Jack Goldstein
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A leading protagonist of the “Pictures Generation,” Jack Goldstein has long been prized by his colleagues and a specialist audience around the world for his heroic independence of spirit, but his actual work has typically remained inaccessible and unidentifiable to the wider public until now. His oeuvre is in fact characterized by its diversity, encompassing as it does(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2010
Jack Goldstein
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A leading protagonist of the “Pictures Generation,” Jack Goldstein has long been prized by his colleagues and a specialist audience around the world for his heroic independence of spirit, but his actual work has typically remained inaccessible and unidentifiable to the wider public until now. His oeuvre is in fact characterized by its diversity, encompassing as it does performances, films, albums, paintings, aphorisms, the critique of text and image production by direct appropriation, in the vein of his colleagues Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine. This first thorough catalogue on Goldstein contains a wide selection of illustrations, an interview with Goldstein from 1985 by Chris Dercon and essays by Klaus Görner, Chrissie Iles and Shepherd Steiner.
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Shackleton's journey
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To celebrate Ernest Shackleton’s departure on “Endurance” across the Antarctic, illustrator William Grill brings us a detailed visual narrative of this extraordinary and historical expedition. This is a fastidious cataloguing of every single detail of the expeditio with a use of coloured pencils and vibrant hues. Grill evokes the atmosphere and intrepid excitement that(...)
Shackleton's journey
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To celebrate Ernest Shackleton’s departure on “Endurance” across the Antarctic, illustrator William Grill brings us a detailed visual narrative of this extraordinary and historical expedition. This is a fastidious cataloguing of every single detail of the expeditio with a use of coloured pencils and vibrant hues. Grill evokes the atmosphere and intrepid excitement that would have surrounded the expedition with his researched and detailed drawings. Children will love examining the exploded diagrams of the peculiar provision taken or the individual drawings of the sled dogs or pack horses. This book takes the academic and historical information surrounding the expedition and re-interprets it for a younger audience in a way that will capture their imaginations.
Children's Books
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Curators of architecture exhibitions are often concerned with the problem of how to present objects that ultimately cannot be brought into the exhibition space. Such shows are often difficult for lay audiences to interpret little focus is placed on communication. However, there are also architecture exhibits that concentrate on communicating an experience, making it(...)
Displayed spaces: new means of architecture presentation through exhibitions
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Curators of architecture exhibitions are often concerned with the problem of how to present objects that ultimately cannot be brought into the exhibition space. Such shows are often difficult for lay audiences to interpret little focus is placed on communication. However, there are also architecture exhibits that concentrate on communicating an experience, making it possible to build an intense relationship between the audience and the content on display. The result of a research project organized in 2013 by the faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Displayed Spaces focuses on the question of how spaces might communicate architectural ideas in a redevelopment project and its accompanying exhibition proposed for the city of Bolzano, Italy.
Museology
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This book is a history. It gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. This book is a script. It documents "A sexual history of the internet," a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. It is a polyvocal story, whose citations are read aloud by the audience —(...)
A sexual history of the internet
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This book is a history. It gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. This book is a script. It documents "A sexual history of the internet," a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. It is a polyvocal story, whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation. This book is a fiscal experiment of redistribution. In it, you’ll find citations by 45 people who have shaped my understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits. We call this experiment "Citational Splits," a new model of attribution.
Archive, library and the digital
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Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV is the first book to examine how the vast gardens of Versailles were used for these diplomatic receptions during the reign of the Sun King (1661-1715). The gardens were the final mise en scène of an elaborate ritual, which included the housing of the foreigners in Paris, their journey to Versailles, and their(...)
Landscape Theory
August 2008, Philadelphia
Diplomatic tours in the gardens of Versailles under Louis XIV
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Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV is the first book to examine how the vast gardens of Versailles were used for these diplomatic receptions during the reign of the Sun King (1661-1715). The gardens were the final mise en scène of an elaborate ritual, which included the housing of the foreigners in Paris, their journey to Versailles, and their official audience with the king in the palace. A showcase for the achievements of royal artists, landscape architects, and hydraulic engineers, the gardens were soon regarded as one of the wonders of the modern world, proclaiming the wealth, power, and artistic taste of France and the French monarchy.
