The art of encounter
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Lee Ufan, a painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher, is known for his leading role in the Japanese avant-garde group Monoha. A new edition of a collection of writings first published in 2004, this volume features previously unpublished essays and spans from 1967-2007. Topics range from emptiness to the use of the brush to individual artists. Lee Ufan was born in(...)
The art of encounter
Actions:
Price:
$60.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Lee Ufan, a painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher, is known for his leading role in the Japanese avant-garde group Monoha. A new edition of a collection of writings first published in 2004, this volume features previously unpublished essays and spans from 1967-2007. Topics range from emptiness to the use of the brush to individual artists. Lee Ufan was born in Kyongsangnarndo, South Korea, in 1936. He is internationally regarded as the most significant Asian artist of his generation. After his first solo exhibition in Japan in 1967, he went on to participate in Documenta VI (1977) and in 1969 and 1973 represented Korea in the Sao Paulo Bienal. His most recent exhibition was held at the Lisson Gallery in London in 2004. He currently lives in Japan and France.
Architectural Theory
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Follies exist only by grace of their viewers. They are not there to live or work in, but only to provoke a reaction. Through their bizarre styles, forms and stories, they act as masonry mirrors of the soul; without a response from the passer-by, they do not exist. International follyDOCK Contest The changing situation of Heijplaat prompted the visual artist Lowieke Duran(...)
Follydock expo: 16 follies in Heijplaat / Rotterdam
Actions:
Price:
$45.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Follies exist only by grace of their viewers. They are not there to live or work in, but only to provoke a reaction. Through their bizarre styles, forms and stories, they act as masonry mirrors of the soul; without a response from the passer-by, they do not exist. International follyDOCK Contest The changing situation of Heijplaat prompted the visual artist Lowieke Duran to announce The International follyDOCK Contest. The brief: design a folly. A folly may be described as an architectural scherzo, a visually provocative, poetical structure without a specific function.
Urban Theory
$15.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Art Resources Transfer, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a more egalitarian access to the arts through publishing and the free distribution of contemporary art books to public library and schools in underserved communities nationwide. Between Artists is a series of conversation based books that document different positions and strategies of(...)
Between artists: Maria Eichhorn, John Miller
Actions:
Price:
$15.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Art Resources Transfer, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing a more egalitarian access to the arts through publishing and the free distribution of contemporary art books to public library and schools in underserved communities nationwide. Between Artists is a series of conversation based books that document different positions and strategies of contemporary, critical visual practice. These conversations provide an opportunity for artists to speak clearly about their practice and give readers a better understanding of the power and relevance of the artists' voice in the discussion of larger social issues.
Art Theory
$25.00
(available to order)
Summary:
For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social(...)
Urban imaginaries: locating the modern city
Actions:
Price:
$25.00
(available to order)
Summary:
For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as well as in the United States and France, and in doing so blends social, cultural, and political approaches to better understand the contemporary urban experience. Alev Çinar is associate professor of political science and public administration at Bilkent University, Turkey and Thomas Bender is university professor of the humanities and history at New York University.
Urban Theory
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The essays in "The Hand and the Soul" explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. The book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics. Yet, the majority of(...)
The hand and the soul: aesthetics and ethics in architecture and art
Actions:
Price:
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The essays in "The Hand and the Soul" explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process - a concern for the environment or for social justice - relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. The book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of an easy association of ethics and aesthetics. Yet, the majority of contributors, among them historians, theorists, as well practicing designers and artists, argue passionately in defense of the idea that the good and the beautiful can and should be able to find a common ground in the design disciplines.
Architectural Theory
books
$13.95
(available to order)
Summary:
When Hope in the Dark was first published, it resonated with readers everywhere. In these days of cultural and political pessimism, Rebecca Solnit's impassioned defense of hope is both necessary and inspiring. Now, in this new, significantly expanded edition, Solnit explores the political territory of America following George Bush's re-election, and the ongoing(...)
Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities
Actions:
Price:
$13.95
(available to order)
Summary:
When Hope in the Dark was first published, it resonated with readers everywhere. In these days of cultural and political pessimism, Rebecca Solnit's impassioned defense of hope is both necessary and inspiring. Now, in this new, significantly expanded edition, Solnit explores the political territory of America following George Bush's re-election, and the ongoing consequences of the war in Iraq.
books
December 2005, New York
Critical Theory
$21.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Young people ambitious to change the world and unhinge the rules holding it together, enjoying poking fun at it a little, respectfully but bravely, even daring to bring about 'revolution', but 'without anybody actually noticing', as the master Bruno Munari would have pointed out with a smile. And as our King Midas of communication and design, who would really be at home(...)
How to break the rules of brand design in 10+8 easy exercises
Actions:
Price:
$21.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Young people ambitious to change the world and unhinge the rules holding it together, enjoying poking fun at it a little, respectfully but bravely, even daring to bring about 'revolution', but 'without anybody actually noticing', as the master Bruno Munari would have pointed out with a smile. And as our King Midas of communication and design, who would really be at home here with these people, would have said, the healthy rule that now needs to be applied much more often and with greater clarity is that of breaking them (the rules) in order to move beyond them.
Design Theory
books
Grand urban rules
$54.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Grand Urban Rules offers a compilation and discussion of significant rules invented and implemented by European, North American, and Asian cities. The reader does not only get an overview of the functionality and repercussions of these rule sets but also gains insight into the context and situation of the specific city through the lens of rule-based governance: a city's(...)
Grand urban rules
Actions:
Price:
$54.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Grand Urban Rules offers a compilation and discussion of significant rules invented and implemented by European, North American, and Asian cities. The reader does not only get an overview of the functionality and repercussions of these rule sets but also gains insight into the context and situation of the specific city through the lens of rule-based governance: a city's code as the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city's actual situation. Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We map cities by their rules!
books
October 2008
Urban Theory
$33.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Since the mid-1990s, contemporary art has been booming like never before. There is more of everything - more artists, more collectors, more galleries, more art fairs, more museums, more biennials... with one exception: criteria with which the art of the moment can be understood, juged, praised and if needed damned. Jörg Heiser, co-editor of frieze magazine, provides a(...)
All of a sudden: things that matter in contemporary art
Actions:
Price:
$33.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Since the mid-1990s, contemporary art has been booming like never before. There is more of everything - more artists, more collectors, more galleries, more art fairs, more museums, more biennials... with one exception: criteria with which the art of the moment can be understood, juged, praised and if needed damned. Jörg Heiser, co-editor of frieze magazine, provides a sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp. Using many artworks as example, the author identifies some central ideas and artistic methods that seem important for understanding what fuels art's progress into the future.
Art Theory
$15.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
A book of migrations: some passages in Ireland
Actions:
Price:
$15.50
(available to order)
Summary:
A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her journey through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made up of great tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Her observations carve a new route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
Landscape Theory