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The magic of photography is its unique power to capture a moment in the past to be viewed in the present, to capture a subject suspended between life and death. This evocative, beautifully written catalog from Japan's Izu Photo Museum documents an inspired exhibition that looks into photography's mystical way of suspending time. Even with the relatively recent(...)
Suspending time: Life - photography - death
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The magic of photography is its unique power to capture a moment in the past to be viewed in the present, to capture a subject suspended between life and death. This evocative, beautifully written catalog from Japan's Izu Photo Museum documents an inspired exhibition that looks into photography's mystical way of suspending time. Even with the relatively recent inclusion of vernacular photos in photography collections, the study of the art form has remained almost entirely Euro-centric. In Suspending Time, curator Geoffrey Batchen opens the door to using Japanese vernacular photos. With over 100 plates of cabinet cards, Daguerreotypes, photography jewelry, tintypes, Japanese ambrotypes, and Mexican sculptures.
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The spirit of chairs
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The chairs in this private collection are not an assembly of objects of everyday use. They are a congregation of creatures often eluding their primary purpose as seating. Metaphorically exaggerated height and disassociation transform the chairs into individuals, or sculptures exploring the uncertain boundaries of physics. The book’s generous layout allows readers to(...)
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The chairs in this private collection are not an assembly of objects of everyday use. They are a congregation of creatures often eluding their primary purpose as seating. Metaphorically exaggerated height and disassociation transform the chairs into individuals, or sculptures exploring the uncertain boundaries of physics. The book’s generous layout allows readers to immerse themselves in this cabinet of curiosities and give their imagination free rein. Nicolas Polli and Jean Vincent Simonet use their photographic essays to interpret the exhibits originating from well-known artists and designers. The texts illustrate the collection in terms of the friction between art and design. They explain the collection’s significance in the life of the collector, and they discuss the general motives that lead to a passion for collecting.
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Atlas de botanique poétique
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Botaniste, explorateur des forêts tropicales équatoriales qu'il sillonne depuis quarante ans, carnet de croquis en main, Francis Hallé nous invite dans cet Atlas de botanique poétique à un voyage illustré à la rencontre de plantes extraordinaires. Des innombrables carnets d'expédition qui tapissent les étagères de son bureau à Montpellier, il a extrait un échantillon des(...)
Atlas de botanique poétique
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Botaniste, explorateur des forêts tropicales équatoriales qu'il sillonne depuis quarante ans, carnet de croquis en main, Francis Hallé nous invite dans cet Atlas de botanique poétique à un voyage illustré à la rencontre de plantes extraordinaires. Des innombrables carnets d'expédition qui tapissent les étagères de son bureau à Montpellier, il a extrait un échantillon des spécimens les plus étonnants. De Codariocalyx motorius, la plante qui danse, aux Solanaceae d'Argentine, ces arbres souterrains dont on n'aperçoit qu'un tapis de feuilles au sol, leurs modes de développement et d'adaptation dépassent souvent notre compréhension pour enchanter notre imagination. Exubérantes, énigmatiques, dotées d'aptitudes surprenantes, les merveilles végétales présentées dans ce cabinet de curiosités inattendu plaident en faveur de la sauvegarde des forêts tropicales aujourd'hui gravement menacées.
The Swedish house
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The traditions of residential design in Sweden are inseparable from the history of the country itself and from the history of construction in Scandinavia. This illustrated volume presents historic wood houses - castles, cottages, stately homes, rectories, seaside bathing huts, barns and sawmills - from the seventeenth century to the present. Also shown in detail are(...)
The Swedish house
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The traditions of residential design in Sweden are inseparable from the history of the country itself and from the history of construction in Scandinavia. This illustrated volume presents historic wood houses - castles, cottages, stately homes, rectories, seaside bathing huts, barns and sawmills - from the seventeenth century to the present. Also shown in detail are wooden churches and even entire towns built of wood. Among the buildings featured are a farmhouse on the Sorby country estate dating from the second half of the seventeenth century; the childhood home and the adult estate, Hammarby, of the influential botanist LLinnaeus (complete with lecture pulpit and specimen collection cabinet): and Gunnebo, a lavish wooden interpretation of an Italian villa built for wealthy merchant John Hall. With photographs by Ingalill Snitt.
Histoire jusqu’à 1900
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Aujourd’hui, les musées sont plus que jamais au centre des problématiques culturelles, sociales et économiques de nos sociétés. Et la muséologie occupe désormais une place incontournable dans le champ des sciences sociales. Ce dictionnaire, réunissant une équipe d'experts internationaux, vient, en plus de 1200 entrées organisées en 7 thématiques, définir, analyser et(...)
