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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible(...)
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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible(...)
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The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture
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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.
The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture
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This book collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history — with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.
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avril 2009, New York
avril 2009, New York
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as(...)
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as(...)
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Requiem: For the city at the end of the millenium
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as assuredly as one can on death and taxes.
Requiem: For the city at the end of the millenium
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Theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of the millennium. The City is here seen not only as the last frontier of human history currently under threat of total eclipse, it is the indomitable form of collective experience upon which one can count as assuredly as one can on death and taxes.
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juin 2010
juin 2010
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and(...)
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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and(...)
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Until proven safe: the history and future of quarantine
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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus.
Until proven safe: the history and future of quarantine
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'Until Proven Safe' tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus.
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juillet 2021
juillet 2021
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this(...)
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this(...)
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2G essays: Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In dialogue
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
2G essays: Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In dialogue
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
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décembre 2025
décembre 2025
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential(...)
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential(...)
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On the natural history of destruction
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential and deeply relevant study of war and society, suffering and amnesia.
On the natural history of destruction
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential and deeply relevant study of war and society, suffering and amnesia.
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avril 2011
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968,(...)
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968,(...)
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Isamu Noguchi: a sculptor's world, 3rd edition
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968, when he created his seminal autobiography, and his death in 1988.
Isamu Noguchi: a sculptor's world, 3rd edition
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A Sculptor's World is the long-awaited reprint of Isamu Noguchi's 1968 autobiography, which Steidl last printed in 2004. It remains Noguchi's most comprehensive statement about the art that brought him international acclaim. This third edition includes the original foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller as well as a new timeline of major events in Noguchi's life between 1968, when he created his seminal autobiography, and his death in 1988.
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mars 2015
mars 2015
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The melancholy art
The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art(...)
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art(...)
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The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft.
The melancholy art
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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft.
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mars 2013
mars 2013
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Théorie de l’art
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's(...)
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's(...)
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avril 2012
avril 2012
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Louise Bourgeois: The return of the repressed
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise a complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.
Louise Bourgeois: The return of the repressed
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Selected and edited by Philip Larratt-Smith (Bourgeois' literary archivist), and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays, this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artist's production. The second volume is an impressive, up-to-date Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artist's death in 2010. Together, the two volumes comprise a complete portrait of the life, work and thought of this seminal figure.
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avril 2012
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et(...)
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et(...)
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Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et d'alimenter les controverses autour des visions parfois opposées entre usagers de la ville et professionnels.
Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
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Jane Jacobs passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles...) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et d'alimenter les controverses autour des visions parfois opposées entre usagers de la ville et professionnels.
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octobre 2012
octobre 2012
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Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project(...)
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project(...)
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Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project buit by the architect. This publication includes Salmona's most important buildings built during the past decade.
Rogelio Salmona : a tribute
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This monograph, which continues an investigation published in 1998, documents and analyses 12 of the most significant projects built by Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona during the past decade until his death in 2007. Conceived as a tribute to his memory and his architectural legacy, it is also a complement to the first book, which documented the majorityof the project buit by the architect. This publication includes Salmona's most important buildings built during the past decade.
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février 2010
février 2010
