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In ''Japanese Creativity'', Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagawa sets out to try to determine the roots of a particularly Japanese architectural style by analyzing a wide variety of exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present. Developing his theory out of close observation and practical knowledge and constantly shifting between historical and more recent(...)
Japanese creativity: contemplations on Japanese architecture
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In ''Japanese Creativity'', Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagawa sets out to try to determine the roots of a particularly Japanese architectural style by analyzing a wide variety of exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present. Developing his theory out of close observation and practical knowledge and constantly shifting between historical and more recent examples, Edagawa isolates what he considers to be the distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition: intimacy with nature, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space and an appreciation for organic form. He finds these qualities across Japanese design, and from these extrapolates a theory of Japanese architectural creation.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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'Unearthed' presents a broad spectrum of Talasnik’s work spanning the last decade, starting with floating sculptures commissioned by the Denver Botanic Garden, continuing on through projects at Storm King Art Center and Russel Wright Design Center, and culminating with a 30-foot-high timber sculpture at the new, highly lauded Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana. Numerous(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
December 2018
Unearthed. Stephen Talasnik: drawings, sculpture, installations
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'Unearthed' presents a broad spectrum of Talasnik’s work spanning the last decade, starting with floating sculptures commissioned by the Denver Botanic Garden, continuing on through projects at Storm King Art Center and Russel Wright Design Center, and culminating with a 30-foot-high timber sculpture at the new, highly lauded Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana. Numerous examples of Talasnik’s drawings are also included, as well as smaller-scale indoor and outdoor sculptures in diverse materials.
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Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
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Tara Donovan's sculptures and installations are mind-bending experiences: she transforms common everyday materials like straws and index cards turning them into elaborate, room-size sculptures that are as surreal as they are beautiful. MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Tara Donovan's otherworldly sculptures have transfixed audiences for over a decade. Taking mundane(...)
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
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Tara Donovan's sculptures and installations are mind-bending experiences: she transforms common everyday materials like straws and index cards turning them into elaborate, room-size sculptures that are as surreal as they are beautiful. MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Tara Donovan's otherworldly sculptures have transfixed audiences for over a decade. Taking mundane materials and through clever craftsmanship, ingenuity, and repeated manipulation, the artist builds large-scale works made of rubber bands, plastic tubing, and paper plates into objects that evoke the natural world or other organic material. This volume--which accompanies a major exhibition at MCA Denver--features an expansive selection of her most significant works to date, including sculpture, drawings, works on paper, and site-responsive installations.
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Elmgreen and Dragset
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Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's work reconfigures the familiar. This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan(...)
Elmgreen and Dragset
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Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's work reconfigures the familiar. This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Herman De Vries was trained as a horticulturist and worked as a natural scientist. He started to draw and paint in the mid-1950s. His early works were composed of white paintings and sculptures, which he defined as "informal" because they bore no figuration or color. With these works, he investigated the idea of "randomness" as a principle of order with the aim of(...)
herman de vries chance & change
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Herman De Vries was trained as a horticulturist and worked as a natural scientist. He started to draw and paint in the mid-1950s. His early works were composed of white paintings and sculptures, which he defined as "informal" because they bore no figuration or color. With these works, he investigated the idea of "randomness" as a principle of order with the aim of achieving absolute objectivity. During this time, he was actively involved in the exhibitions and publications of the international ZERO movement. From 1964 onward, his concern for the relationship between humanity and nature took a leading role in his work, and he developed a unique oeuvre in which he juxtaposed art, science, and philosophy with the reality of the world. In 1975, he decided that the phenomena and processes of nature constitute the physical and autonomous work of art that he, as an artist, should represent.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This comprehensive volume, published for the artist's exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, combines key works from Turrell's various phases. Among the works included are ''Sloan Red'', one of his early projections in which geometric light objects appear to float in space. A piece from 2016, from the important series of ''Wedgeworks'', shows how the(...)
James Turrell: extraordinary ideas, realized
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This comprehensive volume, published for the artist's exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, combines key works from Turrell's various phases. Among the works included are ''Sloan Red'', one of his early projections in which geometric light objects appear to float in space. A piece from 2016, from the important series of ''Wedgeworks'', shows how the artist creates illusionist spatial situations using light. The "ganzfeld" experiment ''Apani'', which attracted much attention at the Venice Biennale in 2011, allows the visitor to experience how all imaginable spatial contours can be made to dissolve in light and color. Turrell's famous long-term project ''Roden Crater''- an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert, which the artist has been converting into a kind of observatory since the 1970s- is also represented here, alongside artworks created especially for the Museum Frieder Burda.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ce livre retrace le parcours de Kara Walker et revient sur l'histoire de la réception d'une œuvre qui affronte les limites de la représentation, en posant la question de la figuration du corps noir.
Les mauvais sentiments : l’art de Kara Walker
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Ce livre retrace le parcours de Kara Walker et revient sur l'histoire de la réception d'une œuvre qui affronte les limites de la représentation, en posant la question de la figuration du corps noir.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Lee Ufan invite le spectateur à engager un dialogue silencieux et serein avec ses œuvres. Après un séjour au Couvent de la Tourette, l’artiste s’est imprégné de l’esprit de ce lieu habité et de l’architecture de Le Corbusier. Il propose un ensemble d’œuvres qu’il met en relation avec l’architecture du couvent, suscitant un nouveau dialogue dans la continuité des ceux(...)
Lee Ufan chez Le Corbusier : au-delà des souvenirs : couvent de La Tourette : 14e biennale d'art contemporain
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Lee Ufan invite le spectateur à engager un dialogue silencieux et serein avec ses œuvres. Après un séjour au Couvent de la Tourette, l’artiste s’est imprégné de l’esprit de ce lieu habité et de l’architecture de Le Corbusier. Il propose un ensemble d’œuvres qu’il met en relation avec l’architecture du couvent, suscitant un nouveau dialogue dans la continuité des ceux créés par les précédents artistes invités à La Tourette, dont François Morellet et Anish Kapoor.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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''Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life'' documents the artist's exhibition at David Zwirner's Chelsea location in New York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic ''My Eternal Soul'' series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment and two ''Infinity Mirror Rooms''. The monograph includes new scholarship on the artist by Jenni(...)
Yayoi Kusama: Festival of life
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''Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life'' documents the artist's exhibition at David Zwirner's Chelsea location in New York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic ''My Eternal Soul'' series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment and two ''Infinity Mirror Rooms''. The monograph includes new scholarship on the artist by Jenni Sorkin, as well as a special foldout poster.
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This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono (born 1933) combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–18 with drawings from the Franklin Summer series Ono started in 1994. For Ono, words, artworks and books still have the power to change the world we live in for the better. Thus she continuously shares with us her(...)
Yoko Ono: everything in the universe is unfinished
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This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono (born 1933) combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–18 with drawings from the Franklin Summer series Ono started in 1994. For Ono, words, artworks and books still have the power to change the world we live in for the better. Thus she continuously shares with us her vision and philosophy toward life—one that is made of pivotal experiences, unstoppable optimism and a love for the other. Coming after several volumes that have proved to be life companions for many, "Everything in the Universe Is Unfinished" reflects on her most recent feelings through a delicate interweaving of poems, aphorisms, short stories and drawings.
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