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Paris : Bureau des antiquités mexicaines, 1834.
Paris : Bureau des antiquités mexicaines, 1834.
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Antiquités mexicaines : relation des trois expéditions du capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque / accompagnée des dessins de Castañeda et d'une carte du pays exploré : suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte, de l'Indostan, et du reste de l'ancien monde, par M. Alexandre Lenoir, d'une dissertation sur l'origine de l'ancienne population des deux Amériques et sur les diverses antiquités de ce continent, par M. Warden, avec un discours préliminaire par M. Charles Farcy, et des notes explicatives, et autres documents, par MM. Baradère, de St. Priest, et plusieurs voyageurs que ont parcouru l'Amérique.
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Antiquités mexicaines : relation des trois expéditions du capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque / accompagnée des dessins de Castañeda et d'une carte du pays exploré : suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte, de l'Indostan, et du reste de l'ancien monde, par M. Alexandre Lenoir, d'une dissertation sur l'origine de l'ancienne population des deux Amériques et sur les diverses antiquités de ce continent, par M. Warden, avec un discours préliminaire par M. Charles Farcy, et des notes explicatives, et autres documents, par MM. Baradère, de St. Priest, et plusieurs voyageurs que ont parcouru l'Amérique.
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Dandelions
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have(...)
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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In ''Dandelions'', Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations’ worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way. Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? At the heart of this book brimming with the lives of remarkable and apparently unremarkable people is Thea’s grandmother Dirce, a former seamstress, who, now approaching 100, is a repository of tales that are by turns unpredictable, unreliable, significant. And that lead us deeper. There’s the one about Mussolini’s modern Icarus who crashed into the murk of a lake; about the Manchester factory worker who wanted only to be seen; about the shadowy demon who visits in your sleep; and the monument to a murdered politician that, when it rains, runs the colour of blood. Through the journeys of Dirce and her relatives, from the Friuli to Sheffield and Manchester and back again, a different kind of history emerges, in which self and place are warp and weft, tightly woven, with threads left hazardously trailing.
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May 2023
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Literature and poetry
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in(...)
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in(...)
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January 1900, London
January 1900, London
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Making art work : the Mike Smith Studio
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in London furnishes the architecture for the most pressing installations and sculptures of young British artists. He is the carborundum that enables the best artists working in Britain today to realize their work - Rachel Whiteread's monument in Trafalgar Square is a testament to his work. The painter Patsy Craig has unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with the process of creation of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond and Mark Wallinger. She has collected from the Studio's archives, along with the detritus, the correspondence, notes, ideas, failures and successes of these and other artists at the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the construction of a significant theory in current British art. It is an assembly of the very templates of the thinking, design and creation of art in Britain today.
Making art work : the Mike Smith Studio
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in London furnishes the architecture for the most pressing installations and sculptures of young British artists. He is the carborundum that enables the best artists working in Britain today to realize their work - Rachel Whiteread's monument in Trafalgar Square is a testament to his work. The painter Patsy Craig has unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with the process of creation of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond and Mark Wallinger. She has collected from the Studio's archives, along with the detritus, the correspondence, notes, ideas, failures and successes of these and other artists at the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the construction of a significant theory in current British art. It is an assembly of the very templates of the thinking, design and creation of art in Britain today.
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January 1900, London
January 1900, London
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Obsolescence des ruines
Obsolescence des ruines
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Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi(...)
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Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi(...)
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Obsolescence des ruines
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Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi actuelle de la désindustrialisation, nimbe chaque bâtiment délaissé du monde. Elle est devenue en quelque temps la Mecque de l'exploration urbaine, dont le Detroit's Michigan Theater transformé en parking représente le cube de la Kaaba autour duquel tournoient les nouveaux pèlerins du Hajj de la dévastation urbaine. La ruine industrielle appartient encore pour une grande part au culte classique du monument effondré. Elle en rejoue la grandeur passée, l'évocation nostalgique de la civilisation fragile et mortelle. Dans les colonnes d'un temple ruiné ou dans les usines en friche, ce sont encore les beaux restes d'un Empire que l'on loue. Nous sommes entrés dans le troisième âge de la ruine. Après le temps des ruines antiques, puis celui ces ruines modernes, voici l'ère de la ruine instantanée, de la ruine du présent lui-même qui, née de l'urgence et vaincue par elle, ne dure plus, mais s'efface au moment même de son édification.
