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Altered and Adorned: using Renaissance prints in daily life

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Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. Altered and Adorned is a delightful, surprising look at how prints were used to create sewing patterns, affixed on walls, glued into albums and books, and in some instances even annotated, handcoloured, or cut apart. This volume introduces readers to the experimental world of printmaking in the mid-15th and 16th centuries and the array of objects it inspired, from illustrated books and sculptures to etched armour and printed sundials. It features many never-before-published treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago's rich permanent collection, along with essays on such topics as three-dimensional scientific prints and how famous paintings were reproduced on functional objects such as playing cards

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Invention, construction, communication: revues d'avant-garde de la collection Alberto Sartoris

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Parmi les abondantes ressources du fonds Alberto Sartoris conservé aux Archives de la construction moderne, la collection de revues d'art et d'architecture constitue un ensemble capital. Son secteur le plus spectaculaire est celui des "revues d'avant-garde" des années 1920 et 1930. Vitrines de l'identité propre aux différents groupes qui les publient et de la communauté qui les lie, elles sont le support d'une expérimentation visuelle foisonnante (typographie, construction de l'image). C'est elle qui justifie d'abord la sélection présentée ici, composée de couvertures emblématiques de quelque soixante titres célèbres ou - le plus souvent - méconnus. Mais ces images témoignent également d'un processus caractéristique, où les programmes utopistes et totalisants de l'avant-garde historique s'abîment dans la Crise pour se subordonner aux réalités d'une "architecture moderne" en voie d'institutionnalisation.

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The world in pocket-size format

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The World in Pocket-Size Format documents the exceptional postcard collection of Adolf Feller. In 1889 Feller, a Swiss entrepreneur, began collecting postcards on various business trips as mementos of his travels. When news of his hobby reached his friends and relatives, others began sending picture postcards as well. After his death, Feller’s daughter, Elisabeth, continued to seek out postcards from around the world. The collection now includes 54,000 postcards from 140 countries, with especially impressive examples from 1893–1930, the height of the picture postcard’s popularity. A testament to one man’s obsession, provides a new way to experience the history of the postcard as a means of both artistic expression and communication.

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Get your pics on route 66 : postcards from America's mother road

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The history of America's Mother Road seen through vintage postcards, a guide book for those who want to bring Route 66 back to life.

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Soy Cuba: Cuban cinema posters from after the revolution

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Soy Cuba presents a selection of the finest film posters produced in Cuba from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Famous around the world for their brash originality and bright, clear graphic sensibility, Cuban cinema posters of the Revolutionary era are held in as high esteem as the moodier and more abstract Polish film posters of the same era. Susan Sontag devoted a good part of her noted 1970 essay, “Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity” to the particularly satisfying paradox they present. Collected by designer Carole Goodman in collaboration with the ICAC and other Cuban specialists, this substantial compendium is a visual and intellectual treat.

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Print / Out : 20 years in print

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This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques - often used alongside digital technologies - to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist's books and ephemera. "Print/Out" features focused sections on ten artists and publishers - Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schutte and Kelley Walker.

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Esthétique du livre d'artiste:une introduction à l'art contemporain

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Cet ouvrage rend compte de la naissance et du développement du livre d'artiste aux États-Unis et en Europe en relation étroite avec les avant-gardes des années...› Lire la suite soixante et soixante-dix : poésie concrète et visuelle, Fluxus, Art minimal, Art conceptuel, Arte povera, Art narratif, Land Art, art de la performance ou du happening, notamment. Parce qu'il est inséparable de l'émergence de ces formes inédites de la création qui vont constituer l'art dit "contemporain", le livre d'artiste est une excellente introduction à la compréhension de ses principaux enjeux comme à la diversité de ses manifestations. Ce livre constitue la synthèse la plus large à ce jour de la production internationale. Depuis sa première édition en 1997, il s'est imposé en France et à l'étranger comme l'étude de référence sur le sujet. Pour cette nouvelle édition, le texte, mis à jour et augmenté, s'est enrichi de nombreuses reproductions. Plus de sept cents livres y sont analysés, par près de quatre cents artistes dont les pionniers Ben, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Herman de Vries, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allan Kaprow, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Maurizio Nannucci, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner.

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The European poster 1881-1938

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The modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. Artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of the poster as a form, as means of disseminating their work and as a source of income. New movements in late nineteenth-century art, such as Art Nouveau and Symbolism, also adapted their respective styles to commercial demands, and their graphic power was such that major poster surveys were held as early as 1884. Later on, in the early days of the Soviet avant-garde, artists like Rodchenko and Klutsis were also to apply their graphic know-how to the poster form, in the service of a new communist Russia and its booming industries. This boxed volume reproduces 175 posters from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, loose-leaf and in full color. The works have been gathered by expert Carlos Pérez from European museums and renowned international private collections. An accompanying paperback book, housed within the box, provides an historical overview. Among the 90-plus artists included here are Chéret, Ramón Casas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Alfons Mucha, Henri Matisse, Cassandre, Paul Colin, Jean Carlu, Giacomo Balla, Herbert Bayer, Otto Baumberger, John Heartfield, Vladimir Lebedev, Alexander Rodchenko, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Schlemmer, Gustav Klutsis, Robert Béreny and Fortunato Depero.

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Poster collection 24: the magic of things

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The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects—butter, a sewing machine, or shoes—are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualization, the objects acquire a sensual presence and magical aura. The product poster had its heyday in Switzerland in the 1940s with designers such as Niklaus Stoecklin, Peter Birkhauser, or Otto Baumberger. As consumer society developed, however, the exclusive focus on the product and the brand name was no longer enough—in advertising, the feelings associated with the object as it related to life grew increasingly important. Today it is in the cultural poster that the magical depiction of things is experiencing a kind of renaissance.

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New York in postcards, 1880-1980 : the Andreas Adam collection

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This book presents a unique collection of postcards of New York City. With more than 900 vintage cards spanning a whole century, it attests to the city’s urban development and shows its most beautiful buildings and landmarks in the larger context of architectural and social history.