : Éluard… G : Giacometti… À chaque fois, leur numéro(...)
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Il était resté glissé dans la poche intérieure du vieil étui en cuir acheté sur Internet. Un tout petit répertoire, comme ceux vendus avec les recharges annuelles des agendas, daté de 1951. A : Aragon. B : Breton, Brassaï, Braque, Balthus… J’ai feuilleté avec sidération ces pages un peu jaunies. C : Cocteau, Chagall… E : Éluard… G : Giacometti… À chaque fois, leur numéro(...)
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Je suis le carnet de Dora Maar
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Il était resté glissé dans la poche intérieure du vieil étui en cuir acheté sur Internet. Un tout petit répertoire, comme ceux vendus avec les recharges annuelles des agendas, daté de 1951. A : Aragon. B : Breton, Brassaï, Braque, Balthus… J’ai feuilleté avec sidération ces pages un peu jaunies. C : Cocteau, Chagall… E : Éluard… G : Giacometti… À chaque fois, leur numéro de téléphone, souvent une adresse. L : Lacan… P : Ponge, Poulenc… Vingt pages où s’alignent les plus grands artistes de l’après-guerre. Qui pouvait bien connaître et frayer parmi ces génies du xxe siècle ? Il m’a fallu trois mois pour savoir que j’avais en main le carnet de Dora Maar. Il m’a fallu deux ans pour faire parler ce répertoire, comprendre la place de chacun dans sa vie et son carnet d’adresses, et approcher le mystère et les secrets de la « femme qui pleure ». Dora Maar, la grande photographe qui se donne à Picasso, puis, détruite par la passion, la peintre recluse qui s’abandonne à Dieu. Et dans son sillage, renaît un Paris où les amis s’appellent Balthus, Éluard, Leiris ou Noailles.
Je suis le carnet de Dora Maar
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Il était resté glissé dans la poche intérieure du vieil étui en cuir acheté sur Internet. Un tout petit répertoire, comme ceux vendus avec les recharges annuelles des agendas, daté de 1951. A : Aragon. B : Breton, Brassaï, Braque, Balthus… J’ai feuilleté avec sidération ces pages un peu jaunies. C : Cocteau, Chagall… E : Éluard… G : Giacometti… À chaque fois, leur numéro de téléphone, souvent une adresse. L : Lacan… P : Ponge, Poulenc… Vingt pages où s’alignent les plus grands artistes de l’après-guerre. Qui pouvait bien connaître et frayer parmi ces génies du xxe siècle ? Il m’a fallu trois mois pour savoir que j’avais en main le carnet de Dora Maar. Il m’a fallu deux ans pour faire parler ce répertoire, comprendre la place de chacun dans sa vie et son carnet d’adresses, et approcher le mystère et les secrets de la « femme qui pleure ». Dora Maar, la grande photographe qui se donne à Picasso, puis, détruite par la passion, la peintre recluse qui s’abandonne à Dieu. Et dans son sillage, renaît un Paris où les amis s’appellent Balthus, Éluard, Leiris ou Noailles.
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June 2019
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Literature and poetry
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