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Il serait difficile de nier que les ruines occupent une place de plus en plus grande dans l'imaginaire de notre temps. Nous ne parlons pas ici des ruines antiques et gothiques, mais de l'espace délabré des villes contemporaines, comprenant les usines désaffectées, les gares abandonnées, tous les lieux oubliés de la modernité. L'aura noire d'une ville comme Detroit, Pompéi actuelle de la désindustrialisation, nimbe chaque bâtiment délaissé du monde. Elle est devenue en quelque temps la Mecque de l'exploration urbaine, dont le Detroit's Michigan Theater transformé en parking représente le cube de la Kaaba autour duquel tournoient les nouveaux pèlerins du Hajj de la dévastation urbaine. La ruine industrielle appartient encore pour une grande part au culte classique du monument effondré. Elle en rejoue la grandeur passée, l'évocation nostalgique de la civilisation fragile et mortelle. Dans les colonnes d'un temple ruiné ou dans les usines en friche, ce sont encore les beaux restes d'un Empire que l'on loue. Nous sommes entrés dans le troisième âge de la ruine. Après le temps des ruines antiques, puis celui ces ruines modernes, voici l'ère de la ruine instantanée, de la ruine du présent lui-même qui, née de l'urgence et vaincue par elle, ne dure plus, mais s'efface au moment même de son édification.
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March 2022
March 2022
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Présentation d'une cinquantaine de projets architecturaux dessinés à l'occasion des expositions universelles de Paris. Véritables laboratoires, vivants recueils d'architectures et d'ornements, les expositions universelles rythment la vie des grandes capitales, à partir de 1851. L'idée d'une confrontation pacifique, internationale, qui rassemble commerce, industrie et(...)
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Présentation d'une cinquantaine de projets architecturaux dessinés à l'occasion des expositions universelles de Paris. Véritables laboratoires, vivants recueils d'architectures et d'ornements, les expositions universelles rythment la vie des grandes capitales, à partir de 1851. L'idée d'une confrontation pacifique, internationale, qui rassemble commerce, industrie et(...)
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Les expositions universelles à Paris : architectures réelles ou utopiques
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Présentation d'une cinquantaine de projets architecturaux dessinés à l'occasion des expositions universelles de Paris. Véritables laboratoires, vivants recueils d'architectures et d'ornements, les expositions universelles rythment la vie des grandes capitales, à partir de 1851. L'idée d'une confrontation pacifique, internationale, qui rassemble commerce, industrie et beaux-arts se concrétise avec la première Exposition universelle de Londres : Le Crystal Palace, élevé par Joseph Paxton, devient un monument symbolique et novateur par sa transparence, ses dimensions grandioses, le modernisme de sa réalisation. Lors de la première Exposition universelle parisienne de 1855, l'éblouissante réalisation londonienne suscite le vif désir de donner une expression monumentale à un bâtiment conçu pour durer : le Palais de l'industrie, situé au bas des Champs-Elysées. Il accueille les expositions du Salon jusqu'à sa destruction, pour faire place aux Grand et Petit Palais de l'Exposition de 1900. D'abord peu étendues, centrées autour d'un unique palais, les expositions prennent, à partir de 1867, le visage de véritables cités de l'éphémère, bariolées et colorées, qui, lorsqu'elles sont situées au coeur même de la ville, entrent en totale contradiction avec elle. Grâce à la riche collection de dessins d'architecture du musée d'Orsay et du Fonds Eiffel, cet ouvrage permet d'illustrer l'imagination des architectes, la diversité des édifices et ressuscite d'extraordinaires réalisations aujourd'hui disparues.
