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Qui ne connaît pas la Sagrada Familia à Barcelone ? C'est actuelle-ment l'un des monuments les plus visités d'Espagne. À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans cette Catalogne qui cherche un nouveau souffle artistique, l'architecture s'englue dans des constructions traditionnelles. Les architectes pastichent les édifices médiévaux ou surchargent les structures, poussés par de(...)
Antonin Gaudi 1852-1926: Un architecte de génie
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Qui ne connaît pas la Sagrada Familia à Barcelone ? C'est actuelle-ment l'un des monuments les plus visités d'Espagne. À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans cette Catalogne qui cherche un nouveau souffle artistique, l'architecture s'englue dans des constructions traditionnelles. Les architectes pastichent les édifices médiévaux ou surchargent les structures, poussés par de nouveaux riches aux goûts ostentatoires. La Catalogne dans laquelle va créer Gaudi est celle de la révolution industrielle, d'une expansion économique et culturelle sans précédent ; c'est aussi une période de troubles civils. Gaudi (1852-1926), d'origine modeste, est un homme ingénu, timide, mais à l'intelligence hors du commun, aux connaissances universelles et à l'imagination sans limites. Sa dévotion en fera un créateur ascétique inspiré. Représentant essentiel du modernisme catalan, il trouve dans les éléments son inspiration architectonique autant qu'ornementale_ Sa capacité d'observation lui permet de saisir les lois que lui enseigne la nature, qu'il transpose et transforme en oeuvres d'art. Et l'ensemble créatif de ce géant de l'" Art nouveau " dépasse toute tentative de classification. Cet homme paradoxal en bien des domaines, qui n'a pas créé d'école et qui a laissé peu d'écrits, est méconnu. Cependant peu d'architectes peuvent s'enorgueillir d'avoir sept oeuvres classées par l'UNESCO au Patrimoine mondial de l'humanité. Admiré par Le Corbusier, Friedensreich Hundertwasser ou Oscar Niemeyer, Gaudi est un immense créateur que cette biographie vous invite à découvrir.
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First published in 1944, Bruno Munari's Fotocronache, here translated into English, was and remains one of the finest, most amusing, and most significant lessons on the uses of photography for communication. With his charming, generous wit and inimitable perceptive abilities, Munari offers a zinging analysis of the power of the image--as a communicator of specific(...)
Photo-Reportage: fotocronache
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First published in 1944, Bruno Munari's Fotocronache, here translated into English, was and remains one of the finest, most amusing, and most significant lessons on the uses of photography for communication. With his charming, generous wit and inimitable perceptive abilities, Munari offers a zinging analysis of the power of the image--as a communicator of specific knowledge and a site into which completely other knowledge can be read.
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Rockstars
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From Chuck Berry to Cure, the Rolling Stones and Interpol, this book is an impassioned parade of rock stars, selected, feted, consumed and, finally, drawn by Fausto Gilberti. Not an exhaustive catalogue but a personal view through pictures of the world of rock: from a childhood at full blast to secret detection of future celebrities, his enthusiasm for the stars of(...)
Rockstars
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From Chuck Berry to Cure, the Rolling Stones and Interpol, this book is an impassioned parade of rock stars, selected, feted, consumed and, finally, drawn by Fausto Gilberti. Not an exhaustive catalogue but a personal view through pictures of the world of rock: from a childhood at full blast to secret detection of future celebrities, his enthusiasm for the stars of rock is a tribute to the emotions this music naturally unleashes.
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As the name suggests, crossbills have a crossed beak so they can crush pine cones and feed off the pine kernels inside. Pelicans instead use their big bucket beak to scoop up the fish and swallow them whole for a quick snack. The endless different shapes and sizes of beaks are determined by what they eat, how they eat it, the natural environment and the species they(...)
Bird beak book
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As the name suggests, crossbills have a crossed beak so they can crush pine cones and feed off the pine kernels inside. Pelicans instead use their big bucket beak to scoop up the fish and swallow them whole for a quick snack. The endless different shapes and sizes of beaks are determined by what they eat, how they eat it, the natural environment and the species they belong to. Oscar Bolton Green’s clear-cut line drawings and brilliant colours explain the many different variations with the same simplicity as the accompanying text. His immediate, essential style, with its patches of colour and clarity of line, shows how tiny hummingbirds stretch into the flowers to draw out the nectar and how graceful flamingo dips its spoon-shaped beak beneath the surface of the water.
