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Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this text examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism, and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Using examples of specific cultural moments to elucidate(...)
Seeing from above: the aerial view in visual culture
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Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this text examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism, and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Using examples of specific cultural moments to elucidate the wider theory, this is the only book to provide a cultural history of the aerial imagination and its centrality to visual culture.
Theory of Photography
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La sérigraphie est devenue l'un des procédés d'impression les plus populaires au monde, désormais reconnu comme un art à part entière. Après avoir présenté les matériaux et outils indispensables, cet ouvrage, conçu comme un guide pratique illustré, décrit en détail l'ensemble des techniques de la sérigraphie, de la préparation du film positif à l'impression proprement(...)
La sérigraphie: outils, techniques et portraits d'artistes
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La sérigraphie est devenue l'un des procédés d'impression les plus populaires au monde, désormais reconnu comme un art à part entière. Après avoir présenté les matériaux et outils indispensables, cet ouvrage, conçu comme un guide pratique illustré, décrit en détail l'ensemble des techniques de la sérigraphie, de la préparation du film positif à l'impression proprement dite - monochrome ou multicolore, sur différents supports - en passant par les étapes d'enduction de l'écran, de sélection des couleurs, d'insolation, etc.
Printed Matter
Y & G #12 (curtain walls)
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The artistic practice of Daniel Young and Christian Giroux exists at the intersection of art and architecture. From their respective positions as art historian and architect they create sculptures, installations and films that reflect upon the successes and failures of the built environment. This publication brings together for the first time three sculptures (Coaptation,(...)
Y & G #12 (curtain walls)
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The artistic practice of Daniel Young and Christian Giroux exists at the intersection of art and architecture. From their respective positions as art historian and architect they create sculptures, installations and films that reflect upon the successes and failures of the built environment. This publication brings together for the first time three sculptures (Coaptation, Chagrin, and Eunoia) and a film (Camera Tracking a Spiral Drawn Between the Two Curved Towers of Viljo Revell's Toronto City Hall).
Canadian art
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse(...)
Dirt: new geographies of cleanliness and contamination
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.
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Urban Theory
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Josiah McElheny (born 1966) produces fabricated glass objects that address such topics as the nature of perception, the narratives of modernism and the origin of the universe. Since 2007 he has produced a series of sculptures and a film inspired by The Light Club of Batavia, a 1912 short story by German Expressionist writer Paul Scheerbart. This publication focuses on(...)
Josiah McElheny: towards a light club
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Josiah McElheny (born 1966) produces fabricated glass objects that address such topics as the nature of perception, the narratives of modernism and the origin of the universe. Since 2007 he has produced a series of sculptures and a film inspired by The Light Club of Batavia, a 1912 short story by German Expressionist writer Paul Scheerbart. This publication focuses on McElheny’s Light Club works, which investigate the role of glass in utopian ideas about modernist architecture.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Koolhaas houselife
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First project of the Living Architectures series, Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house's daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Pungent, funny and touching. Ce livre vient avec un(...)
Koolhaas houselife
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First project of the Living Architectures series, Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house's daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Pungent, funny and touching. Ce livre vient avec un DVD du documentaire Koolhaas Houselife de 58 minutes en français et d'un entretien avec Rem Koolhaas de 11 min.
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Architecture Monographs
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to(...)
Jeff Wall: works from Munich collections
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Like almost no other artist of his generation, Canadian Jeff Wall (born in 1946) has focused on the potential of artistic composition, the boundaries between the genres of painting, photography, sculpture, and film, fiction and reality. This publication aims to take a fresh look at Wall's oeuvre, which has been so influential and had such an international impact, and to allow his works to be experienced in light of the recognition of photography as an art form.
Photography monographs
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Though widely recognized as the founder of the legendary Fluxus movement, George Maciunas has long been a puzzling figure in the history of twentieth-century art. Many have questioned whether he should be considered an artist at all. In ''Fluxus Administration'', critic and art historian Colby Chamberlain reveals the consistent artistic practice hidden behind Maciunas’s(...)
Fluxus administration: George Maciuna and the art of paperwork
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Though widely recognized as the founder of the legendary Fluxus movement, George Maciunas has long been a puzzling figure in the history of twentieth-century art. Many have questioned whether he should be considered an artist at all. In ''Fluxus Administration'', critic and art historian Colby Chamberlain reveals the consistent artistic practice hidden behind Maciunas’s varied work in architecture, music, performance, publication, graphic design, film, and real estate as an attempt to create models for community through structures of bureaucracy.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Florentine photographer Lapo Baraldi eloquently captures a silent and surreal Florence, empty of people, during the first phase of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. Shooting with black and white film, these urban spaces are revealed as their planners imagined them, and the viewer becomes lost in their timelessness. As with archival images, we are aware of the life that(...)
Firenze com'è / Florence as it is. Lapo Baraldi
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Florentine photographer Lapo Baraldi eloquently captures a silent and surreal Florence, empty of people, during the first phase of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. Shooting with black and white film, these urban spaces are revealed as their planners imagined them, and the viewer becomes lost in their timelessness. As with archival images, we are aware of the life that is simmering below the surface. "Firenze com'è / Florence as it is is" accompanied by a previously unpublished short story by Elena Ronchi.
Photography monographs
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This volume proposes a reappraisal of the 1967 Montreal International and Universal Exhibition across a range of political, social, and cultural spaces: from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and what was then known as the Third World, through the aspirations of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and(...)
Expo 67 and its world: Staging the nation in the crucible of globalization
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This volume proposes a reappraisal of the 1967 Montreal International and Universal Exhibition across a range of political, social, and cultural spaces: from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and what was then known as the Third World, through the aspirations of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance. A new approach to understanding Expo 67, the collection challenges assumptions about the significance of the event to Canadian, Québécois, and First Nations history.
Architecture in Canada