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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on(...)
Venice's most loyal city: Civic identity in Renaissance Brescia
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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on dismembering the Venetian empire. In spite of all these troubles the city experienced a cultural revival and a dramatic political transformation under Venetian rule, which Bowd describes and uses to illuminate the process of state formation in one of the most powerful regions of Renaissance Italy.
Kati Horna
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The photographic oeuvre of Kati Horna (1912-2000) spans decades, geographical boundaries and visual practices. Horna witnessed the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the outbreak of World War I, which ousted her from Budapest--after which she moved to Berlin, then Paris; and the Spanish Civil War, after which World War II prompted her final move to Mexico, her adopted(...)
JUAN MANUEL BONET
ESTRELLA DE DIEGO
PETAR BAKI
JEAN FRANÇOIS CHEVRIER
NORAH HORNA
ÁNGELES ALONSO ESPINOSA
Monographies photo
août 2014
Kati Horna
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The photographic oeuvre of Kati Horna (1912-2000) spans decades, geographical boundaries and visual practices. Horna witnessed the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the outbreak of World War I, which ousted her from Budapest--after which she moved to Berlin, then Paris; and the Spanish Civil War, after which World War II prompted her final move to Mexico, her adopted country. It was in Mexico that Horna found her artistic community, among the Surrealist ex-pats Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Edward James. Even as a war photographer, she appropriated Surrealist photomontage, developing an original, intimate style of photojournalism.
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Les Incas
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui(...)
Les Incas
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Aujourd'hui encore, l'or des Incas, les ruines mystérieuses de leurs cités et le mythe d'un empire juste et bienveillant nourrissent le rêve des voyageurs. Aux alentours de 1400 de notre ère, alors que la partie andine de l'Amérique du Sud est morcelée en de multiples royaumes et seigneuries, un petit peuple montagnard, les Incas, se lance dans une suite de conquêtes qui l'amène à constituer rapidement le plus grand État jamais connu dans l'Amérique précolombienne. L'empire inca représente l'étape ultime du développement d'une civilisation très ancienne, celle du Pérou antique, que son isolement, jusqu'à la conquête espagnole, a rendue particulièrement originale.
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Quand on demande aux auteurs des Ghettos du Gotha ce qu'ils entendent par là, Michel Pinçon et Monique Pinçon-Charlot répondent qu'il s'agit d'un internement de riches choisis - et non subi. Procédant davantage par création ex-nihilo que par reconstruction sur tabula rasa, cette dynamique spatiale débute avec la "société de cour" mais se systématise sous le Second Empire,(...)
Les nouveaux ghettos du Gotha : chroniques d'un quinquennat français et d'une crise mondiale, 2007-2012
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Quand on demande aux auteurs des Ghettos du Gotha ce qu'ils entendent par là, Michel Pinçon et Monique Pinçon-Charlot répondent qu'il s'agit d'un internement de riches choisis - et non subi. Procédant davantage par création ex-nihilo que par reconstruction sur tabula rasa, cette dynamique spatiale débute avec la "société de cour" mais se systématise sous le Second Empire, avec des lieux comme Arcachon, Biarritz, Vichy ou Deauville. Dans son essai, Boris Veblen tente, à travers le storytelling de l'industrie du luxe, des palaces ou de l'art contemporain, de percevoir la résurgence BCBG de ces quasi gated communities. Dans la France de Nicolas Sarkozy comme dans la mondialisation victorieuse des BRIC.
Théorie de l’architecture
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building(...)
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The buildings that revolutionized architecture
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building unique, or groundbreaking? How do function, environment, and technology impact an architect’s vision? These questions and more are succinctly addressed in this wide-ranging tour of 100 of the world’s most important manmade structures. This compilation spans the ancient to the modern eras and represents nearly every continent.
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First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibility of love under Empire. The Young-Girl is consumer society's total product and model citizen: whatever "type" of Young-Girl she may embody, whether by whim or concerted performance, she can only seduce by consuming. Filled with the language of French women's(...)
