36154 Results
Form:
books
books
Title:
Talking maps
Talking maps
Actions:
Price:
$74.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travelers, explorers, and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives and surroundings, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. By(...)
$74.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travelers, explorers, and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives and surroundings, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. By(...)
Subject:
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Publication:
November 2019
November 2019
Title:
Talking maps
Actions:
Price:
$74.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travelers, explorers, and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives and surroundings, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. By telling the stories behind the artifacts and those generated by them, "Talking Maps " reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by describing where we are.
Talking maps
Actions:
Price:
$74.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travelers, explorers, and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives and surroundings, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. By telling the stories behind the artifacts and those generated by them, "Talking Maps " reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by describing where we are.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2019
November 2019
Subject:
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Architectural Plans and Cartography
Form:
books
books
Title:
A museum miscellany
A museum miscellany
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to niche collections such as the Lawnmower Museum and the Museum of Barbed Wire. Here you will find a cornucopia of museum-related facts, statistics, and lists, covering everything from museum(...)
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to niche collections such as the Lawnmower Museum and the Museum of Barbed Wire. Here you will find a cornucopia of museum-related facts, statistics, and lists, covering everything from museum(...)
Title:
A museum miscellany
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to niche collections such as the Lawnmower Museum and the Museum of Barbed Wire. Here you will find a cornucopia of museum-related facts, statistics, and lists, covering everything from museum ghosts, dangerous museum objects, and conservation beetles to treasure troves, museum heists and the Museum of London’s fatberg.
A museum miscellany
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'A Museum Miscellany' celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institutions such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to niche collections such as the Lawnmower Museum and the Museum of Barbed Wire. Here you will find a cornucopia of museum-related facts, statistics, and lists, covering everything from museum ghosts, dangerous museum objects, and conservation beetles to treasure troves, museum heists and the Museum of London’s fatberg.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
November 2019
November 2019
Subject:
Museology
Museology
Form:
books
books
Price:
$75.50
(available to order)
Summary:
''Light Scripture'' collects three photo essays by Swiss photographer Andreas Greber. Created over the course of two decades, Greber’s photographs show simple scenes, such as fragments of a wall, translucent portraits, and wooded landscapes. Yet they are enigmatic and unsettling in that, while visible, their subjects escape the determination of shadow and light. For(...)
$75.50
(available to order)
Summary:
''Light Scripture'' collects three photo essays by Swiss photographer Andreas Greber. Created over the course of two decades, Greber’s photographs show simple scenes, such as fragments of a wall, translucent portraits, and wooded landscapes. Yet they are enigmatic and unsettling in that, while visible, their subjects escape the determination of shadow and light. For(...)
Title:
Andreas Greber: Light scripture: analog reflections in photography
Actions:
Price:
$75.50
(available to order)
Summary:
''Light Scripture'' collects three photo essays by Swiss photographer Andreas Greber. Created over the course of two decades, Greber’s photographs show simple scenes, such as fragments of a wall, translucent portraits, and wooded landscapes. Yet they are enigmatic and unsettling in that, while visible, their subjects escape the determination of shadow and light. For Greber, this is the essence of photography: inscribing with light.
Andreas Greber: Light scripture: analog reflections in photography
Actions:
Price:
$75.50
(available to order)
Summary:
''Light Scripture'' collects three photo essays by Swiss photographer Andreas Greber. Created over the course of two decades, Greber’s photographs show simple scenes, such as fragments of a wall, translucent portraits, and wooded landscapes. Yet they are enigmatic and unsettling in that, while visible, their subjects escape the determination of shadow and light. For Greber, this is the essence of photography: inscribing with light.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
August 2019
August 2019
Subject:
Photography monographs
Photography monographs
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$41.50
(available to order)
Summary:
This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building(...)
$41.50
(available to order)
Summary:
This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building(...)
Subject:
Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
Publication:
July 2019
July 2019
Title:
Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life
Actions:
Price:
$41.50
(available to order)
Summary:
This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism.
Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life
Actions:
Price:
$41.50
(available to order)
Summary:
This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
July 2019
July 2019
Subject:
Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
Form:
books
books
Price:
$46.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. 'The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global' explores and critically interrogates punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization. Documenting disparate international(...)
$46.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. 'The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global' explores and critically interrogates punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization. Documenting disparate international(...)
Title:
The punk reader: research transmissions from the local to the global
Actions:
Price:
$46.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. 'The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global' explores and critically interrogates punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization. Documenting disparate international punk scenes, including Mexico, China, Malaysia and Iran, 'The Punk Reader' is a long-overdue addition to punk studies and a valuable resource for readers seeking to know more about the global influence of punk beyond the 1970s.
The punk reader: research transmissions from the local to the global
Actions:
Price:
$46.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. 'The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global' explores and critically interrogates punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization. Documenting disparate international punk scenes, including Mexico, China, Malaysia and Iran, 'The Punk Reader' is a long-overdue addition to punk studies and a valuable resource for readers seeking to know more about the global influence of punk beyond the 1970s.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
August 2019
August 2019
Subject:
Critical Theory
Critical Theory
Form:
books
books
Title:
Unthought environments
Unthought environments
Actions:
Price:
$55.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an(...)
$55.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an(...)
Title:
Unthought environments
Actions:
Price:
$55.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an extensive selection of images, and a conversation with artists Nina Canell, Nicholas Mangan, and Robin Watkins.
Unthought environments
Actions:
Price:
$55.95
(available to order)
Summary:
'Unthought Environments' explores the meeting of infrastructure and the natural elements, such as water, earth, and air. The publication features new essays by Ina Blom, Keller Easterling, and John Durham Peters, and by exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict, Peter Fend, and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen. The book also features a curator’s essay by Karsten Lund, an extensive selection of images, and a conversation with artists Nina Canell, Nicholas Mangan, and Robin Watkins.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
August 2019
August 2019
Form:
books
books
Title:
An ecotopian lexicon
An ecotopian lexicon
Actions:
Price:
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short,(...)
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short,(...)
Subject:
Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
Publication:
October 2019
October 2019
Title:
An ecotopian lexicon
Actions:
Price:
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short, engaging essays that offer ecologically productive terms—drawn from other languages, science fiction, and subcultures of resistance—to envision and inspire responses and alternatives to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism.
An ecotopian lexicon
Actions:
Price:
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short, engaging essays that offer ecologically productive terms—drawn from other languages, science fiction, and subcultures of resistance—to envision and inspire responses and alternatives to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
October 2019
October 2019
Subject:
Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Price:
$57.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Gyoergy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century's exuberant material(...)
$57.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Gyoergy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century's exuberant material(...)
Title:
Happiness by design: modernism and media in the Eames era
Actions:
Price:
$57.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Gyoergy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century's exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age.
Happiness by design: modernism and media in the Eames era
Actions:
Price:
$57.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Gyoergy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century's exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
December 2019
December 2019
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Form:
books
books
Price:
$44.00
(available in store)
Summary:
In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input(...)
$44.00
(available in store)
Summary:
In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input(...)
Title:
The responsive environment: design, aesthetics and the human in the 1970s
Actions:
Price:
$44.00
(available in store)
Summary:
In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.
The responsive environment: design, aesthetics and the human in the 1970s
Actions:
Price:
$44.00
(available in store)
Summary:
In 'The Responsive Environment', Larry D. Busbea takes up the concept of environment as an object and method of design at the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration. Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception, patterning, and control, he shows how living space itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through input from its newly sensitized inhabitants.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
January 2020
January 2020
Subject:
Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
Form:
books
books
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and(...)
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and(...)
Subject:
Archive, library and the digital
Archive, library and the digital
Publication:
July 2019
July 2019
Title:
Archives
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement.
Archives
Actions:
Price:
$26.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
July 2019
July 2019
Subject:
Archive, library and the digital
Archive, library and the digital
