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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and(...)
Until proven safe: the history and future of quarantine
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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus.
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential(...)
On the natural history of destruction
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential and deeply relevant study of war and society, suffering and amnesia.
The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art(...)
The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft.
Art Theory
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this(...)
2G essays: Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In dialogue
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
Architecture Monographs
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968,(...)
Isamu Noguchi: a sculptor's world, 3rd edition
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968, when he created his seminal autobiography, and his death in 1988.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's(...)
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Louise Bourgeois: The return of the repressed
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise a complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.
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Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project(...)
Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project buit by the architect. This publication includes Salmona's most important buildings built during the past decade.
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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a compendium of Wright's most critically important writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Beginning early in Wright's career with The Art and Craft of the Machine in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City , The Natural House , and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957 , published(...)
The essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical writings on architecture
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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a compendium of Wright's most critically important writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Beginning early in Wright's career with The Art and Craft of the Machine in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City , The Natural House , and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957 , published two years before his death. This volume is illustrated with original drawings and photographs.
Architectural Theory
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et(...)
Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et d'alimenter les controverses autour des visions parfois opposées entre usagers de la ville et professionnels.
Urban Theory
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In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this ''infrastructural brutalism''—a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the(...)
Infrastructural brutalism: Art and the necropolitics of infrastructure
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In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this ''infrastructural brutalism''—a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological brutality of industrial infrastructures.
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