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The incredible splendors of some of the worlds' most recognized architectural feats are brought to life within the pages of "Origami Architecture." With this book, some card stock paper, and a hobby knife, anyone can build spectacular re-creation's of the most famous buildings in the world. It gives instructions and templates for 16 buildings, including the Parthenon,(...)
Origami architecture : papercraft models of the world's most famous buildings
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The incredible splendors of some of the worlds' most recognized architectural feats are brought to life within the pages of "Origami Architecture." With this book, some card stock paper, and a hobby knife, anyone can build spectacular re-creation's of the most famous buildings in the world. It gives instructions and templates for 16 buildings, including the Parthenon, the White House, the Eiffel Tower, the Chrysler building, and the Forbidden City. There are over 900 photographs detailing the cutting and assembling of the pieces, most without using glue or tape. Once the structure is attached to the base not only will does it look amazing, but it can be folded up and taken anywhere. For the would-be architect, the papercraft hobbyist, or a model builder, "Origami Architecture" will provide hours of activity with impressive results.
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Avec plus de 400 articles illustrés par plus de 2 000 projets, Anthologie du graphisme présente un panorama de l'univers graphique. Les principes phares qui fondent le langage visuel, les principales sources de connaissance et d'apprentissage, les grands noms de l'histoire du graphisme et de sa culture, et les réalisations emblématiques des soixante dernières années sont(...)
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Anthologie du graphisme: le guide de référence des pratiques et de l'histoire du graphisme
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Avec plus de 400 articles illustrés par plus de 2 000 projets, Anthologie du graphisme présente un panorama de l'univers graphique. Les principes phares qui fondent le langage visuel, les principales sources de connaissance et d'apprentissage, les grands noms de l'histoire du graphisme et de sa culture, et les réalisations emblématiques des soixante dernières années sont compilés dans cet ouvrage clair, pratique et illustré.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Depuis plus de 70 ans, les fanzines sont un terrain d'expression privilégié pour des cultures alternatives. Ils abordent des sujets aussi variés que la science-fiction, les comics, la musique, la politique, le féminisme... Avec plus de 750 illustrations, cet ouvrage présente des publications pertinentes de l'histoire du fanzine. Depuis les premiers fanzines faits à la(...)
Fanzines: la révolution du DIY
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Depuis plus de 70 ans, les fanzines sont un terrain d'expression privilégié pour des cultures alternatives. Ils abordent des sujets aussi variés que la science-fiction, les comics, la musique, la politique, le féminisme... Avec plus de 750 illustrations, cet ouvrage présente des publications pertinentes de l'histoire du fanzine. Depuis les premiers fanzines faits à la main jusqu'aux e-zines numériques contemporains. Des fanzines punk cultes jusqu'à des publications qui ont ensuite évolué en magazines renommés, les collections présentées au long des pages expriment toute la richesse d'un univers subversif et débordant d'énergie.
Printed Matter
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What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. "Art can be anything" is illustrated by a drawing of Duchamp’s famous urinal; a(...)
101 things to learn in art school
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What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. "Art can be anything" is illustrated by a drawing of Duchamp’s famous urinal; a description of chiaroscuro art is illuminated by an image "after Caravaggio"; a lesson on time and media is accompanied by a view of a Jenny Holzer projection. The book offers advice about the issues artists confront across all artistic media, but this is no simple handbook to making art. It is a guide to understanding art as a description of the world we live in, and it is a guide to using art as a medium for thought. And so this book belongs on the reading list of art students, art teachers, and artists, but it also belongs in the library of everyone who cares about art as a way of understanding life.
Art Theory
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In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was "not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions....It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way."California design influenced the material culture of the entire country, in everything from architecture to fashion. This generously illustrated book, which(...)
Living in a modern way: California design 1930-1965
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In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was "not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions....It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way."California design influenced the material culture of the entire country, in everything from architecture to fashion. This generously illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design. It begins by tracing the origins of a distinctively California modernism in the 1930s by such European as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Kem Weber; it finds others pecific design influences and innovations in solid-color commercial ceramics, inspirations from Mexico and Asia, new schools for design training, new concepts about leisure, and the conversion of wartime technologies to peacetime use(exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames's plywood and fiberglass furniture).
Design, Periods and Styles
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This book will be a resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the recent "educational turn" in the arts within a broad historical and social context, this anthology raises fundamental questions about how and what should be taught in an era of distributive rather than media-based practices. Among the many sources and(...)
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This book will be a resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the recent "educational turn" in the arts within a broad historical and social context, this anthology raises fundamental questions about how and what should be taught in an era of distributive rather than media-based practices. Among the many sources and arguments traced here is second-wave feminism, which questioned dominant notions of personal and institutional freedom as enacted through art teaching and practice. Similarly, education-based responses by the art community to the catastrophes of World War II and postcolonial conflict critically inform contemporary art confronting the interrelationships of education, power, market capitalism, and--as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri describe it--the global condition of war. These writings by artists, philosophers, educators, poets, and activists center on three recurring and interrelated themes: the notion of "indiscipline" in theories and practices that challenge boundaries of all kinds; the present and future role of the art school; and the turn to pedagogy as medium in a diverse range of recent projects. Other writings address such issues as instrumentalism and control, liberation and equality, the production and the politics of culture, and the roots of research-based practice and experimental participatory works.
Art Theory
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The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art’s turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin - an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and collective memories, and the cultural afterlife of eras such as those of(...)
Ruins
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The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art’s turn toward site and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay has led in particular to the concept of the modern ruin - an ambiguous site of artistic and architectural modernism, personal and collective memories, and the cultural afterlife of eras such as those of state communism and colonialism. Contemporary art’s explorations of the ruin can evoke on the one hand diverse experiences of nostalgia and on the other a ceaselessly renewed encounter with catastrophes of the recent past and apprehensions of the future. For every relic of a harmonious era or utopian dream stands another recalling industrial decline, environmental disaster, and the depredations of war. This anthology provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary ruin in cultural discourse, aesthetics, and artistic practice. It examines the development of ruin aesthetics from the early modern era to the present; the ruin as a privileged emblem of modernity’s decline; the relic as a portal onto the political history of the recent past; the destruction and decline of cities and landscapes, with the emergence of "non-places" and “drosscape”; the symbolism of the entropic and decayed in critical environmentalism; and the confusing temporalities of the ruin in recent art - its involution of timescales and perspectives as it addresses not just the past but the future.
Art Theory
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to(...)
Urban code: 100 lessons for understanding the city
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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urbanplanner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons" - maxims, observations, and bite -size truths, followed by shortessays - that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, aprimer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level.
Urban Theory
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A Landscape History of New England takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report(...)
A landscape history of New England
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A Landscape History of New England takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes in forming Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature.
History until 1900
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By the end of the twentieth century, America’s suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the(...)
Pastoral capitalism: A history of suburban corporate landscapes
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By the end of the twentieth century, America’s suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. This book offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form.