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A history of Mount Healy.
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109 pages : illustrations
Hamilton, Ont. : [Women's Institutes of Ontario. Mount Healy Branch], [1970]
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Hamilton, Ont. : [Women's Institutes of Ontario. Mount Healy Branch], [1970]
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Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds. Featuring sumptuous quadratone(...)
Robert Adams: Los Angeles spring
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Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds. Featuring sumptuous quadratone plates, this greatly expanded and revised edition of a title originally published in 1986 reinvigorates one of Adams’ most influential and admired bodies of work.
Photography monographs
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronogically by decade are history's most interesting electric light, from Swan and Edison's first incandescent light bulbs to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glss shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED products. All major styles are(...)
1000 lights : 1960 to present
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronogically by decade are history's most interesting electric light, from Swan and Edison's first incandescent light bulbs to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glss shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED products. All major styles are represented here - Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern movement, De Stijl, postwar, Pop, Radical, post-modern and contemporary - in two volumes of truely illuminating works.
Interior Design
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Published on the occasion of a major international traveling exhibition organized by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (holders of the two richest Eames collections in the world), this comprehensive volume is a testament to the Eameses' belief that good design could improve people's lives. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the(...)
The work of Charles and Ray Eames : a legacy of invention
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Published on the occasion of a major international traveling exhibition organized by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (holders of the two richest Eames collections in the world), this comprehensive volume is a testament to the Eameses' belief that good design could improve people's lives. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the prolific husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames designed furniture, buildings, exhibitions, and interiors, and made films.
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Robert Adams : Prairie
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Since the 1970s, photographer Robert Adams has chronicled the changing landscape of the American West, from the growth of cities like Denver to the seemingly unconquerable openness of the Great Plains - the subject of Adams's Prairie. The first edition of "Prairie," published in 1978, is now a sought-after collector's item; this expanded volume will include all of those(...)
Robert Adams : Prairie
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Since the 1970s, photographer Robert Adams has chronicled the changing landscape of the American West, from the growth of cities like Denver to the seemingly unconquerable openness of the Great Plains - the subject of Adams's Prairie. The first edition of "Prairie," published in 1978, is now a sought-after collector's item; this expanded volume will include all of those original images, along with new photographs selected and sequenced by Adams himself, many of which are being published for the first time.
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Lois Weinberger
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Working since the 1970s, Austrian artist Lois Weinberger uses plants as starting points for public art projects, drawings and films. He sees himself as an agricultural worker, and began in the seventies with ethnopoetic works that form the basis for his artistic exploration of the spaces of nature and civilization. Rural plants and wasteland flora that touch all areas of(...)
Lois Weinberger
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Working since the 1970s, Austrian artist Lois Weinberger uses plants as starting points for public art projects, drawings and films. He sees himself as an agricultural worker, and began in the seventies with ethnopoetic works that form the basis for his artistic exploration of the spaces of nature and civilization. Rural plants and wasteland flora that touch all areas of our lives are the starting and orientation points for notes, drawings, photos, objects, texts, films, and works in public space.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Arnaud Desjardin’s The Book on Books on Artists Books is a bibliography of books, pamphlets, dealer catalogues and other printed materials on artists’ books that takes stock of a wide variety of publications on artists’ books since the early 1970s to assess the historical documentation of distribution, circulation and reception in the field. Together, these materials(...)
The book on books on artists books
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Arnaud Desjardin’s The Book on Books on Artists Books is a bibliography of books, pamphlets, dealer catalogues and other printed materials on artists’ books that takes stock of a wide variety of publications on artists’ books since the early 1970s to assess the historical documentation of distribution, circulation and reception in the field. Together, these materials constitute a unique history of the overlooked ephemera produced by the exhibiting, publishing, disseminating and collecting of artists’ books during the last 40 years.
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Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and(...)
Fantastic architecture
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Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects … have only just begun to escape from the drawing board mentality," and articulated the need for "creating space, which may or may not be functional, but which is at least relevant to the sensory environment in which we live.
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Richmond, Va. : W. J. Barrow Restoration Shop, 1970.
The Barrow method of restoring deteriorated documents / [William J. Barrow].
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Richmond, Va. : W. J. Barrow Restoration Shop, 1970.
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xvii, 369 pages illustrations 23 cm
Altona, Manitoba, Printed by D.W. Friesen [1970]
A history of Portage La Prairie and surrounding district, by Anne M. Collier.
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xvii, 369 pages illustrations 23 cm
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Altona, Manitoba, Printed by D.W. Friesen [1970]