Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisIn this book you will rediscover the beloved 'Country Style,' which can be applied in so many different ways in a variety of interiors. From modern villas to old fermettes, country design finds its place everywhere. With an emphasis on natural elements, muted colours and an eccentric accent here and there, you'll learn from these homes how to get started in your own interiors, too. Photographer Brent Darby and author Wink Colville guide you through these more than 20 dream interiors.

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Book SynopsisGesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and thoroughly catalogued, Ter Borch has surprisingly never been the subject of a dedicated monograph, until now. For the first time, this book highlights Ter Borch's watercolours and calligraphy in their own right, as well as her work as an art teacher, an archivist, and an artist's model, and questions a historiography of women's art that frequently values oil painting over other media, and work for the market over 'amateur' production. Adam Eaker revisits Gesina ter Borch's role in the genesis of Dutch 'high-life' genre painting and its construction of gender and social class, comparing her art with that of her brother Gerard, and in so doing allows for a more nuanced understanding of the ideologies and achievements of Dutch genre pai

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Book SynopsisAn exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their Oscar wins and tell never-before-told tales of Hollywood''s biggest night, in a collection of original interviews with Turner Classic Movies host and entertainment media journalist Dave Karger. For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind the scenes of Hollywood?s most storied awards show through new and exclusive interviews with dozens of A-list actors, filmmakers, and craftspeople spanning sixty years of the Oscars. Here these artists reflect on their winning work and recount all the details of how they got ready, how they felt when they heard their name and got up on stage to accept their award, what they wore, how the entire experience impacted their life, and more. Some interviews bring to light fun stories like why Hilary Swank decided to celebrate her Academy Award at the Astro Burger in West Hollywood, or insight into the work as Elton John explains why he was convinced he won his Best Original Song award for the wrong tune. Other interviews illuminate why for some honorees, such as Julia Roberts, John Legend, and Octavia Spencer, the day remains a life highlight to be treasured, while for Marlee Matlin, Mira Sorvino, and Barry Jenkins, complex emotions cloud what most think would be a purely celebratory moment. Filled with more than 150 photos of red-carpet moments, emotional acceptances, and after-party play, 50 Oscar Nights is both a stunning record of cinema glamour and a must-read for any movie lover. Full list of interviewees: Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Jennifer Hudson, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Barry Jenkins, Halle Berry, J. K. Simmons, Julia Roberts, John Legend, Rita Moreno, Martin Scorsese, Marlee Matlin, Dustin Hoffman, Hannah Beachler, Cameron Crowe, Mira Sorvino, Kevin O?Connell, Sally Field, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Eddie Redmayne, Lee Grant, Louis Gossett Jr., Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Jessica Yu, Michael Douglas, Catherine Martin, Francis Ford Coppola, Allison Janney, Mel Brooks, Emma Thompson, Peter Jackson, Marcia Gay Harden, Mark Bridges, Sofia Coppola, Joel Grey, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, Olivia Colman, Rob Epstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan Menken, Melissa Etheridge, Sissy Spacek, Keith Carradine, Estelle Parsons, Geoffrey Fletcher, Octavia Spencer, Aaron Sorkin, Meryl Streep

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Book SynopsisAmong the most, probably the most, unique, exciting, ambitious, innovative and eye-catching exhibitions here this summer is Marc Hom: Re-Framed, Allotsego.comMarc Hom''s inaugural museum exhibition, RE-FRAMED, debuts at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, opening on May 24, 2024. Serving as both a retrospective featuring many of his iconic photographic works and a collection spanning from the early 1990s to the present, it aims to offer a new viewing experience. Departing from traditional gallery conventions of framed pictures on walls, the exhibit prioritises an immersive viewing experience both indoors and outdoors. The indoor segment offers a controlled, intimate setting with smaller prints, while outside, photographs are showcased in massive 20 rotating frames measuring 3.66 x 2.4 metres, featuring black and white prints, subject to the elements including wind, sun, shade, and rain. Titled RE

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Book SynopsisAn overview of current trends in planning zoos and aquariums.

