David Hammons
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In this engaging study, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find. And through it, she reveals Bliz-aard Ball Sale to be the backbone of a radical artistic oeuvre that transforms such notions as “art,”(...)
David Hammons
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In this engaging study, Elena Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action, uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult to find. And through it, she reveals Bliz-aard Ball Sale to be the backbone of a radical artistic oeuvre that transforms such notions as “art,” “commodity,” “performance,” and even “race” into categories that shift and dissolve, much like slowly melting snowballs.
Art Theory
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Cataloging studio archives, film stills, animation stills and scripts, and using images culled from White's two-year study of one teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgendered people, American Minor presents White's ongoing and never-before-seen(...)
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January 2009, Zürich
Charlie White: american minor
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Cataloging studio archives, film stills, animation stills and scripts, and using images culled from White's two-year study of one teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgendered people, American Minor presents White's ongoing and never-before-seen studies of the American teen subject as both image and idea. American Minor is a bold excavation of the sociosexual forces that surround us all.
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Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature—places we escape to and can’t escape from—have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have(...)
Places of the heart: the psychogeography of everyday life
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Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature—places we escape to and can’t escape from—have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating.
Urban Theory
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Networkologies is the first text to develop an entire new philosophy based upon networks. While many contemporary texts on networks have presented critiques or analyses of network formations in our world, this book is the first to develop an entirely new worldview based on the structure of networks themselves. From global capitalism to artificial minds, evolutionary(...)
Networkologies: a philosophy of networks for a hyperconnected age, a manifesto
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Networkologies is the first text to develop an entire new philosophy based upon networks. While many contemporary texts on networks have presented critiques or analyses of network formations in our world, this book is the first to develop an entirely new worldview based on the structure of networks themselves. From global capitalism to artificial minds, evolutionary biology to quantum physics, networks are our future. Networkologies presents us with a new image of thought for our hyperconnected age.
Critical Theory
Management of art galleries
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What makes a commercial art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which potential customer group is the most attractive? How best should galleries approach new markets while still serving their existing audiences? Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to 8,000 art dealers in the US, UK, and Germany, Magnus Resch's insightful(...)
Management of art galleries
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What makes a commercial art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which potential customer group is the most attractive? How best should galleries approach new markets while still serving their existing audiences? Based on the results of an anonymous survey sent to 8,000 art dealers in the US, UK, and Germany, Magnus Resch's insightful examination of the business of selling art is a compelling read that is both aspirational and practical in its approach.
Museology
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In 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Project Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs to lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine, already well established as a chronicler of social conditions of(...)
Lewis Hine: the national research project 1936-1937
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In 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Project Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs to lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine, already well established as a chronicler of social conditions of his day, produced more than 700 photographs for this project, the last major work of his career.
Photography monographs
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an(...)
The Chinese garden : history, art and architecture
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an introduction by Alison Hardie, includes many new illustrations, and an updated list of gardens in China accessible to visitors.
Gardens
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns,(...)
On the ground : observations from Harvard
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns, essays and interwiews she wrote as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduated School Design.
Urban Theory
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In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in urban environments under projected future environmental conditions. These plants are the most important and most common plants in cities. Learning what they are and the role they play, he writes, will help us all make cities(...)
Wild urban plants of the Northeast, 2nd edition
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In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in urban environments under projected future environmental conditions. These plants are the most important and most common plants in cities. Learning what they are and the role they play, he writes, will help us all make cities more livable and enjoyable. With more than 1000 photos, readers can easily identify these powerful plants.
Fauna and flora
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''Neighbors'' is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors- who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the wayst hat we think about those(...)
Neighbors
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''Neighbors'' is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors- who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the wayst hat we think about those we exist among, but who remain strangers until we make the brave-and affirming-decision to connect.
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