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Writing about The Museum of Modern Art's monumental and critically acclaimed 2005 Lee Friedlander retrospective, Richard Lacayo of Time magazine said: "If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like, the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling, and sheer, sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by, then Friedlander is one of the most important(...)
Friedlander The Museum of Modern Art
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Writing about The Museum of Modern Art's monumental and critically acclaimed 2005 Lee Friedlander retrospective, Richard Lacayo of Time magazine said: "If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like, the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling, and sheer, sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by, then Friedlander is one of the most important American artists of any kind since World War II Friedlander loves the muchness of the world. He loves the haphazard multitude of things that can pop up in every picture--street signs, sunbeams, bits of roofline, a jagged shadow--all colliding and contradicting one another. In his breezy but very acute introduction to the show's catalogue, Peter Galassi, MoMA's chief curator of photography, gets it just right when he says some of Friedlander's pictures give you the impression that 'the physical world had been broken into fragments and reconstituted under pressure at three times its original density.'" Now available for the first time, the paperback edition of this definitive, comprehensive volume is being published to coincide with the traveling retrospective's stop in San Francisco at SFMOMA.
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“Architecture & Arts” documents the innovations brought about by painters, sculptors, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers, as well as creators from the widest variety of artistic circles and expressive styles, into the field of architecture. At the same time, it reveals the digressions of architects into the visual arts, a discipline that has shared with(...)
Architecture & arts 1900 /2004 : a century of creative projects in building, design, cinema, painting, sculpture
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“Architecture & Arts” documents the innovations brought about by painters, sculptors, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers, as well as creators from the widest variety of artistic circles and expressive styles, into the field of architecture. At the same time, it reveals the digressions of architects into the visual arts, a discipline that has shared with architecture a common project of a radical, at times visionary, aesthetic transformation of reality. The volume includes works by Malevich, Cartier-Bresson, Steichen, Terragni, Depero, Fritz Lang, Le Corbusier, Gehry, Rossi, Piano, and Oldenburg, to name a few. This richly illustrated volume offers a complete overview of architects and artists from the historic avant-gardes (Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Neoplasticism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the modern movements until the postwar period) to the contemporary world, starting from Informal-Spatialist work and continuing with Situationism, Brutalism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Post modernism to the present day.
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February 2005, Milan
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Historienne de l’art passionnée et passionnante, éternelle curieuse, l’autrice de ce livre a compilé l’histoire de 50 objets du quotidien, ou plus insolites. Elle retrace ainsi l’origine, l’évolution et le symbolisme de chacune de ces créations humaines, de la carte à jouer au flacon de parfum, du godemichet aux œufs de Pâques. Au fil des pièces d’une maison que nous(...)
L'art de l'objet : Une histoire culturelle de notre quotidien
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Historienne de l’art passionnée et passionnante, éternelle curieuse, l’autrice de ce livre a compilé l’histoire de 50 objets du quotidien, ou plus insolites. Elle retrace ainsi l’origine, l’évolution et le symbolisme de chacune de ces créations humaines, de la carte à jouer au flacon de parfum, du godemichet aux œufs de Pâques. Au fil des pièces d’une maison que nous traversons quotidiennement, ce livre, à la maquette colorée et pop, propose des histoires culturelles d’objets avec lesquels nous cohabitons sans véritablement les connaître. Divisé en 10 chapitres qui sont autant d’espaces d’une maison imaginaire, et illustré par des photographies d’archives, des images contemporaines et des dessins inédits, ce livre ravira tous les amateurs de design, d’art, d’histoire et de récits en tout genre.
Design Theory
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"If it all came down to one piece of music, what would you choose? How would you justify your choice? On live radio? These are the questions Julius Nil asked every other Sunday for a year on London's Resonance FM, before going to work at Yale under his given name, Seth Kim-Cohen. Includes 12 conversations with influential figures from classical, jazz, rock, pop, cultural(...)
One reason to live : conversations about music with Julius Nil
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"If it all came down to one piece of music, what would you choose? How would you justify your choice? On live radio? These are the questions Julius Nil asked every other Sunday for a year on London's Resonance FM, before going to work at Yale under his given name, Seth Kim-Cohen. Includes 12 conversations with influential figures from classical, jazz, rock, pop, cultural theory, philosophy and the burgeoning field of sound art."
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Archigram: The magazine
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Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking(...)
Archigram: The magazine
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Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British collective Archigram was the epitome of 1960s avant-garde architecture. Their self-published, lo-fi but materially ingenious magazine Archigram, begun in 1961, announced their ideas for such visionary concepts as "Walking City," "Plug-In City" and "Instant City." It also served to connect the international avant-garde of the 1960s. Archigram forged links with the Metabolists in Japan, Frei Otto, Utopie and Haus-Rucker-Co in Europe, and Buckminster Fuller in the US. They were also championed by critics such as Charles Jencks and Reyner Banham, who brought Archigram's famous fourth pop-up issue to the US in 1966. Today "Archigram" is one of the rarest major small-press publications of the 1960s, with individual issues selling for a minimum of $600.
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The autobiography of a snake
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This is the never-before-published story of a snake trying to make it in the world of high society, strongly suggested to be a stand-in for Warhol himself. The snake’s tongue-in-cheek observations as he slithers from adorning Jackie Kennedy’s boots to embellishing Coco Chanel’s shirt will delight the sophisticated fashion crowd. But the stars of the show are Warhol’s(...)
The autobiography of a snake
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This is the never-before-published story of a snake trying to make it in the world of high society, strongly suggested to be a stand-in for Warhol himself. The snake’s tongue-in-cheek observations as he slithers from adorning Jackie Kennedy’s boots to embellishing Coco Chanel’s shirt will delight the sophisticated fashion crowd. But the stars of the show are Warhol’s whimsical illustrations, revivified with a colour scheme inspired by his iconic Pop Art.
Illustration
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation(...)
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Space-age aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation informed by Cold War politics and acted out in an expansive variety of media, from the picture press to comic books.
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at(...)
Alexander Girard: a designers universe
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at the Vitra Design Museum. The book presents the oeuvre of the multitalented designer in all its facets, while offering the first scholarly, critical examination of his work.
Design Monographs
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2005, Ottawa
Les années soixante au Canada
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et minimalisme, pour ne nommer quelques nouveaux courants de l'époque. Cette publication rappelle les expressions artistiques qui abondaient au Canada durant cette décennie : les expériences alliant art et technologie, l'influence de puissants médias de masse, toiles modernistes de pointe, les débuts de l'art conceptuel et photographique, ainsi que les premières créations de films et vidéos expérimentaux.
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January 2005, Ottawa
Architecture in Canada
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"SuperDesign" charts the Italian Radicals’ experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on design today. Radical Design was launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy in the mid-1960s. What started as a youthful rally against the establishment and a rejection of design norms became a movement that brought together(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
October 2017
Superdesign: Italian radical design 1965-1975
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"SuperDesign" charts the Italian Radicals’ experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on design today. Radical Design was launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy in the mid-1960s. What started as a youthful rally against the establishment and a rejection of design norms became a movement that brought together avant-garde thinkers and makers across the country.Through furniture and objects as well as public innovations, the Radicals projected design’s new era as equal parts Pop Art, play, Surrealism, and futurism. Told through exclusive interviews, unreleased photographs, original drawings and artwork unearthed from personal archives, "SuperDesign" explores this period of design that played out against the era’s social and political turmoil.
Design, Periods and Styles