Art & Photography Books
Thorntree Press Psyche
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Oro Editions Curb-scale Hong Kong: Narratives of
Book SynopsisCurb-scale Hong Kong is about the infrastructural objects that constitute the street in Hong Kong. Through drawing and text, the book renders these objects visible and argues for their relevance as story tellers and civic protagonists. The book opens an alternative imagination of infrastructure and asserts the importance of the ground to Hong Kong’s urban realm. The book is structured around measured plan drawings of five streets in Hong Kong. The drawings represent stopping points in a desire to draw everything. This impossible task resulted in documents suspended between narrative and a stilled, abstract distance. Details of growth, error, decay, undoing, and repair provide a register of happenings and becomings. Each drawing speaks of an entanglement between the objects and agencies of Hong Kong’s urban realm. A second axonometric index names and examines these objects, registering more closely the material and technical decisions that give them their qualities. Texts that accompany the drawings are coincident descriptions; they thicken the street plans and index. Longer-form opening and closing essays situate the curb-scale within architecture’s contemporary engagement with infrastructure and with the practice of architectural drawing.
£29.25
Daylight Books We Keep Swimming Until We All Reach Home
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£39.75
Daylight Books Recover and Release
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£39.00
New York Consolidated Aki Sasamoto Point Reflection
Book SynopsisSpiraling snail shells form the basis for Sasamoto's latest performance and installation worksPublished on the occasion of her standout solo exhibition at the Queens Museum, Point Reflection is the first major volume devoted to the work of New Yorkbased artist Aki Sasamoto (born 1980). Conceived as an artist's book, Point Reflection centers on Sasamoto's major installation Sink or Float, first presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Building on the artist's idiosyncratic research into snail shell chiralitythe direction in which the shell coilsas a cypher for thinking through questions of change, aging, (non)normativity, vulnerability and natural processes, Point Reflection brings together the diagrammatic visions, narrative experimentation, structured improvisations and stream-of-consciousness monologues characteristic of her performances and installations. The book features writing and drawings by Sasamoto, a critical essay by Lumi
£24.29
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Clark Little: The Art of Waves
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£26.40
The London Stereoscopic Company Cosmic Clouds 3-D: Where Stars Are Born
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£28.00
Impress The Door Opened: 1980s China: Photography: Adrian
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£57.00
Martello Taoisigh and the Arts
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£11.69
Gallimard Cameos and Intaglios: The Art of Engraved Stones
Book SynopsisThis book is designed for the exhibition of the collection of Mr. Guy Ladrière, which will be presented by the School of Jewelery Arts from 12 May to the 1 October 2022, under the commission of Mr. Philippe Malgouyres, chief curator of heritage in the art department of the Louvre. Widely illustrated and documented, this book will constitute a genuine introductory manual to the art of glyptics, thanks to its chrono-thematic approach to the history of engraved stones in the West. The author reveals a whole world in miniature, fascinating kings and emperors as much as collectors and art lovers. With materials with subtle engraved effects, cameos (relief engraving) and intaglios (intaglio engraving) have come down to us as jewels or relics, thus following all the themes of the History of Art: mythologies, symbols, portraits, allegories, etc.
£12.30
Editions Flammarion Runway Bird: A Rock 'n' Roll Style Guide
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£19.12
Editions Flammarion Impressionism and the Sea
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£24.00
Editions Flammarion Picasso Klee Matisse Giacometti
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£28.00
Editions Flammarion Pop Sculpture
£38.25
Jonglez Publishing Abandoned World
Book SynopsisThese outstanding photographic reports aim to draw attention to the often dramatic fate of a countryâs abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with one shared theme: the fall from grace
£23.96
Editions Skira Paris Miguel Chevalier
Book SynopsisLaurence Bertrand Dorléac, art historian, professor of art history. Jérôme Sans, director of contemporary art institutions (Palais de Tokyo, UCCA, LagoAlgo), art critic, and curator.
£32.00
Editions Skira Paris Muriel Pénicaud Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisMuriel Pénicaud is a French photographer, author, business executive and politician. She served as Minister of Labour in the French government from 2017 to 2020.
£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Contemporary Art from Qatar
£36.00
Editions Skira Paris Alain Sarfati Volume Bilingual edition
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£45.00
Editions Skira Paris Clémence Van Lunen
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£28.00
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Raymond Depardon Desert
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£45.00
Les Editions du Pacifique Rome sketchbook
Book SynopsisOne of Europe’s most beautiful cities is celebrated through the talents of artist Fabrice Moireau In Rome, the only guide is the curiosity of the places, the monuments, the sculptures, which Fabrice Moireau reveals to us in watercolors. Rome the ancient, Rome the imperial, Rome the baroque, but also Rome the present, are sublimated under the brush and the pen of the two authors, who invite us to discover the masterpieces of the "eternal city".