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Book SynopsisThe first book from SawyerBerson illustrates the award-winning firm’s quintessential pairings of modernism and classicism in seaside houses, metropolitan residences, and spectacular garden retreats.Treating architecture, landscape, and interior design as complementary endeavors, Brian Sawyer and John Berson have been ahead of their time and influential in the world of design since the founding of their eponymous partnership in 1999. SawyerBerson’s prodigious use of traditional and modern vocabularies has gained the firm widespread recognition and many notable clients. Meticulous attention to detail and versatility combine to create a wide variety of projects.In the Hamptons, a modernist house of stone and glass lets in the sun and sea views while secluded by the dunes and drifts of native grasses. Another residence is built according to the pinwheel floor plans of early twentieth-century houses by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright to accommodatTrade Review"When Brian Sawyer and John Berson founded their eponymous New York firm in 1999, the synergies between architecture, landscape, and interiors were immediately clear. This book reflects that harmonious spirit through projects like a grand East End estate that still embraces the area’s simple shingle vernacular, a midcentury-modern home in Bridgehampton sporting a cantilevered roof terrace, and a Manhattan town house brightened by a brick and ivy garden." —ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST"The first book from Sawyer | Berson illustrates the award-winning firm’s quintessential pairings of modernism and classicism in seaside houses, metropolitan residences, and spectacular garden retreats." —MOFFLY MEDIA""To be modern is not a fashion, but a state," Le Corbusier once said. "It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and which will be." Few contemporary design firms are as up to the task as Sawyer | Berson, the practice began in 1999 by Brian Sawyer and John Berson. They met in the office of the famed Robert A.M. Stern and developed an approach that treated architecture, landscape design and interior design as equals in the pursuit of an aesthetic beau idéal. This, their first book, is required reading for anyone wishing to understand that which will be." —TOWN AND COUNTRY

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Book SynopsisIs it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making opportunities for themselves across the creative disciplines - ways you can learn from too.Don't Get a Job?... Make a Job celebrates the various strategies that the next generation of creatives are taking to gain exposure and define their own success. This revised edition includes inspirational advice and a new chapter on making a difference, features new stories from 13 innovative designer-entrepreneurs, and checks in with many of the original creatives from the first edition.

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Book SynopsisMake art with no-mess, quick-drying shimmer sticks!Finally, there's a way to have your very own paint studio with absolutelyno mess involved! Iridescent paint sticks are the ultimatekid-friendly art media. They create bright, vibrant streaks ofpaint. And best of all? They dry instantly!

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Book SynopsisJapanese artists celebrate the phenomenon that is the Marvel Universe!Experience a fresh take on the Marvel Universe with this collection of stunning illustrations from over twenty exceptional Japanese artists, including Yasuhiro Nightow, Akira Himekawa, Peach Momoko, Yusuke Murata, and Yoshitaka Amano. Marvel Comics: A Manga Tribute explores Marvel’s rich and enduring legacy as a pop-culture phenomenon by paying homage to its most iconic characters and beloved stories. The book features a range of unique artwork, collected for the first time, celebrating characters from across the multiverse. A must-have for fans of Marvel Comics and Japanese art alike!

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Book SynopsisAn awe-inspiring collection of Bryan Nash Gill's large-scale relief prints from cross sections of previously felled trees. Now in an updated edition with a new introduction by Bill McKibben.If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash Gill (1961–2013) showed us why. Creating prints from cross sections of trees, Gill revealed the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings, patterns not only of great beauty but also a year-by-year record of the life and times of the fallen or damaged logs. The artist rescued the wood from the property surrounding his studio and neighboring land, extracted and prepared blocks of various species—including ash, maple, oak, spruce, and willow—and then printed them by carefully following and pressing the contours of the rings until the intricate designs transferred from tree to paper. These exquisitely detailed prints are collected and published in t

