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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the(...)
Artificial love : a story of machines and architecture
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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.
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June 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory
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232 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, 2003.
Vitruvius on architecture / Thomas Gordon Smith.
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José Luis Sert : 1901-1983
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The author has assembled the entire legacy of Sert’s projects and has reconstructed the profile of one of the greatest Spanish architects of the twentieth century. The book also conveys an overview of the avant-garde art and architecture movements of the time, with illustrations of important CIAM meetings, art, sculpture and architecture by artists who influenced Sert.
José Luis Sert : 1901-1983
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The author has assembled the entire legacy of Sert’s projects and has reconstructed the profile of one of the greatest Spanish architects of the twentieth century. The book also conveys an overview of the avant-garde art and architecture movements of the time, with illustrations of important CIAM meetings, art, sculpture and architecture by artists who influenced Sert.
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June 2004, Milan
Locating Sol Lewitt
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A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also included photography, artist’s books, sculpture, and printmaking. From the familiar to the underappreciated aspects of the artist’s oeuvre, this book examines the ways that LeWitt’s work was multidisciplinary,(...)
Locating Sol Lewitt
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A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also included photography, artist’s books, sculpture, and printmaking. From the familiar to the underappreciated aspects of the artist’s oeuvre, this book examines the ways that LeWitt’s work was multidisciplinary, humorous, philosophical, and even religious.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Art-Nouveau Prague
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The English version of a cultural-historical guide by a leading European expert on the Art Nouveau shows visitors to Prague around its Art-Nouveau monuments. In particular it presents the Prague Art-Nouveau architecture (for instance the Municipal House and the Wilson Railway Station) and monumental sculpture (for instance works by F. Bílek, L. Šaloun and S. Sucharda).
Art-Nouveau Prague
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The English version of a cultural-historical guide by a leading European expert on the Art Nouveau shows visitors to Prague around its Art-Nouveau monuments. In particular it presents the Prague Art-Nouveau architecture (for instance the Municipal House and the Wilson Railway Station) and monumental sculpture (for instance works by F. Bílek, L. Šaloun and S. Sucharda).
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This publication documents new work by ten international artists who tackle Modernism by engaging in a dialogue with a specific designer, architect or work from this pivotal period of the 20th century. By creating “conversions” between the past and the present, these artists look into the future through the media of video, painting, sculpture, installation and photography.
Les lendemains d'hier / Yesterday's tomorrows
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This publication documents new work by ten international artists who tackle Modernism by engaging in a dialogue with a specific designer, architect or work from this pivotal period of the 20th century. By creating “conversions” between the past and the present, these artists look into the future through the media of video, painting, sculpture, installation and photography.
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The art-architecture complex
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Hal Foster argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra.
The art-architecture complex
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Hal Foster argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra.
Architectural Theory
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In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork "Spiral Jetty" at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counter-clockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed(...)
June 2005, New York
Robert Smithson : Spiral Jetty - true fictions, false realities
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In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork "Spiral Jetty" at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counter-clockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water. The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions - a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years.
Art: an introduction
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This publication offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance on the basic character and techniques of the(...)
Art: an introduction
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This publication offers an original, clear, and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media, and to the visual arts of modernism and post-modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance on the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, on the various genres of painting in the Western tradition, and on the techniques of sculpture as they have been practiced over several millennia and across a wide range of cultures. Throughout the book, Harrison discusses the relative priorities of aesthetic appreciation and historical inquiry, and the importance of combining the two approaches. Written in a style that is at once graceful, engaging, and personal, as well as analytical and exact, this illuminating book offers an impassioned and timely defense of the importance and value of the firsthand encounter with works of art, whether in museums or in their original locations.
Art Theory
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in(...)
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March 2011, Brussels and Crakow
Cracow : rediscovering the Young Poland movement. Secession in and around Cracow
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in Polish and English.
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