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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how(...)
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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how(...)
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The last of the light: about twilight
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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how the atmospheric shadows and the in-between nature of twilight has fired the imagination and generated works of incredible beauty, mystery, and romance.
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eter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from the melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings to the midnight sun of northern European summers and beyond. Taking in poets and painters, Victorians and Romans, city and countryside, and deftly combining memoir, literature, philosophy, and art history, Davidson shows how the atmospheric shadows and the in-between nature of twilight has fired the imagination and generated works of incredible beauty, mystery, and romance.
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October 2015
October 2015
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions,(...)
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions,(...)
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November 2024
November 2024
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Entangled landscapes Vol. 2: Catalunya
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions, protect the native cattle of the Albera Mountains, and trace the influence of mushroom foraging on local policy. The volume also highlights edible wild plants and seasonal recipes that reflect the rhythms of the Catalan countryside.
Entangled landscapes Vol. 2: Catalunya
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions, protect the native cattle of the Albera Mountains, and trace the influence of mushroom foraging on local policy. The volume also highlights edible wild plants and seasonal recipes that reflect the rhythms of the Catalan countryside.
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November 2024
November 2024
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Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek’s photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through(...)
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Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek’s photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through(...)
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The intimate world of Josef Sudek
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Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek’s photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through his window to his night walks through the streets of Prague and its periphery, as well as excursions into the surrounding countryside.
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Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek’s photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through his window to his night walks through the streets of Prague and its periphery, as well as excursions into the surrounding countryside.
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October 2016
October 2016
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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This book considers the contemporary house through close scrutiny of works designed by Ian MacDonald, and the ideas that are embedded within them. The architect explores boundary and illusion, and considers site and sightings in both the city and countryside to create houses that appear, disappear, and re-appear. Energetic explorations of land and considerations of(...)
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This book considers the contemporary house through close scrutiny of works designed by Ian MacDonald, and the ideas that are embedded within them. The architect explores boundary and illusion, and considers site and sightings in both the city and countryside to create houses that appear, disappear, and re-appear. Energetic explorations of land and considerations of(...)
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Canadian Architects
Canadian Architects
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March 2019
March 2019
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Boundary Sequence Illusion: Ian Macdonald architect
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This book considers the contemporary house through close scrutiny of works designed by Ian MacDonald, and the ideas that are embedded within them. The architect explores boundary and illusion, and considers site and sightings in both the city and countryside to create houses that appear, disappear, and re-appear. Energetic explorations of land and considerations of weather provide the basis for MacDonald's designs of residential spaces that capture particular views, establish sequences of movement, and make inspiring places to live in nature.
Boundary Sequence Illusion: Ian Macdonald architect
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This book considers the contemporary house through close scrutiny of works designed by Ian MacDonald, and the ideas that are embedded within them. The architect explores boundary and illusion, and considers site and sightings in both the city and countryside to create houses that appear, disappear, and re-appear. Energetic explorations of land and considerations of weather provide the basis for MacDonald's designs of residential spaces that capture particular views, establish sequences of movement, and make inspiring places to live in nature.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Canadian Architects
Canadian Architects
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Québec in mind
Québec in mind
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Quebec in mind is grouped by theme and accompanied by informative captions and descriptions; • Its major attractions, Montréal and Québec City, the St. Lawrence River Valley and its gulf, and the vast Far North. • Its rich architectural heritage, traditional, religious, and contemporary. • Its culture and savoir-vivre, the warmth and hospitality of its people,(...)
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Quebec in mind is grouped by theme and accompanied by informative captions and descriptions; • Its major attractions, Montréal and Québec City, the St. Lawrence River Valley and its gulf, and the vast Far North. • Its rich architectural heritage, traditional, religious, and contemporary. • Its culture and savoir-vivre, the warmth and hospitality of its people,(...)
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Québec in mind
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Quebec in mind is grouped by theme and accompanied by informative captions and descriptions; • Its major attractions, Montréal and Québec City, the St. Lawrence River Valley and its gulf, and the vast Far North. • Its rich architectural heritage, traditional, religious, and contemporary. • Its culture and savoir-vivre, the warmth and hospitality of its people, its unique cuisine and its many outdoor activities. • Its wilderness and wide open spaces, from the countryside to the forests, from the lakes to the mountains, from the river to the sea.