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Book SynopsisIssam Kourbaj was born and grew up in Syria before settling in Cambridge in 1990. Following the uprising in Syria in 2011, Kourbaj has been a constant creative witness to the continuing conflict in his home country, his art increasingly addressing the endemic pain and suffering that accompanies displacement and forced migration everywhere. Published to accompany two substantial solo exhibitions at Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge and The Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, Issam Kourbaj explores the life and work of an artist characterised by collaboration and endless curiosity. Kourbaj's art is expressive and alive, suggesting even in the darkest hours the potential for change and renewal.How can we grasp the remarkable artistic breadth of Issam Kourbaj? Here is an art so full of invention and purpose that its images and ideas reverberate well beyond the walls of any gallery. Kourbaj's achievement is to make us look, pause and imagi

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realised over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden's historic farm buildings. Bergquist's great attention to detail and careful choice of materials characterise these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding landscape and nature, which is enhanced as an experience by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside.The houses are documented with photographs as well as plans and sections. In his supplementary essay, Bergquist writes about the special position of working as an architect on the periphery of Europe. He draws a picture of Swedish architecture that is marked by what he calls fruitful misunderstandings of current movements, and one in which the poverty of the rural population has been a major factor in the evolution of the design and construction of dwellings.

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Book SynopsisHave any conversation with Donna Trope and it will somehow wind its way back to sex. It lies at the heart of everything she does, every image she creates. If the legendary beauty photographer isn't aroused on set, then she might as well not be on set at all. One of my earliest beauty memories is watching my young stepmother getting ready for my father to come home, she says. Her hair and makeup were akin to that of a fashion shoot. They had a decidedly sexual aura. Her getting ready was almost ritualistic and I watched this, maybe as a voyeur, and was fascinated enough to remember it all my life. Dazed BeautyDonna was born in Los Angeles and bred in London. Being self-taught, she drew from her own experiences and developed a look and a style. Donna Trope is an award winning, world-renowned photographer specialising in beauty images Her sexy, conceptual, ground breaking beauty shots went against the grain of what was considered commercially beautiful and are now the much imit

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Book Synopsis"These are just a few highlights amongst the 43 projects featured in Architects at Home, but each is certain to reveal both the pleasures and challenges of designing a home for oneself." — Canadian Interiors This stunning revised and updated edition takes you on a thrilling tour through the fascinating, eclectic and stylish abodes of some of the world’s best-known architects. Not only do these pages offer a rare glimpse into each architect’s personal, private environment, but each uniquely designed project provides insight into how each architect marries trends with their own personal philosophy, and how they inject interior design flair into their own contemporary domain. Combining rich photography and spectacular imagery with an incisive summary by a leading architecture specialist, Architects at Home provides a rich source for those keen to delve into the design aesthetics, concepts and innovations of prominent architects from around the globe.Trade Review"When architects design their own family getaways; two upstate homes - one modern, one cozy." - Curbed Magazine"It offers an enticing look through the keyholes of remarkable properties designed by the architects that live in them." - Daily Mail"These are just a few highlights amongst the 43 projects featured in Architects at Home, but each is certain to reveal both the pleasures and challenges of designing a home for oneself." - Canadian InteriorsTable of ContentsIntroduction Next Level Living Perfect Balance Over and Across Integrated with Site A Natural Affinity Razzle Dazzle Modern Resilience Hidden Among the Woods Ramble On Forest Lookout Building Family Connections Courting in Style Light and Bright Island Adventures Corten with Character Crystalline Form Bird's-Eye Views Countryside Charm Maker's Mark Growing Together Bound in a Grid For the Love of Art Changing the Mood Stacking Up Wooloowin Wonder Nestled in the Landscape Planting New Roots Romance in the Dunes Complete Contrast Box of Tricks Home Made Rustic Modernist Concrete Ambience Transparent Intentions Salvaged for the Future Solar Canopy Reflecting the Environment Abstracted Forms Connecting Environments Desert Reflections Clearly Connected Slipping into Place Harnessing the Views Credits

