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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the(...)
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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the(...)
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Humanism and the urban world: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti’s consideration of the city's possible destruction and the city’s capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.
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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti’s consideration of the city's possible destruction and the city’s capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.
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August 2011
August 2011
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History until 1900
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Des territoires
Des territoires
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie,(...)
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie,(...)
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité. Jean-François Chevrier écarte les périodisations convenues (modernisme, postmodernisme) et les labels. Il fait apparaître des mécanismes de création, des réseaux de figures et des territoires qui participent de l'histoire autant que de la poésie. II retrace des situations spécifiques dans lesquelles une pensée et un geste ont fait surgir une forme, ici et maintenant, au-delà d'une conception étroite de l'actuel.
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité. Jean-François Chevrier écarte les périodisations convenues (modernisme, postmodernisme) et les labels. Il fait apparaître des mécanismes de création, des réseaux de figures et des territoires qui participent de l'histoire autant que de la poésie. II retrace des situations spécifiques dans lesquelles une pensée et un geste ont fait surgir une forme, ici et maintenant, au-delà d'une conception étroite de l'actuel.
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March 2011
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Art Theory
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Les relations du corps
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie,(...)
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie,(...)
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Les relations du corps
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité. Jean-François Chevrier écarte les périodisations convenues (modernisme, postmodernisme) et les labels. Il fait apparaître des mécanismes de création, des réseaux de figures et des territoires qui participent de l'histoire autant que de la poésie.
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes partis et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. Elle propose un récit foisonnant, vivant, lacunaire, érudit. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité. Jean-François Chevrier écarte les périodisations convenues (modernisme, postmodernisme) et les labels. Il fait apparaître des mécanismes de création, des réseaux de figures et des territoires qui participent de l'histoire autant que de la poésie.
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans(...)
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans(...)
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Urban vodou: politique et art de la rue en Haïti
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans le séisme de janvier 2010.
Urban vodou: politique et art de la rue en Haïti
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Au fil de ses voyages, P. Butcher, collectionneur et marchand d'art, a photographié les murs peints en Haïti, oeuvres naïves et accomplies, assorties de slogans et d'inscriptions, débordant de couleurs, mêlant symboles religieux, souvenirs de l'esclavage, éléments de la vie quotidienne et de la fête, et témoignages des événements de 1986 à 1994. Une culture disparue dans le séisme de janvier 2010.
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March 2011
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''Tar Sands'' critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and(...)
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''Tar Sands'' critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and(...)
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Tar sands : dirty oil and the future of the continent
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''Tar Sands'' critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now owns a lease in the Alberta tar sands. The region has become a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, Muslim extremists, and a huge population of homeless individuals. In this award-winning book, a Canadian bestseller, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands, arguing forcefully for change.
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''Tar Sands'' critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now owns a lease in the Alberta tar sands. The region has become a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, Muslim extremists, and a huge population of homeless individuals. In this award-winning book, a Canadian bestseller, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands, arguing forcefully for change.
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April 2010
April 2010
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Environment and environmental theory
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Today, more than 85 years after its inception, the Bauhaus style still emanates vitality. The present volume provides insight into the historical, cultural, philosophical, political and pedagogical background of the 1930s, when the Bauhaus was founded. It also portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers and describes their signature pedagogical methods. Finally,(...)
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Today, more than 85 years after its inception, the Bauhaus style still emanates vitality. The present volume provides insight into the historical, cultural, philosophical, political and pedagogical background of the 1930s, when the Bauhaus was founded. It also portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers and describes their signature pedagogical methods. Finally,(...)
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Bauhaus
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Today, more than 85 years after its inception, the Bauhaus style still emanates vitality. The present volume provides insight into the historical, cultural, philosophical, political and pedagogical background of the 1930s, when the Bauhaus was founded. It also portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers and describes their signature pedagogical methods. Finally, the authors take readers inside individual workshops, where they can discover for themselves the unique wealth of forms and ideas that remain the hallmark of Bauhaus products. Through its contributions to current discourse on the Bauhaus as a "fixed star of the avant-garde" its wealth of pictorial material (some of which has never before been published), as well as the rich variety of topics it addresses, this book offers a comprehensive look at one of the most significant institutions in the history of modern art and culture.
