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André Kertész (1894–1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. His combination of Modernist vision and poetic wit defined a vocabulary that generations of photographers have continued to use. Kertész's iconic images of 1920s Paris, such as "Chez Mondrian" and "Satiric dancer" and his later images from New(...)
Photography monographs
October 2005, New York
André Kertész : the early years
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André Kertész (1894–1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium's history. His combination of Modernist vision and poetic wit defined a vocabulary that generations of photographers have continued to use. Kertész's iconic images of 1920s Paris, such as "Chez Mondrian" and "Satiric dancer" and his later images from New York–"Melancholic tulip," "Washington Square"–have seeped into contemporary culture, and yet Kertész maintained that the real roots of his work were in Hungary. This book, the first completely dedicated to Kertész's early Hungarian prints, offers a unique window on the origins of genius. Ninety images, selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate, are meticulously reproduced to actual size, revealing the explosive cultural context of early twentieth-century Hungary.
Photography monographs
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On a souvent comparé les villes à d’immenses cerveaux collectifs en perpétuel mouvement. Seulement, pour que ce cerveau soit irrigué, vitalisé sans cesse, il faut que l’on puisse s’y mouvoir, que l’on sache faciliter les échanges en nombre et qualité. Aussi la mobilité, l’accessibilité sont essentielles à la qualité de la vie urbaine. Mais la facilité de se mouvoir induit(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
November 2005, La Tour d'Aigues
Ville et mobilité : un couple infernal?
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On a souvent comparé les villes à d’immenses cerveaux collectifs en perpétuel mouvement. Seulement, pour que ce cerveau soit irrigué, vitalisé sans cesse, il faut que l’on puisse s’y mouvoir, que l’on sache faciliter les échanges en nombre et qualité. Aussi la mobilité, l’accessibilité sont essentielles à la qualité de la vie urbaine. Mais la facilité de se mouvoir induit des congestions, des nuisances et des mutations urbaines incontrôlées. Alors, à partir de quand peut-on dire que ville et mobilité rentrent en opposition ? Pour Marc Wiel, il faut penser et organiser, en même temps, la mobilité et la ville car elles ne peuvent être dissociées ; interagissantes, à la fois complémentaires et concurrentes, elles font système. La ville conditionne les formes de la mobilité, comme les conditions de la mobilité influent sur la ville. Pour l’auteur, la ville équilibrée et équilibrante, la ville durable, est celle de la vitesse maîtrisée, de la vitesse accordée aux densités de l’occupation du sol mais aussi à la fréquence des échanges. L’équilibre entre transports individuels et collectifs, politiques d’urbanisme, pourra alors être trouvé, mais dans l’unicité de chaque réalité urbaine. Un court essai qui pose des questions essentielles sur l’avenir de notre qualité de vivre ensemble.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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La vie culturelle montréalaise au tournant du XXe siècle est loin de ressembler au désert que nous imaginons volontiers. Elle est au contraire effervescente, marquée par un réaménagement de la vie musicale et théâtrale, vivifiée par la présence d'artistes fascinés par diverses voies esthétiques et traversée par de grandes polémiques. Cet ouvrage multimédia vise à(...)
La vie culturelle à Montréal vers 1900
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La vie culturelle montréalaise au tournant du XXe siècle est loin de ressembler au désert que nous imaginons volontiers. Elle est au contraire effervescente, marquée par un réaménagement de la vie musicale et théâtrale, vivifiée par la présence d'artistes fascinés par diverses voies esthétiques et traversée par de grandes polémiques. Cet ouvrage multimédia vise à permettre au lecteur-auditeur de prendre la mesure de cette vie culturelle largement sous-évaluée, en lui offrant à la fois un échantillon représentatif de l'environnement culturel dans lequel les Montréalais se trouvaient alors immergés et un panorama de la recherche actuellement menée sur cette période dans diverses disciplines - littérature, histoire des institutions, histoire de l'art, musique, théâtre.
Architecture de Montréal
Will Alsop's supercity
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Published alongside the futuristic urban exhibition at Urbis, Manchester (January – May 2005) Will Alsop is one of the most celebrated and controversial architects working in the UK today. Here he explores the future of the cities of England’s North – the way they look, function and enhance the lives of those who live there. The book concentrates on the different(...)
Will Alsop's supercity
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Published alongside the futuristic urban exhibition at Urbis, Manchester (January – May 2005) Will Alsop is one of the most celebrated and controversial architects working in the UK today. Here he explores the future of the cities of England’s North – the way they look, function and enhance the lives of those who live there. The book concentrates on the different forms this ‘northern corridor’ (80 miles long and 15 miles wide) might take when considered a single entity. Featuring essays by Will Alsop, Scott Burnham, James Hulme, Laurie Peake, Bridget Sawyers and Bill Tyson, the book weaves a narrative through the rich visual flair of Alsop’s imagination to tell the story of a near future in which we may come to live.