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Book SynopsisWe live in an increasingly urbanised world, but there are still many magnificent stretches of wilderness unaltered by humankind. From the most remote mountains and valleys in Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina, from Europe’s primeval forest on the Polish-Belarusian border to Norway’s fjords, and from the Namib Desert to Kamchatka in far-eastern Russia to canyons in Kurdistan and rainforests in Cambodia, The Wild celebrates the beauty of uncultivated landscapes all around the globe. Arranged by continent, the book roams across landscapes and climates, from Antarctica’s dry valleys to African burning deserts, from European marshlands to Arabian rugged peaks and on to Tanzania’s craters, Indonesia’s volcanoes and New Zealand’s bubbling mud pools. Each entry is supported with fascinating captions explaining the geology, geography, flora and fauna. In doing so, the book reveals some of the world’s most naturally bizarre places. Illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs, The Wild leads the reader to the planet’s least cultivated places, from jungles to tundras. Take a step into the wild.Table of ContentsIntroduction EUROPE Near Ilimanaq, Avannaata, Greenland Øfjord, Scoresbysund, Greenland Knoydart Peninsula, Highland, Scotland Highland Cattle, Lochaber, Scotland Connemara National Park, Galway, Ireland Northern Lights, Lofoten Islands, Norway Vestvågøya, Lofoten Islands, Norway Waggonwaybreen, Spitsbergen, Norway Arctic Ocean, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway Spitsbergen, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland, Finland Oulanka National Park, Northern Ostrobothnia-Lapland, Finland Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland, Finland Soomaa National Park, Viljandi, Estonia Białowieza Forest, Belarus–Poland Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, Hesse, Germany Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France Doñana National Park, Andalucia, Spain Northern Velebit National Park, Lika- Senj, Croatia Durmitor National Park, Zabljak, Montenegro Drakolimni of Tymfi, Vikos–Aoös National Park, Greece Papingo Rock Pools, Vikos–Aoös National Park, Greece Horses, Danube Delta, Tulcea, Romania ASIA Koryasky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia Putorana Plateau, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Upper Shavlinsky Lake, Chuya Belki, Altai, Russia Ergaki, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Lake Baikal, Irkutsk–Buryatia, Russia Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, Russia Sakha, Russia Kamchatka Brown Bear, Kamchatka, Russia Lut Desert, Iran Karakum Desert Darvaza Gas Crater, Ahal, Turkmenistan Yamzho Yumco Lake, Tibet, China View from the Friendship Highway, Tibet, China Kham, Tibet, China Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China Baruun Büs, Mongolia Sükhbaatar, Mongolia Bayanzag, Gobi Desert, Ömnögovi, Mongolia Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Uygur, China Xinjiang Uygur, China Tonlé Sap, Cambodia Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand Ijen, East Java, Indonesia Kawah Ijen, East Java, Indonesia Pulau Mawar, Johor, Malaysia Danum Valley, Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia Bornean Orangutan, Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia Scout Park, West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands AFRICA Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar Lakes of Ounianga, Ennedi, Chad Simien Mountains, Amhara, Ethiopia Hypersaline Pond, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Great Rift Valley, Kiambu, Kenya Nabiyotum Crater, Lake Turkana, Kenya Lake Bogoria, Baringo, Kenya Ugandan Red Colobus, Kibale National Park, Western Region, Uganda Semuliki National Park, Western Region, Uganda Hwange National Park, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe Angolan Giraffe, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Lilac-Breasted Roller, Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Blue Wildebeest, Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Hippos, Serengeti National Park, Arusha, Tanzania Langevin River, Réunion National Park, Réunion Crowned Lemur, Montagne d’Ambre National Park, Madagascar Cascade Sacrée, Montagne d’Ambre National Park Andringitra National Park, Haute Matsiatra, Madagascar Namib Desert, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia Deadvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia Sehlabathebe National Park, Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho Mokala National Park, Northern Cape, South Africa Lango Bai, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of the Congo Cão Grande, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe Lopé National Park, Ogooué-Ivindo, Gabon Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, St Louis, Senegal Zakouma National Park, Guéra–Salamat, Chad Rhirhaia Valley, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco Canyon des Doigts du Singe, Dadès Valley, High Atlas, Morocco Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, Tamanrasset, Algeria OCEANIA & ANTARCTICA Mt Sonder (Rwetyepme), Northern Territory, Australia Ghost Gum, Northern Territory, Australia Mt Donna Buang, Victoria, Australia Cathedral Termite Mounds, Northern Territory, Australia Echidna Chasm, Purnululu National Park, Western Australia Pilbara, Western Australia Abel Tasman National Park, South Island, New Zealand Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand Champagne Pool, Waiotapu, North Island, New Zealand Tongariro Alpine Crossing, North Island, New Zealand Adelaide Island, Antarctica Adelie Penguin, Brown Bluff, Antarctica Wright Valley, Antarctica Antarctic Ice Sheet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica Wandering Albatrosses, South Georgia Vanderford Glacier, Wilkes Land, Antarctica Mt Waialeale, Kaua‘i, Hawaii Rock Islands, Palau Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands Sprouting Coconuts, Palmerston Atoll THE AMERICAS Hay River, Willmore Wilderness Park, Alberta, Canada Arctic Poppies, King William Island, Nunavut, Canada Lac La Ronge Provincial Park, Saskatchewan, Canada Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada Hidden Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada Lancaster Sound and Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada Dall’s Sheep, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, USA Yukon River, Alaska, USA Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, USA Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah, USA Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA El Nicho Waterfalls, Cienfuegos, Cuba Elqui Valley, Coquimbo, Chile Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia, Brazil Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina Puna de Atacama, Salta, Argentina