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August 2008, Philadelphia
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Hidden graphics
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Aimed at rediscovering the most experimental and least-known graphic designs created in Catalonia between 1965 and 2002, "Hidden graphics" digs deep and deliberately at the fringes of what might be called the "official" history of design. On the lookout for graphic and sociological innovation, this volume plumbs work within the following limits: minimal distribution,(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
August 2003, Barcelona
Hidden graphics
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Aimed at rediscovering the most experimental and least-known graphic designs created in Catalonia between 1965 and 2002, "Hidden graphics" digs deep and deliberately at the fringes of what might be called the "official" history of design. On the lookout for graphic and sociological innovation, this volume plumbs work within the following limits: minimal distribution, intended for a small audience, and emblematic of a time and reflecting a will to experiment, critique or innovate. Categories include: graphic transgressions (stating a clear transgressive will in both content and form), technographics (where employed technology marks meaning), metadesign (intended for communication between designers, done without commission or by self-commission), and graphic interlopers (created by non-designers).
Graphic Design and Typography
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The use of wood in architecture appears to be the order of the day, and Switzerland’s leading role in wood processing and building aesthetics is demonstrated in an international context. Authors from various disciplines create the content framework in which wood can be experienced sensually and its possibilities and limitations can be discussed. This volume is aimed at an(...)
Touch wood: Material, architecture, future
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The use of wood in architecture appears to be the order of the day, and Switzerland’s leading role in wood processing and building aesthetics is demonstrated in an international context. Authors from various disciplines create the content framework in which wood can be experienced sensually and its possibilities and limitations can be discussed. This volume is aimed at an engaged audience of experts and laypersons who want to enrich their experiences with knowledge and thus become actors in the promotion of wood in architecture. In addition to documenting exemplary buildings in accessible texts and with numerous illustrations, the publication also illuminates the many relationships that connect people with wood as a material.
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Abramovic-isms
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Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as "The Artist Is Present" (2010), where she sat in silence across from members of the public at the Museum of Modern Art for eight hours a day for three months, and "Rhythm 0" (1974), a six-hour performance in which(...)
Abramovic-isms
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Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as "The Artist Is Present" (2010), where she sat in silence across from members of the public at the Museum of Modern Art for eight hours a day for three months, and "Rhythm 0" (1974), a six-hour performance in which she stood next to a table holding seventy-two objects, including a scalpel and a loaded gun, and a sign suggesting audience members could do to her whatever they wanted. Gathered from interviews, lectures, writings, and other sources, "Abramovic-isms" is a unique collection of quotations that offers a window into the mind of this iconic trailblazer.
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xxii, 326 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
New directions and paradigms for the study of Greek architecture : interdisciplinary dialogues in the field / edited by Philip Sapirstein PhD, University of Toronto; David Scahill PhD, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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"The Expendable Reader" collects the key writings of John McHale (1922-1978): artist, theorist, graphic designer, sociologist, cofounder of the Independent Group and (according to Lawrence Alloway) "the father of Pop." It compiles over a dozen key texts from a range of rare magazines, bringing unavailable material back into the hands of a broader audience. In addition to(...)
John McHale: The expendable reader
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"The Expendable Reader" collects the key writings of John McHale (1922-1978): artist, theorist, graphic designer, sociologist, cofounder of the Independent Group and (according to Lawrence Alloway) "the father of Pop." It compiles over a dozen key texts from a range of rare magazines, bringing unavailable material back into the hands of a broader audience. In addition to these writings, "The Expendable Reader" reproduces samples of the dynamic page layouts deployed in McHale's texts. All of McHale's writings wrestle with questions of expendability and the future, and the way these phenomena affect traditional conceptions of culture. While many of the terms he dwells on, such as "expendability," "lifestyle" and "network," have become central terms of contemporary cultural criticism, McHale's voice is strangely missing from the debate.
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