Desire lines
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Un trajet en métro, en taxi, un moment à la table d’un café : chaque instant libre, chaque pause ou temps mort est l’occasion pour l'auteur de tracer, au feutre ou au stylo, une impression fugitive, une scène captée sur le vif, un paysage qui évolue… Si desire lines désigne en anglais le plus court chemin, l’expression est ici synonyme d’instants capturés puis restitués,(...)
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Un trajet en métro, en taxi, un moment à la table d’un café : chaque instant libre, chaque pause ou temps mort est l’occasion pour l'auteur de tracer, au feutre ou au stylo, une impression fugitive, une scène captée sur le vif, un paysage qui évolue… Si desire lines désigne en anglais le plus court chemin, l’expression est ici synonyme d’instants capturés puis restitués, dans des carnets, en autant de croquis au trait rapide, urgent. Au gré de ces esquisses se révèlent des parcours, des itinéraires, des empreintes de voyages : chemins buissonniers, tracés au fil des pas, chemins hors plan, chemins pressés qui parlent de la ville et disent la campagne. De la manière dont elles se font et se défont, de Sébastopol à Hong Kong, de la Volga à New York, de Ras el-Barr sur le delta du Nil au Cap Ferret entre bassin d’Arcachon et océan, du Cambodge à la Finlande, de SaintLouis à Stockholm, de Jaipur à Paris, et en Italie bien sûr ; vues du ciel, vues du sol.
Architectural Drawing
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A publication by Cafe Royal Books and Douglas Corrance documenting NYC between the 70s and 80s.
Douglas Corrance: New York 1970s-1980s
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A publication by Cafe Royal Books and Douglas Corrance documenting NYC between the 70s and 80s.
Photography monographs
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2004, Ostfildern
Air architecture : Yves Klein
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an "architecture of air" composed of walls and roofs of air-as represented, for example, in the idea of the "Temple of the Elements" with fountains of water and fire and a café protected against the rain only by air currents. Klein associated this idea with a philosophy of optimism devoted to the creation of a paradise on earth, a Garden of Eden in which human beings would be free to pursue their own interests. The publication is the first book devoted exclusively to this aspect of Yves Klein's art. It includes reproductions of drawings and other works as well as essays and lectures on the subject. Additional articles by other authors emphasize the significance of Klein's work to the theme of the immaterial.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Le monde comme projet
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Depuis son décès accidentel en 1991, le graphiste allemand Otl Aicher n’a cessé de faire couler l’encre. Quelques mois avant de disparaître, il compila ses principaux écrits dans un ouvrage intitulé Die welt als entwurf (1992) – Le monde comme projet. Le designer, célèbre pour avoir conçu entre autre l’identité des Jeux Olympiques de Munich en 1972, celle de la Lufthansa(...)
Le monde comme projet
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Depuis son décès accidentel en 1991, le graphiste allemand Otl Aicher n’a cessé de faire couler l’encre. Quelques mois avant de disparaître, il compila ses principaux écrits dans un ouvrage intitulé Die welt als entwurf (1992) – Le monde comme projet. Le designer, célèbre pour avoir conçu entre autre l’identité des Jeux Olympiques de Munich en 1972, celle de la Lufthansa et le caractère typographique Rotis, rappelle ainsi la définition qu’il donnait au modernisme et, par là même, explicite sa haine de l’univers postmoderne dans lequel «?les musées deviennent des parts de tartes et les machines à café des colonnes cannelées?». À travers les dix-huit essais réunis ici Aicher revient sur ses expériences pédagogiques et distingue avec précision l’école d’Ulm du Bauhaus. Il salue le travail de fameux architectes (Foster et Piano notamment) et confrères, designers «?moralistes?» dans le bon sens du terme, tels Hans Gugelot et Charles Eames. Enfin, il dessine les contours d’une pratique créative, le design graphique, dont l’éthique défie les cloisonnements disciplinaires établis. Il s’affirme ainsi comme un humaniste convaincu que le design abordé et pratiqué comme projet peut changer notre société.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations(...)