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Book SynopsisAs well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments from the Phoebus Foundation's world-famous collection. The objects tell of the glory days of the history of cartography, but also of darker matters, from the struggle against flooding and the Eighty Years' War to colonial expansion and the Belgian struggle for independence. Well-known mapmakers such as Gerard Mercator, Abraham Ortelius and Joan Blaeu are featured in addition to numerous anonymous surveyors and cartographers.Groundbreakers invites us to discover and question the history of cartography in the Netherlands, in order to explore and expand the horizons of our own world.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better--and what they have to do with one another. The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related to each other. The guiding question of Milner''s life was of how people come to feel alive in, and feel creatively responsive to, their own lives. In pursuit of this, Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, literature, art, philosophy, mysticism, and psychology. She became one of the twentieth century''s most extraordinary thinkers about creativity. David Russell shows that there is no writer quite like Milner and the rewards of reading her are immense. Key to all her writing is her search for creative practices of attention--of how we pay attention in the life we have. She helped to develop a kind of psychoanalysis in Britain that focussed on the ways people relate to their own lives and the lives of others. Milner was literary and artistic; she took herself as her subject. Her writing performs ways of responding associatively to the words and images she encountered. In the process, she found she was a quite different person than she had first thought. In the 1930s Milner invented a form for writing about reading: an original kind of diary book, which is structured by the experience of going back to, and rereading, past diaries. In her interplay of past and present selves, she finds new ways of looking at, and experiencing, the world.

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Book SynopsisExploring the life, imagery and lasting appeal of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), this landmark book features a core of important historic paintings representing the saint by Giotto, Sassetta, Caravaggio, Zurbarán and El Greco. From his native Umbria, Saint Francis’s image spread rapidly to become a global phenomenon and a continuous source of artistic fascination. His commitment to the poor, powerful appeals for peace, openness to dialogue with other religions and embryonic environmentalism radically impacted the Church and society of his time, and still hold great interest today. Spanning seven centuries and ranging from the earliest, relic-like objects to contemporary art in a variety of media, including works by Antony Gormley, Giuseppe Penone and a new commission from Richard Long, Saint Francis of Assisi reflects on the lasting legacy of Saint Francis – an inherently modern figure who retains a universal appeal. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London, 6 May–30 July 2023

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History"

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Book SynopsisA multifaceted, critical interpretation of celebrated American artist Jack Whitten's art and thinking over six decades, informed by the artist's extensive writings and personal conversations with the author. This comprehensive monograph, authored by art historian Richard Shiff, offers a multifaceted and critical interpretation of Jack Whitten's art-making and philosophy of life. Informed both by Whitten's extensive writings and his personal conversations with the author, Cosmic Soul offers a close reading of the artist's outlook. Vividly illustrated and ranging freely through the course of the artist's remarkable six-decade career, Shiff's text illuminates the distinctive character of Whitten's thought and the art it generated.