£24.00
Springer International Publishing AG ReEnvisioning the Material Past: How to Educate
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to help instructors effectively incorporate images and other aspects of material culture into their pedagogy in an engaging and relatable manner. The author draws on her personal experiences as an art historian of ancient art who instructs a wide variety of undergraduates. In addition to helping students to look and think critically, the book explores how the material culture of the past can be a potent tool in motivating student involvement with course content and sharpening skills vital for navigating contemporary culture.Table of Contents1 Introduction.2 Taking the Time to Look, Learning the Skills to See.3 The Past Is the New Present.4 New Approaches for Old Material.5 Letting Students Shape the Future.6 Conclusion.
£23.74
Birkhauser Modern Construction Case Studies: Emerging
Book SynopsisModern Construction Case Studies focuses on the interface between the design of facades, structures and environments of 12 building projects, all developed by Newtecnic. The Author compares facade technologies, particularly in the way they interface with structure and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing services) in complex projects, to provide insights into the design process for building envelopes. Each envelope technology is described with an emphasis on one of three aspects: geometry, construction and performance. The analysis links the 12 case studies by comparing their structural and environmental performance. The aim is achieved by analyzing typical bays which are representative of each project and which illustrate the implications of using different building envelope technologies.
£30.60
JRP Ringier Xavier Veilhan: 1999-2009
Book SynopsisThis monograph reviews Xavier Veilhan''s monumental sculptures of the past ten years, works that include a buggy distorted as if seen through a rippling pool and a Cubist-style stainless-steel shark. Drawing on references ranging from classical statuary to Futurism and Op art, Veilhan has been compared to artists such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.
£22.50
JRP Ringier David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air
Book SynopsisSources in the Air accompanies David Maljkovic's three-part exhibition of the same name at the Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and GAMeC, Bergamo. Including films, sculpture, collage and installations from the past ten years, Sources in the Air is the artist's most comprehensive survey to date.
£26.10
JRP Ringier Lionel Bovier: 10 Years in Art Publishing
Book SynopsisThis A-Z memoir about art publishing celebrates the ten-year anniversary of JRPRingier, created in 2004 by Swiss art curator Lionel Bovier and Ringier AG owner Michael Ringier. With 632 books and 1,800 authors published, 20,000 printing hours, 4,000 tons of books transported and one million sold, JRPRingier continues to work collaboratively with contemporary artists to produce carefully curated, high-quality publications. The book goes from A for Art Publisher and B for Books to Y for Yellowpress and Z for Zombie Books (projects that are in the state of non-death: they are not officially stopped, so they weigh on you, on your program''s list, being revived every now and then by someone who does not want them to die, without being able to make them exist) and is illustrated with images of signings and on-press scenes. This volume is published in the Hapax series.
£8.22
JRP Ringier New Zurich North / Neuer Norden Zürich
Book SynopsisPresenting contributions by artists such as Jean-Marie Appriou, Isabelle Cornaro, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli/Weiss, HR Giger, John Giorno, Nic Hess, Matt Mullican and Alex Sadkowsky, the festival and book New North Zurich explores the condition of 21st-century cities, and the way contemporary art could inhabit them.
£25.20
Lars Muller Publishers Ideas and Integrities: a Spontaneous
Book SynopsisIn "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other structures and creations that have changed the face of America and the world. And he sets forth his amazing and challenging ideas for the world of the future - ideas that would revolutionize everything from university education to bathroom design, ideas that, above all, demonstrate how we can and must make far more imaginative and efficient use of the resources now available to us to ensure a better standard of living for all men.
£20.00
Lars Muller Publishers Josef Muller-Brockmann: Poster Collection 25
Book SynopsisJosef Muller-Brockmann's graphics left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication from the 1950s onward. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. Poster campaigns for longtime clients such as the Tonhalle concert hall in Zurich or the Automobile Club of Switzerland follow strict functional criteria - and yet exhibit a variety of design solutions and exciting, dynamic compositions. This book presents selected posters by Muller-Brockmann and places them in the context of their own time while also examining the validity of his solutions from today's point of view.
