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At the beginning of the 1990s, Purple magazine revolutionnised fashion photography by asking artists to take the fashion shots. In this issue: Lindsay Lohan, Doug Aitken, Francis Picabia, Rob Pruitt, Phillipe Sollers, Freja Beha, and more.
Purple fashion magazine issue 13, spring/summer 2010
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Purple magazine revolutionnised fashion photography by asking artists to take the fashion shots. In this issue: Lindsay Lohan, Doug Aitken, Francis Picabia, Rob Pruitt, Phillipe Sollers, Freja Beha, and more.
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Construire l'innovation: synergies entre concepteurs et entreprises pour le project architectural
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Comment l'architecture innovante voit-elle le jour ? Comment capitaliser les synergies entre les concepteurs et les fabricants ? Et comment une entreprise telle que seele, hautement qualifiée dans le secteur de l'acier et du verre, peut répondre aux idées de conception des planificateurs ? Ce sont certaines des questions auxquelles <>, la nouvelle publication de la série(...)
Construire l'innovation: synergies entre concepteurs et entreprises pour le project architectural
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Comment l'architecture innovante voit-elle le jour ? Comment capitaliser les synergies entre les concepteurs et les fabricants ? Et comment une entreprise telle que seele, hautement qualifiée dans le secteur de l'acier et du verre, peut répondre aux idées de conception des planificateurs ? Ce sont certaines des questions auxquelles <>, la nouvelle publication de la série DETAIL development, apporte une réponse.
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Cette livraison est consacrée à la valorisation des métiers du déchet, à saisir les conditions d'acceptabilité d'espaces de déchetterie dans la ville et à penser le recyclage dès le processus de conception des oeuvres. Des architectes, des urbanistes et des artistes donnent leurs points de vue et font part de leurs expériences et créations.
L'esprit des matériaux, architecture et philosophie numéro 2- Recyclage et urbanité
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Cette livraison est consacrée à la valorisation des métiers du déchet, à saisir les conditions d'acceptabilité d'espaces de déchetterie dans la ville et à penser le recyclage dès le processus de conception des oeuvres. Des architectes, des urbanistes et des artistes donnent leurs points de vue et font part de leurs expériences et créations.
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is(...)
What's new: searching for clues: Coup de dés 4
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The Fundacio Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Des that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions. The Coup de Des forms part of the GAUDI project sponsored by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union.
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Over the course of his entire career, Robert Rauschenberg dedicated works to only five other artists: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. The practices of Tinguely and Rauschenberg intersected kinetically during a few pivotal years in the early 1960s. The two men joined forces on several more artistic projects,(...)
Robert Rauschenberg & Jean Tinguely: collaborations
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Over the course of his entire career, Robert Rauschenberg dedicated works to only five other artists: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. The practices of Tinguely and Rauschenberg intersected kinetically during a few pivotal years in the early 1960s. The two men joined forces on several more artistic projects, despite their aesthetic differences: Rauschenberg once remarked of Tinguely, "He liked mechanical things such as engines; I preferred hedonistic things such as bathtubs." This punblication documents this productive friendship.
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Contemporary Art Monographs
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In 2001 the Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert Collection was donated to Somerset House where it was displayed until its transfer to the V in 2008. The collection focuses on antique decorative items including clocks, vases, boxes, tapestries and figurines. During the first PICK ME UP graphic art fair at Somerset House artists contributed images of imagined objects based(...)
A new collection no. 1: for Somerset house
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In 2001 the Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert Collection was donated to Somerset House where it was displayed until its transfer to the V in 2008. The collection focuses on antique decorative items including clocks, vases, boxes, tapestries and figurines. During the first PICK ME UP graphic art fair at Somerset House artists contributed images of imagined objects based loosely on the themes and forms of the existing collection. The result is this surreal catalogue for a proposed replacement collection - A New Collection For Somerset House. Edition of 175.
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Demonstrating how cartography is a valuable instrument for urban research, this cartographic book reveals the impact of infrastructure on a region's development in an original manner. Bieke Cattoor has mapped and analysed the roads, railways and communications network of Belgium's Kortrijk region, overlaying them with historical and topical information. With this(...)
Figures, Infrastructures: an atlas of roads and railways
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Demonstrating how cartography is a valuable instrument for urban research, this cartographic book reveals the impact of infrastructure on a region's development in an original manner. Bieke Cattoor has mapped and analysed the roads, railways and communications network of Belgium's Kortrijk region, overlaying them with historical and topical information. With this perspective, the varied elements in an infrastructural network are clarified, and Cattoor identifies how roads and railways form related patterns and lead to nodes. The book reveals the complexity of our layered urban landscape with a new and simple representational method, and suggests how this method can be deployed in urban research as a whole.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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The university library is Fujimoto's largest building to date, and his first major institutional project. The tranquillity, clarity and structural force with which Fujimoto completed his “forest of books” is captured by photographers Daici Ano, Naoki Ishikawa and Keiko Sasaoka, complementing the building's plans and Fujimoto's textual analysis.
Sou Fujimoto: Musashino Art University Museum and Library
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The university library is Fujimoto's largest building to date, and his first major institutional project. The tranquillity, clarity and structural force with which Fujimoto completed his “forest of books” is captured by photographers Daici Ano, Naoki Ishikawa and Keiko Sasaoka, complementing the building's plans and Fujimoto's textual analysis.
Architecture Monographs
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Né à Barcelone pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, le modernisme est une version de l’Art nouveau propre à l’Espagne, voire à la Catalogne. Cet ouvrage présente les circonstances ayant mené à l’éclosion de ce style, détaille ses évolutions et dresse le portrait de ses principaux acteurs, parmi lesquels Lluís Domènech i Montaner et Antoni Gaudí. L’influence de ce(...)
Le modernisme: Gaudi, Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch
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Né à Barcelone pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, le modernisme est une version de l’Art nouveau propre à l’Espagne, voire à la Catalogne. Cet ouvrage présente les circonstances ayant mené à l’éclosion de ce style, détaille ses évolutions et dresse le portrait de ses principaux acteurs, parmi lesquels Lluís Domènech i Montaner et Antoni Gaudí. L’influence de ce style sur les arts décoratifs, la sculpture, la bijouterie et l’art des médailles, la peinture, est ensuite analysée, exemples à l’appui.
Modernism
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L’édition française du catalogue de l’exposition Eyewitness à la Royal Academy of Arts de Londres : une oeuvre de référence pour connaître l’histoire de la photographie moderne. Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy et Munkácsi ont radicalement changé le visage du photojournalisme, et de la photographie d'art entre les deux guerres. Par des essais dus aux plus grands(...)
La photographie hongroise : Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
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L’édition française du catalogue de l’exposition Eyewitness à la Royal Academy of Arts de Londres : une oeuvre de référence pour connaître l’histoire de la photographie moderne. Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy et Munkácsi ont radicalement changé le visage du photojournalisme, et de la photographie d'art entre les deux guerres. Par des essais dus aux plus grands spécialistes de ce domaine, ce superbe livre examine la manière dont l'extraordinaire activité de ces cinq personnalités ont fait de la Hongrie le centre de la photographie d'art à cette époque, et l’influence qu’ils ont exercée sur les générations de photographes ultérieures. Grâce à une superbe illustration comprenant toutes les oeuvres majeures de ces artistes, reproduisant souvent des tirages d’archives provenant des collections hongroises, ce qui permet au lecteur de percevoir le grain et la tonalité d'origine, ce livre est une référence dans l’étude de la photographie moderne.
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