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Artist's book with a great variety of personal theories from ordinary people. Beltrán drew his inspiration from micro-history, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. "Our view of the world is determined not just by what we learned about the world or(...)
The world explained : a microhistorical encyclopaedia
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Artist's book with a great variety of personal theories from ordinary people. Beltrán drew his inspiration from micro-history, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. "Our view of the world is determined not just by what we learned about the world or even what we have actually experienced", Beltrán explains. "It consist to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations".
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"Blur" presents a look at Sandra Brewster’s eponymous series, a body of work exploring memory, movement and diasporic identity. Featuring gel transfer reproductions made from photographs, the book documents the development of Brewster’s photographic techniques and themes since the series began in 2016. An essay by Pamela Edmonds explores how this work challenges(...)
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"Blur" presents a look at Sandra Brewster’s eponymous series, a body of work exploring memory, movement and diasporic identity. Featuring gel transfer reproductions made from photographs, the book documents the development of Brewster’s photographic techniques and themes since the series began in 2016. An essay by Pamela Edmonds explores how this work challenges established representations and evokes stories of migration. Blur offers a detailed examination of Brewster’s methods and her engagement with concepts of opacity, resilience and the complexities of black identity.
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions,(...)
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November 2024
Entangled landscapes Vol. 2: Catalunya
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The second issue of ''Entangled Landscapes'' explores the food culture and agricultural heritage of Catalunya through interviews, essays, and recipes. Inside, you’ll meet seed-keepers, cheesemakers, agroecological activists, and cider producers working to preserve and regenerate the region’s landscapes. Stories include efforts to revive Collserola’s farming traditions, protect the native cattle of the Albera Mountains, and trace the influence of mushroom foraging on local policy. The volume also highlights edible wild plants and seasonal recipes that reflect the rhythms of the Catalan countryside.
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The keeper
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The Keeper accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks and images. Through a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections and unusual assemblages, it offers a reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, and reveals the devotion with which artists, collectors, scholars and hoarders have(...)
The keeper
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The Keeper accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks and images. Through a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections and unusual assemblages, it offers a reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, and reveals the devotion with which artists, collectors, scholars and hoarders have created sanctuaries for endangered images and artifacts. Through works spanning the 20th century, The Keeper tells the stories of various individuals through the objects they chose to safeguard.
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A is for art museum
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In A is for Art Museum, children are encouraged to see art in new ways. Each image is accompanied by questions designed to engage their imaginations and spark lively conversations. Activities at the back of the book suggest ways for children and adults to create stories out of each picture, or to turn a trip to an art museum into a treasure hunt. Like a visit to a museum,(...)
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October 2008, Philadelphia
A is for art museum
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In A is for Art Museum, children are encouraged to see art in new ways. Each image is accompanied by questions designed to engage their imaginations and spark lively conversations. Activities at the back of the book suggest ways for children and adults to create stories out of each picture, or to turn a trip to an art museum into a treasure hunt. Like a visit to a museum, A is for Art Museum provides endless opportunities for interaction, fun, and learning.
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This new edition of the most famous of vampire stories has been illustrated by James Pyman and has been designed by John Morgan, in collaboration with the artist. Although the figure of Dracula has long loomed large in the public consciousness, for this edition, Pyman returned to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from each of the book's 27 chapters in a(...)
Dracula
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This new edition of the most famous of vampire stories has been illustrated by James Pyman and has been designed by John Morgan, in collaboration with the artist. Although the figure of Dracula has long loomed large in the public consciousness, for this edition, Pyman returned to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from each of the book's 27 chapters in a series of beautiful pencil drawings. The yellow clothbound cover echoes that of the first UK edition.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Desired Landscapes, issue 2
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'Desired Landscapes' brings together creatives, writers, tour guides, the people who write the stories of today’s cities, to share their most unique and personal findings. Here’s what we found: a postcard moment cannot be fully replicated, and iconic imageries are just the starting point of a journey. After all, destinations are plain images waiting to be transformed(...)
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May 2021
Desired Landscapes, issue 2
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'Desired Landscapes' brings together creatives, writers, tour guides, the people who write the stories of today’s cities, to share their most unique and personal findings. Here’s what we found: a postcard moment cannot be fully replicated, and iconic imageries are just the starting point of a journey. After all, destinations are plain images waiting to be transformed through one’s experiences. Issue 2 takes you to GRANDE MOTTE – PISA – KUWAIT – BERLIN – ZURICH – ATHENS – SOUR LAKE – CONCRETE ISLAND – ALEXANDRIA – HONG KONG – BARCELONA – FLORENCE
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Over 80,000 people have been jailed indefinitely, without charge or trial—this is the invisible reality of immigration detention in Canada. Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention documents the banality and violence of the architecture in contrast to the stories of daily resistance among immigration detainees. This graphic novel explores the growing industry(...)
Undocumented: the architecture of migrant detention
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Over 80,000 people have been jailed indefinitely, without charge or trial—this is the invisible reality of immigration detention in Canada. Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention documents the banality and violence of the architecture in contrast to the stories of daily resistance among immigration detainees. This graphic novel explores the growing industry of immigration detention in Canada, and questions the role of architectural design in such spaces. Undocumented is written by Tings Chak, a multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Toronto.
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256 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]
Portal to America : the Lower East Side, 1870-1925 / Allon Schoener, compiler.
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New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]
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SculptureCenter New York Consolidated 2021