Les expositions universelles à Paris : architectures réelles ou utopiques
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Présentation d'une cinquantaine de projets architecturaux dessinés à l'occasion des expositions universelles de Paris. Véritables laboratoires, vivants recueils d'architectures et d'ornements, les expositions universelles rythment la vie des grandes capitales, à partir de 1851. L'idée d'une confrontation pacifique, internationale, qui rassemble commerce, industrie et beaux-arts se concrétise avec la première Exposition universelle de Londres : Le Crystal Palace, élevé par Joseph Paxton, devient un monument symbolique et novateur par sa transparence, ses dimensions grandioses, le modernisme de sa réalisation. Lors de la première Exposition universelle parisienne de 1855, l'éblouissante réalisation londonienne suscite le vif désir de donner une expression monumentale à un bâtiment conçu pour durer : le Palais de l'industrie, situé au bas des Champs-Elysées. Il accueille les expositions du Salon jusqu'à sa destruction, pour faire place aux Grand et Petit Palais de l'Exposition de 1900. D'abord peu étendues, centrées autour d'un unique palais, les expositions prennent, à partir de 1867, le visage de véritables cités de l'éphémère, bariolées et colorées, qui, lorsqu'elles sont situées au coeur même de la ville, entrent en totale contradiction avec elle. Grâce à la riche collection de dessins d'architecture du musée d'Orsay et du Fonds Eiffel, cet ouvrage permet d'illustrer l'imagination des architectes, la diversité des édifices et ressuscite d'extraordinaires réalisations aujourd'hui disparues.
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May 2007, Paris
May 2007, Paris
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the “counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the “Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, “Not the old, not the new, but the(...)
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Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the “counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the “Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, “Not the old, not the new, but the(...)
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Vladimir Tatlin: new art for a New World
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Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the “counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the “Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, “Not the old, not the new, but the necessary” was his motto; having spent his early years as an icon painter, Tatlin eschewed the modernist disavowal of heritage in favor of a research-based attitude to materials and genres. His “counter-relief” sculptures, made of wood, cardboard, metal and wire, were foundational works for Rodchenko and the Constructivists, and their influence can be seen today in the works of creators as various as Zaha Hadid and Richard Tuttle. With 120 color illustrations and a wealth of archival photos, this volume offers the first English-language overview of Tatlin’s diverse achievements in more than 25 years. Published for a landmark exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, it examines every facet of his output, from his early Cubist-influenced paintings to the counter-reliefs, the “Tower,” prints, set and costume designs and aeronautic researches, and constitutes an essential portrait of the ambitions of Soviet modernism.
Vladimir Tatlin: new art for a New World
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Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the “counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the “Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, “Not the old, not the new, but the necessary” was his motto; having spent his early years as an icon painter, Tatlin eschewed the modernist disavowal of heritage in favor of a research-based attitude to materials and genres. His “counter-relief” sculptures, made of wood, cardboard, metal and wire, were foundational works for Rodchenko and the Constructivists, and their influence can be seen today in the works of creators as various as Zaha Hadid and Richard Tuttle. With 120 color illustrations and a wealth of archival photos, this volume offers the first English-language overview of Tatlin’s diverse achievements in more than 25 years. Published for a landmark exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, it examines every facet of his output, from his early Cubist-influenced paintings to the counter-reliefs, the “Tower,” prints, set and costume designs and aeronautic researches, and constitutes an essential portrait of the ambitions of Soviet modernism.
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August 2012
August 2012
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239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 21 cm
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[Venice] : La Biennale di Venezia, 2021.
[Venice] : La Biennale di Venezia, 2021.
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Co-habitats : how we do live together in... Addis Ababa, Al Azraq Camp, Beirut, Hong Kong, India, Mexico/Egypt/Nigeria, New York, Prishtina, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Venice / edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir.
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Co-habitats : how we do live together in... Addis Ababa, Al Azraq Camp, Beirut, Hong Kong, India, Mexico/Egypt/Nigeria, New York, Prishtina, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Venice / edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir.
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[Venice] : La Biennale di Venezia, 2021.
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Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [1960]
Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [1960]
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The golden house of Nero : some aspects of Roman architecture / by Axel Boëthius
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Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [1960]
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157 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
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Arles : Actes Sud, [2025], ©2025
Arles : Actes Sud, [2025], ©2025
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Souterrains du monde / Jérôme et Laurent Triolet.
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157 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
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Arles : Actes Sud, [2025], ©2025
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86 pages : illustrations, folded plan ; 26 cm
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Roma : Libreria di scienze e lettere, 1930.
Roma : Libreria di scienze e lettere, 1930.
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L'"area sacra" ed i templi repubblicani del largo Argentina / G. Marchetti-Longhi.
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L'"area sacra" ed i templi repubblicani del largo Argentina / G. Marchetti-Longhi.
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Roma : Libreria di scienze e lettere, 1930.
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