£18.00
Lars Muller Publishers Climates: Architecture and the Planetary
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interface of resiliency, sustain- ability, and ecotechnology? Climates also contains a dossier of precedents for thinking about architecture and climate change drawn from a number of leading practitioners. New approaches to understanding climate in architecture make this book invaluable.This publication is a project by The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
£26.60
Lars Muller Publishers Karl Gerstner: Designing Programmes
Book SynopsisKarl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history of design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important works: in four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design method- ology and suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era. The book is especially topical and exciting in the context of current developments in computational design. With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture, and art, it inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work. Designing Programmes was first published in 1964; in 2007 Lars Müller Publishers launched a re-designed version. This year’s release of Designing Programmes corresponds with the original edition of the book, designed by Karl Gerstner.
£27.00
Lars Muller Publishers R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking
Book Synopsis'Pattern-Thinking' reassesses the work of Buckminster Fuller - unique hybrid between theoretician, architect, designer, educator, inventor, and author - as advancing contemporary models of design-research, practice, and pedagogy. Drawing extensively on Fuller’s archive, the book follows his unique process of translation between the physical and conceptual dimensions of design, to redefine our understanding of the relationships between geometry, structure, language, and intellectual property. Rather than being organised around a chronology of distinct narratives, 'Pattern-Thinking' follows these parallel explorations as the basis for Fuller’s artifacts and inventions. In the space between lines, models, words, and patents, it traces his ambition to measure physical experience in an ever-expanding pattern of relationships, while coordinating these into a conceptual network of words and concepts that shape the basis for his thinking. Advocating a multidisciplinary and political perspective, Fuller’s transversal logic expands the knowledge base of contemporary models of design, which seek to find broader participation and to address new publics.
£28.05
Birkhauser Verlag AG And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay
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Lars Muller Publishers Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and
Book SynopsisRoberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx’s own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in English, fills that void. Delivered on international speaking tours, they address topics such as Concepts in Landscape Composition, Gardens and Ecology, and The Problem of Garden Lighting. Their publi- cation sheds light on Burle Marx’s distinctive ethic and aesthetic of landscape, as “the real art of living.” The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist, and botanist, but as a land- scape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. The lectures are framed by photographs, by Leonardo Finotti, of a selection of Burle Marx’s realized projects.
£23.80
Lars Muller Publishers Le Corbusier: Album Punjab, 1951
Book SynopsisThis reprint of the notebook Album Punjab Simla. Chandigarh, Mars 1951 kept by Le Corbusier from his two-week visit in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal reflections as well as notes and schematic solutions elaborated during meetings. The Album Punjab constitutes a primary source for reconstructing the topics addressed by the small team of architects and governmental officials who in only a few days developed the outlines of the Chandigarh plan. The spiralbound notebook facsimile is accompanied by a paperback volume featuring previously unpublished photographs taken by Le Corbusier’s cousin Pierre Jeanneret during this early expedition. Jeanneret documented the landscape and people that the architects encountered upon their arrival – a scenario destined to totally change with the birth of the great city. A detailed commentary by architectural historian Maristella Casciato is also included. It reflects on the variety of topics assem- bled in the notebook and traces the story of these days in which the new capital city was planned.
£52.50
Park Books Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller
Book SynopsisToday, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid photography of the 1960s, which has been subject of many exhibitions and has lost nothing of its great appeal to the fashion world today. Much less attention has so far been given to Mollino's architecture, and a comprehensive critical study of his work in this field has been lacking. Yet his built work, although relatively small, constitutes a seminal contribution to modernism that is uniquely marked by a strong relationship with Surrealism. Based on years of research and drawing on rich archival material as well as on Mollino's own writings, this new book is the overdue tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture. It features an exemplary selection of his key designs, both built and unrealised, lavishly illustrated with images and reproductions of previously unpublished plans, drawings, and documents. Rounded out with scholarly essays by expert authors, this is a long-awaited addition to the library of architecture lovers, professionals, and scholars.
£64.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Paul Klee: The Sylvie and Jorge Helft Collection
Book SynopsisDrawing occupies a prominent place in the work of Paul Klee (1879-1940). Klee attached great importance to drawing and in particular to the line as the principle from which the realisation and visual generation of an idea emanates. This aspect is also a core interest of collectors Sylvie and Jorge Helft, who over almost five decades have assembled some 70 of Klee's pencil, pen and pastel drawings, as well as watercolours, etchings, and lithographs, which the artist has created between 1914 and 1940. The Helff’s Klee collection forms an extraordinarily coherent whole. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano from 4 September 2022 to 8 January 2023, features for the first time this unique selection from Klee’s oeuvre. A conversation with Sylvie and Jorge Helft by MASIS’s director Tobia Bezzola and essays by philosopher Francisco Jarauta, art and literary critic Juan Manuel Bonet, and art dealer and curator Achim Moeller supplement the full colour plates.