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Book Synopsis Palace Costume is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Palace Costume & Prop Co., an exclusive Los Angeles film-industry haven of dresses, gowns, garments, accessories, props, and jewelry featured in countless movies for more than fifty years.Envisioned and curated by owner Melody Barnett, Palace Costume is a 30,000-square-foot treasure trove of over half a million pieces and a beloved and legendary collection exclusively for costumers, stylists, and designers. Barnett's journey in retro clothing is movie-worthy itself. Her first boutique in Los Angeles in the early 1970s attracted the likes of Diana Ross and Joni Mitchell and many other legends from the era. This inspired her to transition the business into a to-the-trade-only rental service enabling her to hold onto and care for these vintage gems. Since then, hundreds of classic films have featured clothing from Palace over the years, including Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, and T

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Book SynopsisThe Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary historiography, and case studies from textile production to map-making and historical linguistics. Contributors include specialists of Mongol history and historiography as well as Islamic, East Asian, and European art.Trade ReviewThe various contributions are of high scholarly standard, yet accessible to nonspecialists as well, and the combination of historical and art historical approaches, with a large role for material culture, is a valuable one. -- Josephine van den Bent * Asian Review of World Histories *

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Book SynopsisA photograph lives in multiple eras at once: the time of its making, the time of its unveiling, the time of its subsequent rediscovery. —Rebecca Bengal In Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous essays and interviews, she contemplates photography’s narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin’s New York demimonde to Justine Kurland’s pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal brings us closer to pioneering artists and the personal and political stories surrounding their images. She travels with Alec Soth in Minneapolis, searching for the houses where Prince once lived, and revisits Chauncey Hare’s 1979 protest against the Museum of Modern Art. She speaks with Dawoud Bey about his evocative portraits and explores Diana Markosian’s cinematic take on her family’s immigration to the US. Throughout Strange Hours, Bengal’s prose is attuned to the alchemy of experience, chance, and vision that has always pushed photography’s potential for unforgettable storytelling.Trade Review"Strange Hours serves a crash course in the enormity and importance of photography. It plunges quickly beneath the surface to reveal just how deep the image can go."—Kat Herriman, Cultured Magazine

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Book SynopsisFrom the time of the pharaohs to world-famous internet sensations, cats have inspired artists to strive to capture their lithe movements and cryptic personalities for as long as they’ve been our furry companions. This joyous collection celebrates cats in art, spanning eras, styles and continents, from the brushes of masters such as Manet, Gauguin, Klee, Hokusai, Renoir and more.

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Book SynopsisThey've been referred to as the quintessential silent sales force, but they are so much more than fancy clothes hangers. Mannequins breathe life, emotion, and animation into retail environments across the world. They are works of art that tap into the emotions and aspirations of all who engage with them. Profiles of the Mannequin tracks the history and evolution of these intriguing figures from the headless models of 1900 right up to today's virtual mannequins. Exploring shifts in representation of gender, race and body type, this study chronicles the connection between mannequins and movements in art, the humanities, current affairs, and fashion.Beautifully illustrated and engagingly told, fascinating in-depth interviews with creative professionals recount their experiences, philosophies, and stories of the mannequin and its impact on our culture as both a utilitarian object and as an artistic statement.Interviewees include: -Carol Barnhart, fo

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Book SynopsisBorn in 1943 in London, Bill Jacklin RA studied and worked in graphic design before a move to study painting at the Royal College of Art. Initially abstract, his work moved towards figuration in the mid-1970s, at which point he also became preoccupied with the effects of light and movement, twin strands that have characterised his work ever since. Since his move to New York in 1985, he has concentrated on painting portraits of the city in all its guises, from large-scale compositions of crowds in flux to Seurat-like etchings depicting more intimate urban moments.Jacklin enjoys making monotypes, whose fusion of printmaking and painting techniques is particularly well suited to his subject-matter. Painted on a polished, non-absorbent surface, these images are unique, and no reusable element, such as an etching plate, woodblock or stencil, is employed in their creation. This handsome new book reproduces a wide range of Jacklin's exuberant monotypes and contains an informative ac

