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The nature of classical collecting : collectors and collections, 100 BCE-100 CE / Alexandra Bounia.
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xvi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Aldershot, Hampshire, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.
The nature of classical collecting : collectors and collections, 100 BCE-100 CE / Alexandra Bounia.
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xvi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Aldershot, Hampshire, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.
Panopticon
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of short essays on topical themes—politics, economics, religion, society—not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. ''There,'' writes Enzensberger, ''viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities(...)
Panopticon
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of short essays on topical themes—politics, economics, religion, society—not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. ''There,'' writes Enzensberger, ''viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities and sensational inventions.''
Literature and poetry
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Compiled in association with author and U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine Brian Dillon, this book explores objects, artworks and narratives drawn from a variety of disciplines--scientific, occult, anthropological and aesthetic--taking as its guide a sensibility that developed in Europe in the early modern period and tracing it at work in disparate historical and contemporary contexts.
Curiosity: art and the pleasures of knowing
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Compiled in association with author and U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine Brian Dillon, this book explores objects, artworks and narratives drawn from a variety of disciplines--scientific, occult, anthropological and aesthetic--taking as its guide a sensibility that developed in Europe in the early modern period and tracing it at work in disparate historical and contemporary contexts.
Art Theory
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219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 35 cm
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Westmoreland and Portland places : the history and architecture of America's premier private streets, 1888-1988 / by Julius K. Hunter ; foreword by James Neal Primm ; essay on the architecture by Esley Hamilton ; color photography by Robert Pettus and Leonard Lujan.
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219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 35 cm
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1988.
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Cette monographie entend dépasser la simple présentation des réalisations d'un cabinet d'architectes et contribuer à une réflexion sur l'architecture et ses responsabilités.Pour ce faire, il convient de prendre des exemples concrets, comme ceux que nous offre l'atelier GD: des architectures pensées comme objet utile et nécessaire en soi mais dont les résultats sont(...)
Geninasca Delefort: singulier pluriel
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Cette monographie entend dépasser la simple présentation des réalisations d'un cabinet d'architectes et contribuer à une réflexion sur l'architecture et ses responsabilités.Pour ce faire, il convient de prendre des exemples concrets, comme ceux que nous offre l'atelier GD: des architectures pensées comme objet utile et nécessaire en soi mais dont les résultats sont indissociablement liés à une situation, un cas, une occasion à saisir.
Architecture Monographs
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées,(...)
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Cabinets de curiosités: la passion de la collection
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées, ordonnées, organisées, les collections de ces "chambres des merveilles" ont finalement été regroupées par discipline pour donner, au siècle des Lumières, naissance aux musées. Aujourd'hui, les cabinets de curiosités restent une source d'inspiration importante, tant pour l'art contemporain qu'en décoration : mélange des catégories, métissage des arts, goût pour la collection et sa mise en scène, esthétique du désordre... Autant de citations contemporaines de cette "chambre des merveilles", qui s'avère un magnifique support à la rêverie et à la création.
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The First Photographs of Amsterdam presents a broad selection of images of the Dutch capital taken during the early years of photography. Drawn from the Amsterdam City Archives and other collections in the Netherlands and abroad, the finest surviving pictures of the city from that period are brought together. The book shows a wide range of early photographic techniques(...)
First photoggraphs of Amsterdam 1845-1875
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The First Photographs of Amsterdam presents a broad selection of images of the Dutch capital taken during the early years of photography. Drawn from the Amsterdam City Archives and other collections in the Netherlands and abroad, the finest surviving pictures of the city from that period are brought together. The book shows a wide range of early photographic techniques and genres, such as personal, souvenir and travel albums, cabinet cards, stereographs and news pictures.
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243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2018., ©2018
Theatre of the natural world / Mark Dion ; editor, Iwona Blazwick.
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243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
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London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2018., ©2018
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volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, maps ; 31 cm
St. John's : Newfoundland Book Publishers, [©1937]-
The book of Newfoundland / editor, Joseph R. Smallwood ; associate editor, James R. Thomas.
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volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, maps ; 31 cm
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St. John's : Newfoundland Book Publishers, [©1937]-
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An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, "Devices of Wonder" explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception. The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in "Devices of Wonder" are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective(...)
Architectural Theory
November 2001, Los Angeles
Devices of wonder from the world in a box to images on a screen
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An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, "Devices of Wonder" explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception. The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in "Devices of Wonder" are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns, camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and a pop-up book by Kara Walker. Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections among individual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, "Devices of Wonder" functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty from November 13, 2001, through February 6, 2002.
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November 2001, Los Angeles
Architectural Theory