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Today, more than 85 years after its inception, the Bauhaus style still emanates vitality. The present volume provides insight into the historical, cultural, philosophical, political and pedagogical background of the 1930s, when the Bauhaus was founded. It also portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers and describes their signature pedagogical methods. Finally, the authors take readers inside individual workshops, where they can discover for themselves the unique wealth of forms and ideas that remain the hallmark of Bauhaus products. Through its contributions to current discourse on the Bauhaus as a "fixed star of the avant-garde" its wealth of pictorial material (some of which has never before been published), as well as the rich variety of topics it addresses, this book offers a comprehensive look at one of the most significant institutions in the history of modern art and culture.
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December 2008
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Modernism
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Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now reconfigures the conception of a generic industrial material into one of myriad artistic, creative, and practical purposes and potential, revealing just how far it is possible to push the medium by the way of contemporary design. Drawing on historical and traditional approaches, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now charts the(...)
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Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now reconfigures the conception of a generic industrial material into one of myriad artistic, creative, and practical purposes and potential, revealing just how far it is possible to push the medium by the way of contemporary design. Drawing on historical and traditional approaches, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now charts the(...)
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Paper and packaging design
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March 2011
March 2011
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Outside the box: Cardboard design now
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Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now reconfigures the conception of a generic industrial material into one of myriad artistic, creative, and practical purposes and potential, revealing just how far it is possible to push the medium by the way of contemporary design. Drawing on historical and traditional approaches, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now charts the medium’s evolution through to modern practices, profiling some of today’s most inspirational and provocative artists and designers working across the fields of art, design and sculpture.
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Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now reconfigures the conception of a generic industrial material into one of myriad artistic, creative, and practical purposes and potential, revealing just how far it is possible to push the medium by the way of contemporary design. Drawing on historical and traditional approaches, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now charts the medium’s evolution through to modern practices, profiling some of today’s most inspirational and provocative artists and designers working across the fields of art, design and sculpture.
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642 things to draw
642 things to draw
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A rolling pin, a robot, a pickle, a water tower, a hammock, a wasp, a safety pin, a kiss. 642 Things to Draw is a sketchbook, sure to entertain and provoke the imagination of anyone ready to pick up a pencil.
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A rolling pin, a robot, a pickle, a water tower, a hammock, a wasp, a safety pin, a kiss. 642 Things to Draw is a sketchbook, sure to entertain and provoke the imagination of anyone ready to pick up a pencil.
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March 2011
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A rolling pin, a robot, a pickle, a water tower, a hammock, a wasp, a safety pin, a kiss. 642 Things to Draw is a sketchbook, sure to entertain and provoke the imagination of anyone ready to pick up a pencil.
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A rolling pin, a robot, a pickle, a water tower, a hammock, a wasp, a safety pin, a kiss. 642 Things to Draw is a sketchbook, sure to entertain and provoke the imagination of anyone ready to pick up a pencil.
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Ce Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante, qui succède au Parcours commenté publié en 2007, présente 24 réalisations architecturales remarquables. Cet échantillonnage, révélateur d'une grande vitalité, réunit de véritables joyaux d'architecture tous azimuts : des maisons de vacances et de week-end aux formes étonnantes, un agrandissement astucieux pour(...)
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Ce Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante, qui succède au Parcours commenté publié en 2007, présente 24 réalisations architecturales remarquables. Cet échantillonnage, révélateur d'une grande vitalité, réunit de véritables joyaux d'architecture tous azimuts : des maisons de vacances et de week-end aux formes étonnantes, un agrandissement astucieux pour(...)