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Nella foresta del bradipo
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In the mild, humid climate of the Amazon forest, the sloth spends its entire life wrapped round the same tree, impassive and untouched by the light and sounds around it. It sleeps on regardless of the sudden arrival of the deforestation machinery: caterpillars, trucks, excavators and mechanical shears that rumble through the forest, scaring off all the other animals.The(...)
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février 2011
Nella foresta del bradipo
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In the mild, humid climate of the Amazon forest, the sloth spends its entire life wrapped round the same tree, impassive and untouched by the light and sounds around it. It sleeps on regardless of the sudden arrival of the deforestation machinery: caterpillars, trucks, excavators and mechanical shears that rumble through the forest, scaring off all the other animals.The book tells the story of the sloth and its proverbial slowness, which is now placing it in danger from man’s short-sighted and tragic encroachment. Fourteen pop-up pages examine the gradual erosion of the Amazon forest. As we leaf through the pages, animals and trees appear before our eyes and in our hands, as if we were in a natural environment that is constantly changing. This book was printed with environmentally friendly soy ink on paper from responsible forests. Every year 13 million hectares of forest disappear. 90% of the deforestation is illegal and is threatening the survival of numerous species, including the Brazilian three-toed sloth. However, there is still time to prevent this destruction.
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Un sedicesimo 19a : helmo
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Don’t forget to fold all the pages of the Helmo issue : the words and drawings arranged in what seems like random order will be transformed before your eyes into whole sentences and pictures of rounded faces full of colour.
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février 2010
Un sedicesimo 19a : helmo
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Don’t forget to fold all the pages of the Helmo issue : the words and drawings arranged in what seems like random order will be transformed before your eyes into whole sentences and pictures of rounded faces full of colour.
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This issue has been made without using a computer : the printing film was processed entirely by hand, tracing and gluing pointed shapes, made from scraps of paper and then made to overlap. After that the printing plates were impressed and produced used traditional methods : the result is a sixteen-page “adventure in photolithography” of faces and objects.
Littérature jeunesse
février 2010
Un sedicesimo 19b : che mi passa per la testa?, un'avventura fotolitica di Atelier Vostok
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This issue has been made without using a computer : the printing film was processed entirely by hand, tracing and gluing pointed shapes, made from scraps of paper and then made to overlap. After that the printing plates were impressed and produced used traditional methods : the result is a sixteen-page “adventure in photolithography” of faces and objects.
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During a passage to India, the author was struck by the sacred cows that crossed his path. An assortment of paint, vegetable wreaths and varying sizes of cloth decoration, the way they are adorned is often confined to a very limited area or a particular village and can change radically only a short distance away. This striking custom is illustrated in a series of clear(...)
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février 2010
Un Sedicesimo 18 : Toni Meneguzzo
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During a passage to India, the author was struck by the sacred cows that crossed his path. An assortment of paint, vegetable wreaths and varying sizes of cloth decoration, the way they are adorned is often confined to a very limited area or a particular village and can change radically only a short distance away. This striking custom is illustrated in a series of clear and direct photographs against a neutral background.
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General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as a generic identity to free the artists "from the tyranny of individual genius." Under the leadership of their fictitious muse Miss General Idea, and inspired by William Burroughs' conception of the "image virus," the collective interrogated media image culture through now legendary(...)
General idea: haute culture, a retrospective, 1969-1994
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General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as a generic identity to free the artists "from the tyranny of individual genius." Under the leadership of their fictitious muse Miss General Idea, and inspired by William Burroughs' conception of the "image virus," the collective interrogated media image culture through now legendary projects like File magazine, as well as paintings, installations, sculptures, mail art, photographs, videos, ephemera, TV programs and even a beauty pageant. General Idea came to an end in 1994, when Partz and Zontal died of AIDS. Today General Idea can be seen to anticipate the later art collectives of the 1970s as well as aspects of Relational Aesthetics in the 1990s. This volume presents an overview of the Canadian collective''s bold mingling of reality and fiction and their frequently transgressive, parodic incursions upon both art and society. Including newly commissioned essays and reprinted texts, this volume is richly illustrated with documents and reproductions of the most significant projects realized by General Idea between 1969 and 1994. Exhibited at ARC/Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto in 2011.
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Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose - and, if at all possible, cure - the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch,(...)
Critical theory: a very short introduction
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Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose - and, if at all possible, cure - the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.
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