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L’ouvrage, organisé en quatre grandes sections thématiques (l’image de la lumière, le dispositif, la séquence et la séance), présente les spécificités de la diapositive. La sélection iconographique intègre la diversité de ces pratiques afin de rendre compte de son impact sur la culture visuelle et de son évolution. Elle comprend des travaux d’amateurs et de photographes(...)
Diapositive: histoire de la photographie projetée
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L’ouvrage, organisé en quatre grandes sections thématiques (l’image de la lumière, le dispositif, la séquence et la séance), présente les spécificités de la diapositive. La sélection iconographique intègre la diversité de ces pratiques afin de rendre compte de son impact sur la culture visuelle et de son évolution. Elle comprend des travaux d’amateurs et de photographes professionnels tels que Alfred Stieglitz et Helen Levitt ; elle montre ses usages dans le domaine de l’éducation et du divertissement populaire ; son intégration dans le domaine du design telles que les projections de Le Corbusier et de Charles et Ray Eames ; ainsi que des œuvres représentatives de l’intérêt des artistes conceptuels pour la projection à partir des années 1960 tels que Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Allan Sekula, Nan Goldin, Runo Lagomarsino, James Coleman, Peter Fischli et David Weiss, et Krzysztof Wodiczko.
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The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social world. Now demolished by the forces of speculative development, this Brutalist estate has been the subject of much dispute. But the clichéd terms of debate—a "concrete(...)
Brutalism as found: Housing, form and crisis at Robin Hood Gardens
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The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social world. Now demolished by the forces of speculative development, this Brutalist estate has been the subject of much dispute. But the clichéd terms of debate—a "concrete monstrosity" or a "modernist masterpiece"—have marginalized the estate's residents and obscured its architectural originality. Recovering the social in the architectural, this book centers the estate's lived experience of a multiracial working class, not to displace the architecture's sensory qualities of matter and form, but to radicalize them for our present. Immersed in the materials, atmospheres, social forms and afterlives of this experimental estate, Robin Hood Gardens is reconstructed here as a socio-architectural expression of our times out of joint.
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Art & place : site-specific art of the Americas.
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This book presents the transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, organized by Seth Siegelaub. Attendees at the event included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, John Chamberlain, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Robert Irwin, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, The N.E. Thing Company (Iain and Ingrid(...)
The Halifax Conference: October 5th and 6th, 1970
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This book presents the transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, organized by Seth Siegelaub. Attendees at the event included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, John Chamberlain, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Robert Irwin, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, The N.E. Thing Company (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow and Lawrence Weiner. The Halifax Conference was conceived as a means of bringing about a meeting of recognized artists representing diverse kinds of art from different parts of the world, in as general a situation as possible. Infamously, the conference was held in the college's boardroom, while students and other interested parties watched the proceedings on a video monitor in a separate space. The result was a conversation that devolved—technologically and ideologically—into quasi-tragicomic farce.
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Destination art
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This is the first critical guide to the two hundred most important modern and contemporary art sites around the world. Designed for the international art tourist as a critical reference, "Destination Art" provides an accessible chronological survey of important large-scale and public works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Encompassing land and environmental(...)
Destination art
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This is the first critical guide to the two hundred most important modern and contemporary art sites around the world. Designed for the international art tourist as a critical reference, "Destination Art" provides an accessible chronological survey of important large-scale and public works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Encompassing land and environmental works, sculpture parks, architectural follies, site-specific installations, and entire towns turned over to the display of art, this book chronicles works that have achieved near-mythical status since they were created. Among the artists included are Henri Matisse, Antoni Gaudí, Jean Tinguely, Constantin Brancusi, James Turrell, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Antony Gormley. The book provides visitor information, including hours and admission fees, directions, contact details and websites, and further reading. Fifty art destinations are featured in substantial essays, with accounts of their histories and descriptions of their sites.
Land Art
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Sommaire : Pratiquement nature, par David Leatherbarrow ; Le Pittoresque généralisé ou de l’unité critique de la fabrique , par Philippe Nys ; Vers un paysage plus global : un “habitat-territoire”, par Bernard Lassus ; Parc d’Alboran, Almería, Espagne, par José Luis Daroca , Pilar Mencia ; Aménagements paysagers, Aéroport de Schiphol, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, West 8 ; Parc(...)