£37.80
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Alberto GiacomettiTime Passes Too Soon
Book SynopsisAlberto Giacometti (19011966), one of the most significant figures in 20th-century art, was throughout his life closely attached to his family, and in particular to his parents Giovanni and Annetta Giacometti, in their native Swiss village of Stampa. At least once a week he wrote to his parents to keep them up-to-date on everything important to him, maintaining this routine even when a telephone was installed at their house in the remote Val Bregaglia. Their entire correspondence comprises more than 1,000 letters.For the first time ever, excerpts from this body of documents are now published in this volume. They reveal fascinating insights into this close family relationship and the manifold exchanges about core issues of Alberto's life and work as an artist. The letters tell of his artistic education in Switzerland and the early years in Paris his studies at the art academy and encounters with the avant-garde, his joining with and later turning away from the Surrealist movemen
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Emons Verlag GmbH 111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss
Book Synopsis111 Churches in London That You Shouldn't Miss takes you through the doors of 111 rarely visited churches, but which, with the help of this informative guide are now on the map! With their spires, towers, columns and capitals, vaults and arches, carvings and paintings, London churches tell us a lot about its architecture and its history. And with their beautifully carved fonts, pulpits, carvings, mosaics and decorative objects, they show you centuries of skill and labour that went into making these buildings for which the main objectives were majesty, endurance and posterity. Following the little black crosses on her mini A to Z, Londoner Emma Rose Barber takes you to a ultra-modern church made in the Brutalist style, to a church once so dark, and now so light, a bombed church, now hollowed out, containing the most romantic garden in London, to churches where you can sip coffee in the aisles and nave...
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Stan Douglas: 2011 1848
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Walther & Franz König Azbuka Strikes Back an anticolonial ABCs
Book SynopsisSlavs and Tatars, founded 2006, lives and works in Berlin. Leah Feldman (b. 1983, Oakland) lives and works in Chicago. Amine Boulkroun (b. 1991, Algiers) lives and works in Paris.
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Taschen GmbH Schuman The Sartorialist Milano
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Taschen GmbH The Package Design Book 8
Book SynopsisExemplary packaging blends creativity and sustainability with great brand storytelling. The eighth edition of The Package Design Book showcases the winners of the 2023/24 Pentawards competition, the industry's biggest accolades. All groundbreaking designs, many explore new materials, greener no-trace' solutions, and smart and connected packaging.
£60.00
Taschen GmbH Seurat
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Hatje Cantz Jose Dávila
Book SynopsisIn a practice spanning nearly two decades, Jose Dávila has created an expressive body of work that explores the visual tropes and iconic symbols of art, architecture, and urban design. Initially trained as an architect and self-educated as a visual artist, Dávila creates sculptures, installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to 20th-century avant-garde art and architecture, referencing artists and architects from Luis Barragán to Josef Albers and Donald Judd. Humor and melancholy co-mingle in works that often explore the tension between industrial and organic materials and the forces of compression and balance. This monograph assesses the full scope of Dávila’s practice in all media for the first time, and includes texts attesting to the historical and social dimensions of Dávila’s art. Essays address the artist’s early pieces, his exercises on balance, sculpture, graphics and paintings, and his works in public space.
£46.40
Hatje Cantz Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organization of
Book SynopsisThe work of the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba is distinguished by her conceptual exploration of film. In this publication she devises a progressive vision for the cinema of the future. Barba translates questions of composition and plasticity into precisely staged arrangements that open up new ways of looking at both the material and the conceptual conditions of the medium of film. Starting with Barba’s artistic research, this volume deals with the concept of an anarchical organization of filmic spaces—a work principle that could shape a new way of thinking by destabilizing traditional cinematic structures. Through this, the author undertakes a journey to an imaginary political trope for today’s cinema.
£18.70
Hatje Cantz Easy Rider Road Book: A Tour through the Wild and
Book SynopsisThe Bicycle as a Utopia Cycling is not just a form of locomotion. Bike culture is in constant interaction with fashion, music, design, politics and urban planning. Cycling is a way of life and a form of protest. The Easy Rider Road Book shows the wild, subversive side of cycling and the powerful bond it can create between people. It aims to inspire utopian thinking and show where the bike can take us. The pioneers of this new bike culture can be found in subcultures across the globe. In New York and Berlin, bike punks are building both fantastic and sustainable vehicles out of scrap metal and old bike frames. Riding a bike is a form of emancipation: When thousands of teenagers ride through London during BikeStormz, they are expressing their hope for a better future. Similarly, the Chilangos Lowbike Club’s Sunday rides through Mexico City are a symbol against violence. The bicycle is a promise of freedom. This book presents the bicycle as a vehicle for communal action that has the potential to change life in the city and, ultimately, the city itself.
£32.00