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Book SynopsisIn its early decades, the Ethiopian capital, founded in 1886, witnessed a very specific form of architecture. At the beginning of the East African country’s first urbanisation process, a mixture of vernacular knowledge and a new cosmopolitan mindset led to an architectural type that local professionals refer to as the ‘Addis Ababa Style’: Pavilion-like buildings of different sizes, made of stone, earth, and wood, characterised by expressive pinched roofs, generous verandas with curtain walls, and a high degree of detailing. Today, those graceful, appropriate, and nature-based buildings are under threat of being swallowed up due to shortsighted economic interests. In cooperation with the Institute for Architecture in Addis Ababa (EiABC), architects of Berlin’s Technical University studied this typology with regard to its embeddedness in local resources, climatic conditions, and craftsmanship. As such, they employed the ‘Addis Ababa House’ as a case study to discuss the possibility of a non-industrial building type that reflects the desire for a cosmopolitan urban life.

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Book SynopsisSo, you are considering an architecture apprenticeship? As a new route into the profession, you likely have lots of questions. Amongst them might be What is an architecture apprenticeship and is it right for me? How do I apply and prepare for an apprenticeship? How can I make the most of my apprenticeship? How can the apprenticeship support my future career ambitions? This handbook answers these questions and demystifies the Level 7 apprenticeship, providing structured guidance and advice for career progress to apprentices, as well as those supporting them on their journey.Using case studies from recent graduates and current apprentices who have excelled through this route, it features information from employers and academics involved in architecture apprenticeships in the UK.Whilst not for everyone, those choosing to pursue this route are often considered by industry to be amongst the most sought-after of their generation.Keep the book close and map your journey into the profession.

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Book SynopsisAimed at adults, this is the first coloring book to bring together all the original Major and Minor Arcana alongside insights intothe iconic imagery from a Tarot expert.

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Book SynopsisA series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance?and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.In the 1950s, the figure of the arrow had a strange kind of ubiquity in architectural drawings, publications, and advertisements, symbolizing everything from the circulation of cold and warm air in a kitchen fridge to the flow of traffic in assorted New Towns. Twenty-five years earlier there were barely any arrows within architectural publications, and 15 years later they had all but disappeared. In On Arrows, Laurent Stalder looks back at the near past to trace the idea of performance in architecture by following this pervasive yet relatively unnoticed figure within the history of British architecture.During its short, intense period of use, the arrow pointed beyond any one singular author, typology, or scale, to the operative dimension of architecture and its environments, working both as an appropriate representational technique and a concrete tool for design. Stalder uses the arrow to move through the different dimensions of performance, mapping out the changing set of constellations that made up postwar British architecture and its environments: the constructive aspects, structural properties, infrastructural innovations, spatial challenges as well as their aesthetic and practical consequences. It is the arrow, he writes, that brings together debates from within different disciplines?from building physics, to sociology, structural design, and historiography, inscribed as they are in the materials, spaces, and buildings that are all too often considered in isolation from one another.

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Book SynopsisGerman-english edition The question of identity has always preoccupied artists. Louisa Clement is no different, her central theme is the human being and the human in the digital. In her art, she starts out from herself, but ventures much further, asking how identity will be shaped in the future and examining forms of transformation. In the series of works Repräsentantinnen (Representatives), she creates AI-equipped, adaptive images of herself, with which visitors can converse. In photographic works, the master pupil of Andreas Gursky continues this examination of the body and its possible optimisations and deals with military legacies under the aspect of transformation. This publication is appearing for an exhibition at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum - both artists are united in their search for self-expression, as Paula Modersohn-Becker's Self-portrait on 6th wedding anniversary from 1906 demonstrates in a succinct manner. Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_human_error_louisa_clement?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ Louisa Clement (born 1987 in Bonn) completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2015 as a master pupil of Andreas Gursky. She has already exhibited in various institutions and museums, including e.g.: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2022); Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2019); Sprengel Museum Hanover (2019) One of today’s most popular young artists Current social issues such as AI, questions about body and self-image, and possibilities of digital storage Exhibition, 2 September 2023 to 21 January 2024, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide that every manga illustrator needs to have with scores of full-colour examples from dozens of professional illustrators!

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