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This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow; and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 30-September 23, 2012.
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Skyscraper: Art and architecture against gravity
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This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; curated by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow; and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 30-September 23, 2012.
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
August 2008, New York
Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
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As Vanderbilt shows, driving is a provocatively revealing prism for examining how our minds work and the ways in which we interact with one another. Tom Vanderbilt writes about design, technology, science, and culture, for "Wired", "Slate", "Artforum", and "The New York Times", and was a research fellow at the CCA in fall 2008.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Drawing a tree
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Drawing a tree One of my very old friends from the country, a certain Leonardo, born in a small village near Florence, Vinci (postal code 50059), was a very curious fellow. He would spend hours observing the plants... The books in the new Workshop series describe different working techniques, from educational to explanatory pamphlets and 'poetic'play...
Drawing a tree
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Drawing a tree One of my very old friends from the country, a certain Leonardo, born in a small village near Florence, Vinci (postal code 50059), was a very curious fellow. He would spend hours observing the plants... The books in the new Workshop series describe different working techniques, from educational to explanatory pamphlets and 'poetic'play...
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This book documents the life and work of Lewis Larsson and his fellow colleagues of the American Colony Photographers group who together formed part of a Swedish nonconformist religious sect that emigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century. Together they created over a period of 50 years one of the world's finest collections of photographs from Palestine and the(...)
The dream of Jerusalem : Lewis Larsson and the American colony photographers
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This book documents the life and work of Lewis Larsson and his fellow colleagues of the American Colony Photographers group who together formed part of a Swedish nonconformist religious sect that emigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century. Together they created over a period of 50 years one of the world's finest collections of photographs from Palestine and the Middle-East from that period.
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237 pages ; 21 cm.
London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007.
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London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007.
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1,562 items, 3.25 l.m. of textual records., Arranged by series and files.
Guy Desbarats fonds, 1947-1998.
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The return of the political
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An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world. Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her previous books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau);(...)
The return of the political
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An original and powerful statement which enables us to close the widening gap between liberal democracy and the events of a disordered world. Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her previous books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.
Critical Theory
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Emil Ruder was a typographer and graphic designer who played a key role in the development of modern graphic design in the 1940s and 50s in Basel, Switzerland. It is the first collection on a worldwide level of this towering figure in Swiss graphic design showcasing his art, influence, and legacy in the world of typography and beyond. ''Ruder typography Ruder philosophy''(...)
Ruder typography Ruder philosophy
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Emil Ruder was a typographer and graphic designer who played a key role in the development of modern graphic design in the 1940s and 50s in Basel, Switzerland. It is the first collection on a worldwide level of this towering figure in Swiss graphic design showcasing his art, influence, and legacy in the world of typography and beyond. ''Ruder typography Ruder philosophy'' contains essays, discussions, and commentary from fellow designers, typographers, and artists.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns,(...)
On the ground : observations from Harvard
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Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting makes you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will art save your city? In 'On the Ground: Observations from Harvard' writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues in land use and planning as practiced in the US. 'On the Ground' is a selection of the columns, essays and interwiews she wrote as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduated School Design.
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I paint what I want to see
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How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive(...)
I paint what I want to see
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How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.
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