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Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it begins with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2011
Gilbert & George: Art titles 1969-2010 in alphabetical order
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Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it begins with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is identified with an acronym indicating its format.
Contemporary Art Monographs
This is tomorrow
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This Is Tomorrow was a seminal exhibition of art, architecture, music and graphic design that took place at London's Whitechapel Gallery in August 1956. At its core was a room given over to the Independent Group, the proto-Pop collective comprised of (at various stages) the theorists Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, photographer Nigel Henderson and the artists Eduardo(...)
This is tomorrow
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This Is Tomorrow was a seminal exhibition of art, architecture, music and graphic design that took place at London's Whitechapel Gallery in August 1956. At its core was a room given over to the Independent Group, the proto-Pop collective comprised of (at various stages) the theorists Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, photographer Nigel Henderson and the artists Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, William Turnbull and John McHale. The Independent Group's room premiered works of Op art alongside film posters, collages, murals, films and a jukebox, and was Britain's introduction to the phenomenon later named Pop. The spiralbound catalogue for This Is Tomorrow was designed by Edward Wright and published by Lund Humphries; out of print since 1957, it has since become a much sought-after rarity and a classic of graphic design and postwar visual culture. This facsimile edition is published for the Whitechapel's 2010-11 reconstruction of the 1956 show.
Art Periods and Styles
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The postwar ascent of the curator as both cultural broker and creative participant in the work of art has seen the discipline acquire a brief but rich history of its own. Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents unites curatorial studies with the increasingly debated subject of "the educational turn." Edited by Kitty Scott, whose own career as a(...)
Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial education and its discontents
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The postwar ascent of the curator as both cultural broker and creative participant in the work of art has seen the discipline acquire a brief but rich history of its own. Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents unites curatorial studies with the increasingly debated subject of "the educational turn." Edited by Kitty Scott, whose own career as a curator of contemporary art has taken her from the National Gallery in Ottawa to the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Banff Centre in Alberta, it presents a collection of essays that explores the education and formation of curators. Writings on curatorial pedagogy by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Lourdes Morales offer an overview of recent thought on curatorial pedagogy, elucidating, defining and building on current debates surrounding this subject.
Museology
Atlas of transformation
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What happens to a country when it undergoes change on a revolutionary scale? And how does one grasp such monumental transformation? In over 200 entries, the Atlas of Transformation offers a massive glossary of key terms for the effects and consequences of social political change, based on the transformations seen over the past two decades in Eastern Europe. Including(...)
Atlas of transformation
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What happens to a country when it undergoes change on a revolutionary scale? And how does one grasp such monumental transformation? In over 200 entries, the Atlas of Transformation offers a massive glossary of key terms for the effects and consequences of social political change, based on the transformations seen over the past two decades in Eastern Europe. Including relevant historical texts alongside new writing, among the authors contributing to the Atlas are Timothy Garton Ash, Hakim Bey, Homi K. Bhabha, Deleuze and Guattari, Boris Groys, Karl Holmqvist, Frederic Jameson, Franz Kafka and Slavoj Zizek.
Critical Theory
(Re)Designing nature
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(Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and presentation of nature in cities. Inspiring its readers to contemplate our current relationship to nature, it animates debates about ecologically sustainable and aesthetically intelligent environmental design. In particular, the twin phenomena of rapidly shrinking cities and rapidly(...)
Urban Landscapes
April 2011
(Re)Designing nature
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(Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and presentation of nature in cities. Inspiring its readers to contemplate our current relationship to nature, it animates debates about ecologically sustainable and aesthetically intelligent environmental design. In particular, the twin phenomena of rapidly shrinking cities and rapidly expanding megacities call for new models for the intercession and housing of urban nature. Artists and landscape architects offer proposals for alternative uses of empty city lots and old industrial areas, designing parasitical gardens in the middle of the city or utopian visions for a greater symbiosis of culture and nature.
Urban Landscapes
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This volume is devoted to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona designed by American architect Richard Meier. Offering detailed information on every aspect of the project, this publication features a full-page photographic essay by renowned Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué, as well as an in-depth interview with Meier.
Richard Meier: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA
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This volume is devoted to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona designed by American architect Richard Meier. Offering detailed information on every aspect of the project, this publication features a full-page photographic essay by renowned Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué, as well as an in-depth interview with Meier.
Architecture Monographs
Low cost design, vol. 1
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This publication is based on the principle that the most innovative design ideas are probably not the ones passing through patent offices. Functioning as a visual dictionary of everyday ingenuity and self-sufficiency, and spanning Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, it catalogues inspiring examples of the creative repurposing of detritus, and of overlooked land, by(...)
Low cost design, vol. 1
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This publication is based on the principle that the most innovative design ideas are probably not the ones passing through patent offices. Functioning as a visual dictionary of everyday ingenuity and self-sufficiency, and spanning Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, it catalogues inspiring examples of the creative repurposing of detritus, and of overlooked land, by ordinary people — whether for reasons of subsistence, politics or sheer artistry. Thus, a flowerpot and a section of a fence become an improvised barbeque; a tree stump on a sidewalk is carved into a makeshift one-seater. The innovations are classified as either "objects" or "actions," demonstrating a decentralized but palpable European movement conscious of avoiding waste. The book features an essay by the artist and designer Daniele Pario Perra, who in 2001 began the Design on the Cheap database.
Industrial Design
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2011
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Thorsten Passfeld: It's me again
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
Inigio Manglano-Ovalle: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
Contemporary Art Monographs