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From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. "Lair: Radical Homes and(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
November 2019
Lair: radical homes and hideouts of movie villains
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From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. "Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains", celebrates and considers several iconic villains’ lairs from recent film history.
Commercial interiors, Building types
Martha Rosler: irrespective
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The work of Martha Rosler explores a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Over her career, Rosler has returned to themes of social justice, popular culture, food, gardens and the natural world, and the intersection of aesthetics and ethics. 'Martha Rosler: Irrespective' surveys the(...)
Martha Rosler: irrespective
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The work of Martha Rosler explores a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Over her career, Rosler has returned to themes of social justice, popular culture, food, gardens and the natural world, and the intersection of aesthetics and ethics. 'Martha Rosler: Irrespective' surveys the artist’s work, examining it across media including photocollage, video and film, installation, actions, and books.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The author considers the broad range of Matta-Clark’s ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the "discreet violation," he reveals the continued(...)
Gordon Matta-Clark: art, architecture and the attack on modernism
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The author considers the broad range of Matta-Clark’s ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the "discreet violation," he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark’s artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.
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May 2009
Hans-Christian Schink: 1h
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Negative film can only be exposed to a certain point, beyond which the photochemical process is reversed and the negative's darkest areas become light again. For Hans-Christian Schink's series 1h, a 1955 picture by Minor White, titled "Black Sun," was a source of inspiration. 1h employs an effect called real solarization. For 1h, Schink deliberately chose to combine this(...)
Hans-Christian Schink: 1h
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Negative film can only be exposed to a certain point, beyond which the photochemical process is reversed and the negative's darkest areas become light again. For Hans-Christian Schink's series 1h, a 1955 picture by Minor White, titled "Black Sun," was a source of inspiration. 1h employs an effect called real solarization. For 1h, Schink deliberately chose to combine this process with a very long exposure, acheiving effects of abstraction and blur.
Photography monographs
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Jericho Moons documents Eitan Ben-Moshe’s future works through a visual journey that moves between straight documentation and digital collages of imagined worlds where Ben-Moshe’s sculptures and lightboxes are transformed into new entities. This back and forth calls into question traditional understandings of temporality and reality.The book also features an interview(...)
Eitan Ben-Moshe: Jericho Moons
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Jericho Moons documents Eitan Ben-Moshe’s future works through a visual journey that moves between straight documentation and digital collages of imagined worlds where Ben-Moshe’s sculptures and lightboxes are transformed into new entities. This back and forth calls into question traditional understandings of temporality and reality.The book also features an interview with Yael Hersonski, the award winning director of ‘A Film Unfinished’, as well as essays by Naomi Aviv and Lior Galili.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In 1956 Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) moved from Amsterdam to Paris to study at the School of Film. There Van der Keuken took thousands of photographs, the city acting as a background to his feelings of desolation. In 1963 a selection of these were published in a book called 'Paris Mortel'. The complete book, including the original dummy Van der Keuken made and a few(...)
Johan Van Der Keuken: Paris mortel
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In 1956 Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) moved from Amsterdam to Paris to study at the School of Film. There Van der Keuken took thousands of photographs, the city acting as a background to his feelings of desolation. In 1963 a selection of these were published in a book called 'Paris Mortel'. The complete book, including the original dummy Van der Keuken made and a few previously unpublished photographs are collected in this publication.
Photography monographs
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Secondhand Reading began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made by William Kentridge (born 1955) in 2013, on the pages of old books. Conceived as a kind of secondhand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, it is both a narrative--it begins at the beginning and will eventually get to the end--and an acknowledgment of the(...)
William Kentridge: Secondhand Reading
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Secondhand Reading began life as a film constructed from a succession of drawings made by William Kentridge (born 1955) in 2013, on the pages of old books. Conceived as a kind of secondhand reading in which books are translated into a filming of books, it is both a narrative--it begins at the beginning and will eventually get to the end--and an acknowledgment of the necessity of repetition, inconsistency and the illogical.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This reader, edited and introduced by noted art historian and critic Gilda Williams, gathers the key critical writings across the artist’s essential works as explored through the lens of art history, post-colonial theory, film analysis, and more. Catalogue essays and exhibition reviews on individual works are set alongside Tan’s own substantial body of writing: essays,(...)
Fiona Tan: With the other hand
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This reader, edited and introduced by noted art historian and critic Gilda Williams, gathers the key critical writings across the artist’s essential works as explored through the lens of art history, post-colonial theory, film analysis, and more. Catalogue essays and exhibition reviews on individual works are set alongside Tan’s own substantial body of writing: essays, letters, scripts, project notes, as well as discussions of other artists’ work, from Chantal Akerman to Jeff Wall.
Art Theory
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"Horror in architecture" presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny. Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of(...)
Horror in architecture: The reanimated edition
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"Horror in architecture" presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny. Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of horror as a serious aesthetic category, "Horror in architecture" establishes incisive links between contemporary horror media and its parallel traits found in various architectural designs. Through chapters dedicated to distorted and monstrous buildings, abandoned spaces, extremes of scale, and other structural peculiarities, and featuring new essays on insurgent natures, blobs, and architectural puppets, this volume brings together diverse architectural anomalies and shows how their unsettling effects deepen our fascination with the unreal. Intended for both horror fans and students of visual culture, Horror in Architecture turns a unique lens on the relationship between the human body and the artificial landscapes it inhabits. Extensively illustrated with photographs, film stills, and diagrams, this book retrieves horror from the cultural fringes and demonstrates how its attributes permeate the modern condition and the material world.
Architectural Theory
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This eighth book in a series from the Poster Collection of the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung focuses on the work of Ralph Schraivogel. Schraivogel was born in 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied at the Zurich School of Design and, upon his graduation in 1982, opened his own graphic design studio in Zurich. Long-term clients include Film Podium, the Zurich repertory(...)
Poster collection 09 : Ralph Schraivogel
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This eighth book in a series from the Poster Collection of the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung focuses on the work of Ralph Schraivogel. Schraivogel was born in 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied at the Zurich School of Design and, upon his graduation in 1982, opened his own graphic design studio in Zurich. Long-term clients include Film Podium, the Zurich repertory cinema, and the Zurich Museum fur Gestaltung. Since opening his studio, Schraivogel has worked with many cultural institutions, such as the Kunsthaus Zurich, Theater am Neumarkt, the Jazz Festival Zurich, the Literature Days in Solothurn and the African Film Festival in Zurich. Among his multiple awards are the Gold Medal at the 1994 Warsaw Poster Biennial, the Gold Medal at the 1994 Moscow Poster Biennial, the Gold Medal at the 1997 Chaumont Poster Festival, the Grand Prix at the 1998 Brno Poster Biennial, and the Gold Medal at the 2001 Ningbo International Poster Exhibition. Schraivogel is the three-time winner of the Swiss Federal Prize for Applied Art and the twelve-time winner of the Best Swiss Poster of the Year Award.
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