L'architecture d'aujourd'hui 363 : paysages landscapes
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Sommaire : Pratiquement nature, par David Leatherbarrow ; Le Pittoresque généralisé ou de l’unité critique de la fabrique , par Philippe Nys ; Vers un paysage plus global : un “habitat-territoire”, par Bernard Lassus ; Parc d’Alboran, Almería, Espagne, par José Luis Daroca , Pilar Mencia ; Aménagements paysagers, Aéroport de Schiphol, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, West 8 ; Parc mfo à Oerlikon, Zürich, Suisse, Burckhardt + Partner ; Esplanade du Forum des cultures, Barcelone, Espagne, Foreign Office Architects (foa ; Aménagements paysagers. Passeig de Garcia Faria, Barcelone, Espagne, Ravetllat , Ribas ; Parc et couverture partielle. Gran Via, Barcelone, Espagne, Fiol, Arriola ; Ile flottante. Manhattan, New York, Etats-Unis, Robert Smithson ; Aménagements paysagers. autoroute sud, Vienne, Autriche, Anna Detzlhofer, Max Rieder ; Observatoire. Nieuw-Terbregge, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas, Groupe Observatorium ; Otium Leinewijk, installation. Hoogezand, Groningue, Pays-Bas, Groupe Observatorium ; Parc de Cabecera, Valence, Espagne, Correl, De Miguel, Muñoz ; Parc de la Fontsanta. Sant Joan Despí, Catalogne, Espagne, Manuel Ruisanchez ; Aménagement littoral. Plage du Ponant, Benidorm, Espagne, Carlos Ferrater. Portfolio : Paysages de l’atome par Mathilde Roman.
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Breuer was extremely prolific and produced a wide-ranging output that extends from large-scale projects to furniture. A major part of his oeuvre consists of single-family dwellings, many of which are found in the United States. This issue of "2G" brings together a selection of his more important houses: from the first examples at the end of the 1930s, in which (...)
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June 2001, Barcelona
2G 17 : Marcel Breuer, American houses
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Breuer was extremely prolific and produced a wide-ranging output that extends from large-scale projects to furniture. A major part of his oeuvre consists of single-family dwellings, many of which are found in the United States. This issue of "2G" brings together a selection of his more important houses: from the first examples at the end of the 1930s, in which the influence of the Bauhaus is still very strong, to those of the 1960s in which Breuer has encountered his own highly original language. Works and projects include: Hagerty House, Cohasset; Breuer I House, Lincoln; Robinson House, Williamstown; Breuer II House, New Canaan; Breuer Cottage, Wellfleet; Kepes Cottage, Wellfleet; Stillman Beach Cottage, Wellfleet; Wise Cottage, Wellfleet; Exhibition House in the MOMA Garden; Pocantico, Tarrytown; Clark House, Orange; Pack House, Scarsdale; Grieco House, Andover; Hooper House, Baltimore; Starkey House, Duluth; Stillman II House, Lichfield. The nexus section comprises texts by Peter Smithson, Marcel, Breuer, Mathias Klotz, and Amy Lelyveld.
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June 2001, Barcelona
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Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the "hard" tools of construction are joined by the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions. This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking(...)
Shrinking cities, volume 2: interventions
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Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the "hard" tools of construction are joined by the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions. This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban construction, the media, performance, and art. The approaches range from artistic intercessions and self-empowerment projects to architectural and landscape interventions, and from strategies of media communication and city marketing to new legal regulations and utopian designs. A series of essays provides a critical discussion of both successful and failed projects of recent decades from such countries as the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, and Japan. Projects featured (selection): William Alsop, Crimson, Jeremy Deller, Gordon Matta-Clark, OMA, Cedric Price, Andreas Siekmann, Robert Smithson, Superflex, O. M. Ungers
Urban Theory
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In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s. Three years of research have brought 146 surviving(...)
Patricia Johanson's House & Gardens commission: reconstruction of modernity
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In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s. Three years of research have brought 146 surviving drawings to light. They demonstrate the intimate progress of the artist’s engagement with nature in her quest for an art concerned with ethical relationships between humans and the natural world. Shuttling between the West and the East, and the contemporary and the historical, Johanson takes equal distances from earthworks created by her peer artists such as Robert Smithson, and the environmentalism advocated by landscape architects following Ian McHarg. Her vision of a new modernity is still significant today. The book is divided into 2 volumes, and includes a preface by Stephen Bann and a catalogue of 146 original garden proposals.
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural(...)
Outdoor domesticity: Houses and trees
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural programs, and as the result of an increasing sensibility towards environmental aspects and the landscape. The first part of this publication is to present a collection of exemplary five houses that evinced explicit relationships with pre-existing trees. The five twentieth century projects are: La Casa (B. Rudofsky, 1969), Cottage Caesar (M. Breuer, 1951), Ville La Roche (Le Corbusier & P. Jeanneret, 1923), Villa Pepa (J. Navarro Baldeweg, 1994) and Hexenhaus (A. & P. Smithson, 1984-2002). The second part of the book contributes three theoretical concerns for the contemporary project, those ones which are established in the process, with respect to time, place and outdoor domesticity in modern western housing.
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