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A new edition of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau. All these form the essential background to the work of the early Modernists, with their(...)
Pioneers of modern design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius
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A new edition of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau. All these form the essential background to the work of the early Modernists, with their rejection of ornament, their use of new materials and their commitment to "utility" and the machine age. Pevsner looks at the early masters of the movement, such as Voysey and Rennie Mackintosh in Britain; Sullivan and Lloyd Wright in America; and Loos and Wagner in Vienna, ending in 1914, with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement representing design's most radical break with the past.
Design Theory
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Internationally acclaimed photographer Arnaud Maggs is best known for detailed, grid-like portrait studies that betray a stark intimacy. These include 64 Portrait Studies (1978) and 48 Views (1981-83), a series that included such Canadian celebrities as Yousuf Karsh and Leonard Cohen. In 1973 after a career as a graphic designer (Maggs designed the album cover for Jazz at(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
May 2012
Arnaud Maggs : identification
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Internationally acclaimed photographer Arnaud Maggs is best known for detailed, grid-like portrait studies that betray a stark intimacy. These include 64 Portrait Studies (1978) and 48 Views (1981-83), a series that included such Canadian celebrities as Yousuf Karsh and Leonard Cohen. In 1973 after a career as a graphic designer (Maggs designed the album cover for Jazz at Massey Hall released by Charles Mingus in 1955), Arnaud Maggs decided to become a visual artist at the age of 47. For nearly 40 years his work has been marked by questions of mortality and reverberates with historical and anthropological meaning. This first career-overview showcases his monumental photographic installations, documentation of found ephemera, books, typography, classification systems and diagrammatic drawings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Music for The Memphis Group.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2014.
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144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
Old buildings, new designs : architectural transformations / Charles Bloszies.
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The artist & the garden
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This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognized for his(...)
The artist & the garden
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This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early nineteenth century, many of which are unknown. Sir Roy Strong, widely recognized for his expertise in both art history and garden history, surveys garden pictures ranging from Elizabethan miniatures to eighteenth-century alfresco conversation pieces, from suites of paintings of a single garden to amateur watercolors. He inquires into the origin of the English garden picture genre, its development prior to the invention of photography, its greatest exponents, its reliability as historical evidence of actual gardens, and its place within the larger European tradition of picturing the garden. The English, Strong observes, were slow in picturing the reality of their gardens. Until well into the Stuart age, the garden in art served as a symbol, and only gradually did this give way to the impulse to record the facts of contemporary garden-making. In the backgrounds of portraits of Jacobean and Caroline garden owners, the garden is no longer an emblem; it becomes instead a document demonstrating the owners' pride in their gardens made in the new Renaissance manner. By the Georgian age the garden has moved from the back to the foreground of pictures, and whole families place themselves amid the glory of their self-fashioned landscapes. Both house and garden at this point assume a separate identity, each calling for an individual record. And by the nineteenth century, the author shows, the garden detaches itself from owner and house to be recorded for its own sake, as a single image at first, and later in a series. With some 350 fully annotated illustrations, this lovely book offers a unique record of three hundred years of English gardens and what they meant to those who owned and portrayed them.
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October 2000, New Haven
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Paris : L'Harmattan, 2016., ©2016
La mise en tourisme des territoires dans le monde arabe / sous la direction de Boualem Kadri et Djamal Benhacine.
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Chico, CA ; Edinburgh : AK Press, [2025], ©2025
Dismantling the master's clock : on race, space, and time / Rasheedah Phillips.
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Chico, CA ; Edinburgh : AK Press, [2025], ©2025
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x, 410 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portrait ; 25 cm.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022., ©2022
Medieval art, architecture and archaeology in Cambridge : college, church and city / edited by Gabriel Byng and Helen Lunnon.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022., ©2022
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm
[Paris] : Manuella, [2019], ©2019
IP_a : Ignacio Prego, Rémi Souleau architectes / direction de l'ouvrage, Ignacio Prego et Nicolas Rouvière ; texte, Jean-Marie Durand.
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[Paris] : Manuella, [2019], ©2019
The Polaroid book
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In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton,(...)
Theory of Photography
April 2005, Cologne
The Polaroid book
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In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. "The Polaroid Book", a survey of this remarkable collection, pays tribute to a medium that defies the digital age and remains a favourite among artists for its quirky look and instantly gratifying, one-of-kind images. The book includes over 400 works from the Polaroid Collections, an essay by Barbara Hitchcock illuminating the beginnings and history of the collection, and a technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras.
Theory of Photography