Gardens
January 1900, Paris
Les jardins du commerce équitable
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations et dans le même temps conserver les espaces naturels, protéger la biodiversité, faire face aux enjeux écologiques liés au développement industriel et à l'urbanisation... En y associant les populations paysannes héritières de savoirs et de savoir-faire respectueux des équilibres écologiques, répond le commerce équitable. Car l'agriculture paysanne est, par son histoire, porteuse d'une gestion des territoires qui fonde la diversité agricole, alimentaire et, ce faisant, humaine de notre planète. Ce livre permet de découvrir le terrain où s'exerce chaque jour les effets du commerce équitable, ces jardins du monde où sont cultivés les produits, cacao, café, thé, sucre, fruits, épices, riz, fonio, quinoa... par des groupements de petits producteurs. Ce livre est une illustration de la richesse, de la beauté, de la diversité et aussi de la fragilité d'un monde qu'il s'agit de préserver.
Gardens
All citizens
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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her(...)
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In 2006, two artists fled the high cost of living in Vancouver and moved to a place where they knew absolutely nobody, Bruno, Saskatchewan, population 500. They set up a storefront building in which they housed their own unique brand of café / art shop / community centre / music venue called All Citizens from 2007-2011. McCarroll kept a blog called Going Rural of her travels and experiences moving and setting up shop. This blog (text and photographs) forms a significant chapter of the All Citizens art book and serves as an introduction to Saara Liinamaa’s essay on rural interventions. The documentation (in text, interviews, and photographs) of the artistic practice of three local senior women formed McCarroll’s MFA thesis project in the Documentary Media Program at Ryerson and constitutes another significant chapter. Cartoonist David Collier visits one of these women in Bruno and provides a comic essay in his own style. Also contributing is artist Jason McLean. But the heart of the All Citizens project was the store itself, a meeting place, shop, cultural centre, music venue and all things in between. It was the ultimate culmination of a DIY aesthetic forged onto a rural landscape. Includes Bonus CD: Daniel, Fred, and Julie: Live at All Citizens.
Canadian art
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2003, Ostfildern-Ruit
Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio : Building an island, Mur Island, Graz/Austria
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Vito Acconci's Mur Island in Graz forges a closer bond between life on the river and in the two halves of the city. The book introduces the artist-architect and his project. It seems as if a UFO has landed in the middle of Graz: an organic form, evoking a half shell or a snail's shell, is floating on the Mur river as an artificial island, connected by piers to both river banks. The steel construction was designed by the American-born architect-artist Vito Acconci, based on the idea of Robert Punkenhofer, a native of Graz, and realized within the scope of Graz 2003: Kulturhauptstadt Europas. Acconci Island, consisting of various interlocking surfaces with flowing transitions, houses an amphitheatre, a café and a playground. Large parts of its outer stainless-steel skin reflect the city; acrylic fibre, glass, steel grids and peepholes provide a view onto the water and the banks, while the transparent materials make the building look weightless. The result is a breathtaking, technically sophisticated avant-garde piece of architecture that refuses categorization. The book documents the different stages of the design, and places sketches and computer simulations next to remarkable photographs of models as well as shots of the finished island. An interview with Vito Acconci and a presentation of the diverse work by the Acconci Studio round off the book.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti(...)
Devotion
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A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. "The why I write" series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
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71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm.
Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2016], ©2016
Ivano Gianola : LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura / text, Frank R. Werner ; photographs, Christian Richters ; translation into English, Friedrich Ragette ; editor, Axel Menges.
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2005, Durham, North Carolina
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University : Rafael Vinoly Architects
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When architect Rafael Vinoly was commissioned to design a major new centre for the arts at Duke University, he set about creating his first museum in North America and the first stand-alone museum in Duke's eighty-year history. The resulting 65,000-square-foot building has changed the cultural landscape of the university and indeed the Southeast. This book documents the genesis and design of the new museum, which opens on October 2, 2005. The building is named in honor of the family of Raymond D. Nasher, an internationally prominent art collector who graduated from Duke in 1943. The brilliant core of the Nasher at Duke is a 13,000-square-foot glass and steel canopy rising to a height of 45 feet above the central gallery space. The faceted roof soars above the irregular pentagonal great hall, where five concrete pavilions fan out at different angles. The pavilions will house three large gallery spaces, an auditorium, offices, university and community classrooms, a museum shop, and a café with outdoor seating overlooking a sculpture garden. Set in the forest on Duke's campus, the museum's full-height glass walls and green slate floor connect the pavilions and further blur the division between building and nature. With an essay by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton, a design statement by architect Rafael Vinoly, a foreword by museum namesake Raymond D. Nasher, and photographs by Brad Feinknopf and Jerry Blow, this book documents the building that will become a cornerstone for cultural activities for the university and the public.
Architecture Monographs