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British council Nairobi
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A new council office, designed by Squire and Partners, opened in Nairobi in November 2004. The design utilises the local climate and orientation to passively control the building’s environment and has evolved from Squire and Partners’ ethos of contextual modernism. The practice works hard with site locations, aspect and orientation to develop proposals that are both(...)
British council Nairobi
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A new council office, designed by Squire and Partners, opened in Nairobi in November 2004. The design utilises the local climate and orientation to passively control the building’s environment and has evolved from Squire and Partners’ ethos of contextual modernism. The practice works hard with site locations, aspect and orientation to develop proposals that are both appropriate and culturally of their 'place’. The design responds specifically to both the culture of the British council in East Africa and the site context of central Nairobi to create a dramatic, beautiful space. The British Council’s Visual Arts Department commissioned a site specific work for the new building from artist David Tremlett who was invited to contribute wall drawings to the front and back elevations and to the main corridors leading to the teaching areas within the building. The drawings of rubbed pigment and varnish highlight accentuate the flat planes of the building and the colours harmonise with the vibrant richness of the Kenyan soil, vegetation and sky.
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Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly painted in oil started appearing on graffiti sites in New York City. The paintings were the work of artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diary-like experiences of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her "beautification project" is both provocative and(...)
Ellen Harvey : New York Beautification Project
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Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly painted in oil started appearing on graffiti sites in New York City. The paintings were the work of artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diary-like experiences of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her "beautification project" is both provocative and hilarious. It touches on serious issues, such as who is allowed to make art in our society and what distinguishes art from graffiti, while never losing touch with the frequently comical reality of creating a contemporary art project on the streets of New York.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John(...)
Nature, the end of art : enviromental landscapes
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John Grande, Uwe Rüth, and Michael Danoff. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum and Wolfgang Becker.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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For five years Linda Herzog photographed her Swiss hometown of Zurich, the once industrial city of Birmingham, England, and the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. These 52 color images, shown record cultural differences and commonalities, and raise provocative questions about the new Europe.
Photography monographs
September 2005, Köln / Zürich
Linda Herzog : Birmingham, Istanbul, Zürich
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For five years Linda Herzog photographed her Swiss hometown of Zurich, the once industrial city of Birmingham, England, and the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. These 52 color images, shown record cultural differences and commonalities, and raise provocative questions about the new Europe.
Photography monographs
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Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion’s neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled "Course of empire" at the 2005 Venice biennale. Five pieces are painted in color and five in black and white. The artist paired each work from his 1992 Blue collar series(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2005, New York
Course of empire : paintings of Ed Ruscha, United State pavilion, 51st Venice biennale, 2005
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Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion’s neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled "Course of empire" at the 2005 Venice biennale. Five pieces are painted in color and five in black and white. The artist paired each work from his 1992 Blue collar series with a new color canvas depicting the future of the same urban landscape, some deteriorated, some growing and changing, some seemingly gentrifying. The exhibition will travel in 2006 to The Whitney museum of American art in New York. Essays from Linda Norden, the U.S. commissioner for the Venice Biennale, and artist Frances Stark celebrate the work, while Joan Didion’s coolly written but deeply felt piece about her own brokenhearted longing for Los Angeles hits a perfect note.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A book for all the senses, exuding the flowery scent of wallflower, tufted violet, vanilla, calamint, lavender, and sage. Olafur Eliasson (*1967 in Copenhagen) is one of the most famous artists of his generation. In his installations, the Icelandic artist deals with aspects of land art, transplanting his contemporary interpretations of it to museums and thoughtfully(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2005, Ostfildern (Ruit)
Olafur Eliasson : scent tunnel
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A book for all the senses, exuding the flowery scent of wallflower, tufted violet, vanilla, calamint, lavender, and sage. Olafur Eliasson (*1967 in Copenhagen) is one of the most famous artists of his generation. In his installations, the Icelandic artist deals with aspects of land art, transplanting his contemporary interpretations of it to museums and thoughtfully planned park settings. The scented tunnel created for Wolfsburg, Germany's motor city, elucidates a fascinating interplay of nature and technology, where multiple sensory impressions combine to form a whole in the observer's perception. This publication documents Dufttunnel throughout an entire season. The various blooming phases of different plants are accompanied by scientific and art-historical interpretations of the Dufttunnel phenomenon.
Contemporary Art Monographs