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Quebec in mind is grouped by theme and accompanied by informative captions and descriptions; • Its major attractions, Montréal and Québec City, the St. Lawrence River Valley and its gulf, and the vast Far North. • Its rich architectural heritage, traditional, religious, and contemporary. • Its culture and savoir-vivre, the warmth and hospitality of its people, its unique cuisine and its many outdoor activities. • Its wilderness and wide open spaces, from the countryside to the forests, from the lakes to the mountains, from the river to the sea.
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April 2012
April 2012
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Architecture du Québec
Architecture du Québec
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are(...)
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are(...)
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The absent hand: reimagining our American landscape
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. In this exploration of our surroundings, ''The Absent Hand'' contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention.
The absent hand: reimagining our American landscape
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This work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings- cities, countryside, and sprawl- exploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. In this exploration of our surroundings, ''The Absent Hand'' contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Journeys
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For more than three decades, renowned graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili has traveled the cities and countryside of Italy cataloging the work of sign craftsmen in whose hands type takes on new life with a tantalizing menu of styles. Classical, eclectic, or Futurist; in gold leaf, marble, brass, wood, wrought iron, enamel, ceramic, or neon; painted,(...)
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For more than three decades, renowned graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili has traveled the cities and countryside of Italy cataloging the work of sign craftsmen in whose hands type takes on new life with a tantalizing menu of styles. Classical, eclectic, or Futurist; in gold leaf, marble, brass, wood, wrought iron, enamel, ceramic, or neon; painted,(...)
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Grafica della Strada: the signs of Italy
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For more than three decades, renowned graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili has traveled the cities and countryside of Italy cataloging the work of sign craftsmen in whose hands type takes on new life with a tantalizing menu of styles. Classical, eclectic, or Futurist; in gold leaf, marble, brass, wood, wrought iron, enamel, ceramic, or neon; painted, carved, inlaid, etched, tiled, or stenciled— the creative possibilities are endless. Grafica della Strada is Fili's photographic diary of hundreds of Italy's most inventive restaurant, shop, hotel, street, and advertising signs.
Grafica della Strada: the signs of Italy
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For more than three decades, renowned graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili has traveled the cities and countryside of Italy cataloging the work of sign craftsmen in whose hands type takes on new life with a tantalizing menu of styles. Classical, eclectic, or Futurist; in gold leaf, marble, brass, wood, wrought iron, enamel, ceramic, or neon; painted, carved, inlaid, etched, tiled, or stenciled— the creative possibilities are endless. Grafica della Strada is Fili's photographic diary of hundreds of Italy's most inventive restaurant, shop, hotel, street, and advertising signs.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Signage
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Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world's best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of(...)
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Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world's best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of(...)
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October 2015
October 2015
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Art place Japan. The Echigo-Tsumari art triennale and the vision to reconnect art and nature
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Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world's best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of the Japanese countryside, with the intent of rediscovering relationships between nature, art, and humanity, forging collaborations between global artists and local communities, and connecting people to each other and the land.
Art place Japan. The Echigo-Tsumari art triennale and the vision to reconnect art and nature
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Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world's best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of the Japanese countryside, with the intent of rediscovering relationships between nature, art, and humanity, forging collaborations between global artists and local communities, and connecting people to each other and the land.
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October 2015
October 2015
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering(...)
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering(...)
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Bound for glory : America in color, 1939-43 : FSA / OWI collection, the Library of Congress
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book reveal a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white.
Bound for glory : America in color, 1939-43 : FSA / OWI collection, the Library of Congress
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The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book reveal a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white.
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September 2013
September 2013
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Photography Collections
Photography Collections
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At a time when the relationship between ‘the country’ and ‘the city’ is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams’ classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect(...)
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At a time when the relationship between ‘the country’ and ‘the city’ is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams’ classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect(...)
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Food between the country and the city: ethnographies of a changing global foodscape
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At a time when the relationship between ‘the country’ and ‘the city’ is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams’ classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained.
Food between the country and the city: ethnographies of a changing global foodscape
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At a time when the relationship between ‘the country’ and ‘the city’ is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams’ classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained.
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May 2014
May 2014
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Food
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