Preliminary materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
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First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibility of love under Empire. The Young-Girl is consumer society's total product and model citizen: whatever "type" of Young-Girl she may embody, whether by whim or concerted performance, she can only seduce by consuming. Filled with the language of French women's magazines, rooted in Proust's figure of Albertine and the amusing misery of (teenage) romance in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke, and informed by Pierre Klossowski's notion of "living currency" and libidinal economy, the essay diagnoses -- and makes visible -- a phenomenon that is so ubiquitous as to have become transparent.
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C Magazine 161 : Stop!
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This issue of C Magazine considers what it might mean to stop. Rather than denote absence, the stop offers an opening for something else to emerge. Across these pages, contributors explore stopping in: forms of rest, blockades, town halls, and critiques of the temporality and archives of empire. From blockades on Wet’suwet’en land to an underground hub in Jakarta, from(...)
C Magazine 161 : Stop!
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This issue of C Magazine considers what it might mean to stop. Rather than denote absence, the stop offers an opening for something else to emerge. Across these pages, contributors explore stopping in: forms of rest, blockades, town halls, and critiques of the temporality and archives of empire. From blockades on Wet’suwet’en land to an underground hub in Jakarta, from moccasins cradling lichen to Lebanon’s El-Mina port, each work gathers its own form of interruption. With contributors: Whess Harman, Hung Duong and Grace Samboh, Svetlana Romanova, Fan Wu, Meagan Christou, Mitra Fakhrashrafi, Emma Steen, Charlene K. Lau, Dot Tuer, Joyce Joumaa, Ali El-Darsa, Kay Rangel, Jasmine Sihra.
Revues
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L'architecture et le design partagent un même souci des formes, tous deux les considérant moins pour ce qu'elles sont que pour ce qu'elles peuvent, pour ce qu'elles engagent et ouvrent comme possibilités. N'aspirant pas à avoir empire sur elles, ils assumeraient, l'un et l'autre à leur manière, de gouverner les formes, au sens d'un ménagement (das Schonen), pour que(...)
Du gouvernement des formes : Essai sur l'architecture et le design
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L'architecture et le design partagent un même souci des formes, tous deux les considérant moins pour ce qu'elles sont que pour ce qu'elles peuvent, pour ce qu'elles engagent et ouvrent comme possibilités. N'aspirant pas à avoir empire sur elles, ils assumeraient, l'un et l'autre à leur manière, de gouverner les formes, au sens d'un ménagement (das Schonen), pour que dérivent d'elles tant l'apparence que l'utilité de bâtiments, d'objets nouveaux entre autres choses. Au sein de cet essai, David Bihanic s'attelle à clarifier la contribution commune de l'architecture et du design au dessein des formes, précisant en quoi celle-ci s'avèrerait tout entière retenue à un accomplissement.
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Michael Kohlhaas
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Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he pursues are stymied—but Kohlhaas, determined to find justice at all costs, tirelessly persists. Standing up against the bureaucratic machine of the empire, Kohlhaas becomes an(...)
Michael Kohlhaas
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Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he pursues are stymied—but Kohlhaas, determined to find justice at all costs, tirelessly persists. Standing up against the bureaucratic machine of the empire, Kohlhaas becomes an indomitable figure that you can’t help rooting for from start to finish. Knotty, darkly comical, magnificent in its weirdness, and one of the greatest and most influential tales in German literature, this short novel, first published in German in 1810, is now available in award-winning Michael Hofmann’s sparkling new English translation.
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Paris, capital of modernity
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In Paris, capital of modernity, Harvey presents an account of the city in a remarkably turbulent era, framed by two failed revolutions. His key concern is how a new form of finance capitalism combined with a new type of planning vision to produce the prototypical modern city. Also, there are insights throughout about subjects such as the birth of the consumerist(...)
Paris, capital of modernity
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In Paris, capital of modernity, Harvey presents an account of the city in a remarkably turbulent era, framed by two failed revolutions. His key concern is how a new form of finance capitalism combined with a new type of planning vision to produce the prototypical modern city. Also, there are insights throughout about subjects such as the birth of the consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards; the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire, and Zola; and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacré Coeur, the Catholic monument erected to efface all memory of the revolutionary Paris Commune that arose briefly when the empire collapsed.