Dictionnaire de muséologie, nouvelle édition
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Aujourd’hui, les musées sont plus que jamais au centre des problématiques culturelles, sociales et économiques de nos sociétés. Et la muséologie occupe désormais une place incontournable dans le champ des sciences sociales. Ce dictionnaire, réunissant une équipe d'experts internationaux, vient, en plus de 1200 entrées organisées en 7 thématiques, définir, analyser et mettre en perspective l'ensemble des termes utilisés dans le champ muséal, des plus académiques (exposition, artefact, patrimoine immatériel, cabinet de curiosité) aux plus innovants (digital curatorship, memory spots, cybermusée...). Un ouvrage de référence couvrant à la fois les domaines de la muséologie, de l’exposition, des méthodes de recherche, de gestion des collections et de conservation/restauration, de l’éducation muséale et la médiation, dans la gestion/marketing, de l’histoire et de l’analyse critique du musée.
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The Madrid-based studio Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos (GdlF) takes on a paradoxical challenge: in an almost entirely built urban landscape, they care for the unbuilt environment. Instead of focusing only on new architecture, the team led by Natalia Gutiérrez and Julio de la Fuente adapts existing spaces, revealing their hidden potential. Their approach – working with(...)
Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, Madrid: Shaping the unbuilt environment
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The Madrid-based studio Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos (GdlF) takes on a paradoxical challenge: in an almost entirely built urban landscape, they care for the unbuilt environment. Instead of focusing only on new architecture, the team led by Natalia Gutiérrez and Julio de la Fuente adapts existing spaces, revealing their hidden potential. Their approach – working with the already-there – understands the unbuilt as a crucial component of an ecological transformation. The exhibition at Aedes, curated by Kaye Geipel and Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, presents sustainable strategies for improving in-between spaces through selected projects in Germany, Belgium, Spain, the UK and Switzerland. A central element is the film installation European Encounter Cabinet, in which international experts close to the studio share their perspectives on the future of architecture and urban planning in European cities and territories.
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The big archive
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The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past. Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a(...)
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The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive’s content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the “living” past. Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways—from what Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp’s “anemic archive” of readymades and El Lissitzky’s Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In "The big archive", Sven Spieker investigates the archive—as both bureaucratic institution and index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art—and finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism.
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The celebrated British architect Sir John Soane (1753–1837) created his extraordinary house-museum from three properties in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.There, in houses that embody both his architectural vision and his passion for collecting, Soane exhibited a marvellous array of artefacts, including an outstanding collection of plaster casts, and idiosyncratic items(...)
Sir John Soane's museum London
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The celebrated British architect Sir John Soane (1753–1837) created his extraordinary house-museum from three properties in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.There, in houses that embody both his architectural vision and his passion for collecting, Soane exhibited a marvellous array of artefacts, including an outstanding collection of plaster casts, and idiosyncratic items ranging from mummified cats to the sarcophagus of the Egyptian king Seti I. Soane intended the collection to be an ‘Academy of Architecture’ that would inspire students for generations to come, and today it continues to attract more than 90,000 visitors every year.Written by the present director of the museum and featuring specially commissioned photographs by Derry Moore, this absorbing account of a unique, perpetually surprising cabinet of curiosities offers a fascinating insight into the genius of an exceptional man.
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Sanctuary
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This fictional work about the construction and decay of a late modernist building can also be read as an essay on our contemporary unease with modernism in general. Author Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine, based it on research into St. Peter's Seminary, a college complex commissioned by the Catholic Church in the 1950s, completed in 1968, and abandoned by 1980.(...)
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This fictional work about the construction and decay of a late modernist building can also be read as an essay on our contemporary unease with modernism in general. Author Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine, based it on research into St. Peter's Seminary, a college complex commissioned by the Catholic Church in the 1950s, completed in 1968, and abandoned by 1980. On the outskirts of Glasgow - itself a city with a vexed relationship to Le Corbusier-esque modernism - the building is rich with histories: of its architects, its residing student priests, the drug addicts it once housed and treated, and the local teenagers for whom it is a kind of Gothic recreation center. This book takes the material remains of modernism and treats them from a literary point of view.
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This book examines Dutch commemorative coins which will continue to be minted, despite the introduction of the Euro. In a lyrical article, Gert Staal explores the sentimental and symbolical significance of coins. The results of a workshop ‘Design by the mm3’, in which eleven artist/designers took part, is discussed in an article by Lilet Breddels and presented in numerous(...)
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janvier 2002,
Design by the mm3 munt : picturing coins
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This book examines Dutch commemorative coins which will continue to be minted, despite the introduction of the Euro. In a lyrical article, Gert Staal explores the sentimental and symbolical significance of coins. The results of a workshop ‘Design by the mm3’, in which eleven artist/designers took part, is discussed in an article by Lilet Breddels and presented in numerous illustrations. Gerard Unger subverts his own specialization in typography by arguing that artists are perfectly capable of creating their own lettering for coin designs. Hans Jacobi, keeper of the Koninklijke Penningen Kabinet (Royal Coins Cabinet) in Leiden, throws light on the vicissitudes of Dutch coin design during the last twenty years. In an epilogue, Janwillem Schrofer, a member of the Advisory Commission for New Coinage and the president of the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, presents his outlook on the importance of good coin design.
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janvier 2002,
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