Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
Palette: Gold and silver
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With a wealth of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional design projects, this book guides the reader through the use of unusual elements and the ways their narrative qualities are employed to create a fresh perspective on the world. Elements utilized within these pages are as varied as string, wood, plastic, gilt and paper architecture.
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
Théorie de l’art
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xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1982.
Upstate travels : British views of nineteenth-century New York / edited, with an introduction, by Roger Haydon.
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xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1982.
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Each of these great buildings is fully illustrated in three-dimensional pop-up, while informative and entertaining historical narrative tells the stories behind them. Learn how Notre Dame narrowly escaped being torn during the French Revolution, what makes the Taj Mahal a «love story in stone» and much more, with this unique and unforgettable visual experience.
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décembre 2007, San Diego
Architectural wonders : a pop-up gallery of the world's most amazing marvels
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Each of these great buildings is fully illustrated in three-dimensional pop-up, while informative and entertaining historical narrative tells the stories behind them. Learn how Notre Dame narrowly escaped being torn during the French Revolution, what makes the Taj Mahal a «love story in stone» and much more, with this unique and unforgettable visual experience.
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Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture,(...)
Comprendre l'expressionnisme
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Lionel Richard, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Expressionnisme, analyse ici l'ensemble de ce mouvement, sa nature et ses répercussions en Allemagne de 1905 aux années 1920. Il dégage, surtout, les caractères essentiels de l'esthétique "expressionniste" dans tous les domaines où elle s'est manifestée : arts plastiques, architecture, poésie et prose narrative, musique, danse, cinéma.
Théorie de l’art
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City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new(...)
The eternal city: a history of Rome
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City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of readers.
Another way
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Devoid of a running narrative, Another Way forms a collection of visual quips and puns that playfully toy with our grasp of normality. Each witticism aims to shift expectation into a place that is a little more surprising. The publication is printed in three separate colours on a Risograph printer before being handstitched. Numbered edition of 150
Another way
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Devoid of a running narrative, Another Way forms a collection of visual quips and puns that playfully toy with our grasp of normality. Each witticism aims to shift expectation into a place that is a little more surprising. The publication is printed in three separate colours on a Risograph printer before being handstitched. Numbered edition of 150
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Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned locations which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling(...)
Soviet ghosts: the soviet union abandoned, a communist empire in decay
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Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned locations which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology.
Monographies photo
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Radiance from Halcyon is an intriguing account of how the little-known utopian religious community Halcyon — located on California’s central coast in the early 1900s — profoundly influenced modern science. Paul Eli Ivey’s narrative offers a wide-ranging cultural history, encompassing Theosophy, novel healing modalities, esoteric architecture, Native American concepts of(...)
Radiance from Halcyon : a utopian experiment in religion and science
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Radiance from Halcyon is an intriguing account of how the little-known utopian religious community Halcyon — located on California’s central coast in the early 1900s — profoundly influenced modern science. Paul Eli Ivey’s narrative offers a wide-ranging cultural history, encompassing Theosophy, novel healing modalities, esoteric architecture, Native American concepts of community, socialist utopias, and innovative modern music.
Théorie de l’architecture