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The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes – which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane – set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest(...)
Cook's Camden: the making of modern housing
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The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes – which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane – set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day.
Architecture Monographs
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Une incursion dans un champ majeur du travail de Christina Kubisch, pionnière des arts sonores, qui explore depuis les années 1970 le potentiel sonore des champs électromagnétiques générés par notre environnement urbain et technologique.// An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of(...)
Inaudible, invisible : Une exploration des œuvres de Christina Kubisch
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Une incursion dans un champ majeur du travail de Christina Kubisch, pionnière des arts sonores, qui explore depuis les années 1970 le potentiel sonore des champs électromagnétiques générés par notre environnement urbain et technologique.// An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
Acoustics
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Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It is a(...)
Total refusal. Refus Global: the complete manifest
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Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It is a must read for anyone interested in modernism or contemporary Canadian history.
Art Theory
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From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created(...)
Tremaine houses: one family's patronage of domestic architecture in midcentury America
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From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern movement.
Architectural Theory
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This monograph is the most up-to-date and definitive book on the work of Jeff Wall, the artist responsible for bringing photography to the forefront of contemporary art since the late 1970s. It is a complete career retrospective that includes four essays by art historians such as Mark Lewis and Boris Groys, interviews with and writings by the artist, and full-colour(...)
Jeff Wall : the complete edition
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This monograph is the most up-to-date and definitive book on the work of Jeff Wall, the artist responsible for bringing photography to the forefront of contemporary art since the late 1970s. It is a complete career retrospective that includes four essays by art historians such as Mark Lewis and Boris Groys, interviews with and writings by the artist, and full-colour reproductions of all his artworks.
Photography monographs
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these(...)
Pride in modesty: Modernist architecture and the vernacular tradition in Italy
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Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.
Modernism
Charles Arnoldi: paper
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This survey presents the work on paper of Charles Arnoldi (born 1946), an artist based in Los Angeles. Arnoldi has been described as an artist who "draws in space" to create his assemblage works of art. Throughout his long career he has been fascinated with shape and pattern as they apply to advanced formal concerns, from his 1970s paintings made entirely of natural(...)
Charles Arnoldi: paper
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This survey presents the work on paper of Charles Arnoldi (born 1946), an artist based in Los Angeles. Arnoldi has been described as an artist who "draws in space" to create his assemblage works of art. Throughout his long career he has been fascinated with shape and pattern as they apply to advanced formal concerns, from his 1970s paintings made entirely of natural forms, to his current geometric work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
graphic materials
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1 print : b&w and col. ill. ; 13 x 97 cm. folded to 13 x 25 cm.+ 1 envelope.
Montreal : Studio Aardvark, [1967]
Panorama, Terre des Hommes, Montréal, Man and His World.
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1 print : b&w and col. ill. ; 13 x 97 cm. folded to 13 x 25 cm.+ 1 envelope.
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Montreal : Studio Aardvark, [1967]
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Michelin Bretagne.
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194 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 x 12 cm.
Paris : Pneu Michelin, ©1970.
Michelin Bretagne.
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194 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 x 12 cm.
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Paris : Pneu Michelin, ©1970.
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vi, 154 pages map on lining papers. 22 cm
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart [1970]
An intimate history of New Brunswick.
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vi, 154 pages map on lining papers. 22 cm
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Toronto, McClelland and Stewart [1970]