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Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante : prix d'excellence en architecture 2011
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Ce Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante, qui succède au Parcours commenté publié en 2007, présente 24 réalisations architecturales remarquables. Cet échantillonnage, révélateur d'une grande vitalité, réunit de véritables joyaux d'architecture tous azimuts : des maisons de vacances et de week-end aux formes étonnantes, un agrandissement astucieux pour petit budget, une place de festivals animée avec ses vitrines habitées, un lieu de culte en communion avec la nature, des théâtres reconstruits ou restaurés où l'ancien côtoie le présent, des bâtiments réanimés à la suite d'un recyclage consciencieux et d'une valorisation architecture qui font honneur à leur propriétaire et enfin, des édifices industriels où technologie et architecture fusionnent au profit du développement durable. En outre, plusieurs architectes dont les réalisations sont primées révèlent leurs sources d'inspiration littéraires, celles qui ont façonné leur brillant esprit créateur.
Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante : prix d'excellence en architecture 2011
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Ce Parcours littéraire d'une architecture gagnante, qui succède au Parcours commenté publié en 2007, présente 24 réalisations architecturales remarquables. Cet échantillonnage, révélateur d'une grande vitalité, réunit de véritables joyaux d'architecture tous azimuts : des maisons de vacances et de week-end aux formes étonnantes, un agrandissement astucieux pour petit budget, une place de festivals animée avec ses vitrines habitées, un lieu de culte en communion avec la nature, des théâtres reconstruits ou restaurés où l'ancien côtoie le présent, des bâtiments réanimés à la suite d'un recyclage consciencieux et d'une valorisation architecture qui font honneur à leur propriétaire et enfin, des édifices industriels où technologie et architecture fusionnent au profit du développement durable. En outre, plusieurs architectes dont les réalisations sont primées révèlent leurs sources d'inspiration littéraires, celles qui ont façonné leur brillant esprit créateur.
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April 2011
April 2011
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Architecture du Québec
Architecture du Québec
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«In the black-and-white photographs you can feel Balthasar Burkhard standing in front of his motif. His gaze through the camera weighs, structures and composes. […] A touch of melancholy is embodied in the coloring and scent of his heliogravures. One can almost hear the voices of the three sisters in Chekhov’s eponymous drama, first performed in 1901 . The pictures are(...)
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«In the black-and-white photographs you can feel Balthasar Burkhard standing in front of his motif. His gaze through the camera weighs, structures and composes. […] A touch of melancholy is embodied in the coloring and scent of his heliogravures. One can almost hear the voices of the three sisters in Chekhov’s eponymous drama, first performed in 1901 . The pictures are(...)
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Balthasar Burkhard : scent of desire
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«In the black-and-white photographs you can feel Balthasar Burkhard standing in front of his motif. His gaze through the camera weighs, structures and composes. […] A touch of melancholy is embodied in the coloring and scent of his heliogravures. One can almost hear the voices of the three sisters in Chekhov’s eponymous drama, first performed in 1901 . The pictures are imbued with a breath of transience, even of resignation. But at the same time, the scent of desire, of wanting to blossom is a strong instinct.» (Jean-Christophe Ammann) Two volumes show the artist’s latest full-color work and older black-and-white photographs that focus on the body and the landscape. Burkhard’s recent pictures of blossoms and plants are of such sensual intensity that we can almost smell their colors.
Balthasar Burkhard : scent of desire
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«In the black-and-white photographs you can feel Balthasar Burkhard standing in front of his motif. His gaze through the camera weighs, structures and composes. […] A touch of melancholy is embodied in the coloring and scent of his heliogravures. One can almost hear the voices of the three sisters in Chekhov’s eponymous drama, first performed in 1901 . The pictures are imbued with a breath of transience, even of resignation. But at the same time, the scent of desire, of wanting to blossom is a strong instinct.» (Jean-Christophe Ammann) Two volumes show the artist’s latest full-color work and older black-and-white photographs that focus on the body and the landscape. Burkhard’s recent pictures of blossoms and plants are of such sensual intensity that we can almost smell their colors.
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March 2011
March 2011
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
