Art & Photography Books
Massey University Press Artists in Antarctica
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£52.69
Shelter Press Happy Purim
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£36.00
RVB MINUTE YOU HAVE A MINUTE
Book SynopsisFamed for restoring historic properties, Belmond luxury?hotel group is now collaborating with world-leading contemporary photographers to create bodies of work responding to their destinations, carefully pairing each artist with the personality of the chosen hotel. Coco Capitan photographed the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in spring 2023 and winter 2024. Coco Capitán doesn't like planes. Instead, she loves nothing more than classical forms of transportation sailboats, yachts, vintage cars and, of course, the archetypal train journey. So when Capitán was invited to photograph the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express with its original 1920s carriages and historic routes throughout Europe she couldn't say no. While on board the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Capitán took the most instinctive approach, that of a curious traveller taking a trip with friends. Within the series, the relationship Capitán has built with the staff is interchangeable with the existing bond with her friends who joi
£28.80
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite Sand is Water You Can walk On
Book SynopsisThe artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings ofthe same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney, and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series ofworks, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject. The engagement of (art) historical themes from an anti-subjective, utopian -speculative perspective informs Schilling's work. The three authors touch on themes from Schilling's paintings and write texts that diverge inform and content. With her story, Eva Hegge submerges us in a dreamy, nerdy narrative. Miriam Stoney delvesinto mathematical, lyrical deconstruction and Sophia Eisenhut swirls the most diverse strands into a medievalpop melange. The three texts stand alongside the paintings on an equal footingand forge new connections not only with the paintings but also with each other. Intertextual references to feminist literature, medieval poetry and political as well as geometric theory emerge. While the artistic exchange between the authors and Schilling is obvious, the publication deliberately leavesunclear whether the texts refer to the paintings or vice versa. If you follow the pictures, the three voices speakto you again and again; if you follow the texts, your gaze is drawn back to the pictures. The open principle ofthe publication moves incessantly between the different subject areas and creates a lyrical form that opens upmore gaps than it closes.
£22.80
Ediciones Remotas La Fotografia en Gran Canaria 1840 1940
Book SynopsisAfter examining more than 50,000 photographs of Gran Canaria, kept in local, national and international archives and collections, historian Gabriel Betancor Quintana, embarked upon an exhaustive study of the photographers behind the lenses, their techniques and the socio-economic circumstances in which the images were taken. This book brings together a selection of more than 200 photographs of the island, many of which have never been published before. These images narrate 100 years of change in the island's landscapes, culture, economy and politics. Accompanying us on this journey is an-depth historical guide that helps us to fully understand the meaning and context of the photographs. Above all, this book opens a window into the past, inviting us to lean through and witness the evolving face of Gran Canaria between 1840 and 1940. Beginning of the history of photography on La Palma, which documents the history of the island between 1860 and 1960.
£16.01
Museum Tusculanum Press Danish Studio Ceramics 1950 - 2010
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£57.79
Mousse Publishing Nil Yalter Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif
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£31.50
Kult Books Noema
Book SynopsisIn 1961, in the small Spanish village of San Sebastian de Garabandal, four young girls had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. They entered a state of ecstasy in which they became completely unaware of their surroundings and sensory perceptions. Reportedly, witnesses would pinch the girls, pierce their skin with needles, lift them up and drop them onto rough rocks, and yet they remained entranced. The light and presence of the Virgin is all they claim to have experienced. Twenty years later, in the town of Medjugorje, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, six children also had simultaneous visions of the Virgin, with similar ecstatic qualities. In his debut book Noema Michael Swann investigates the aura of place and religious experience by searching for signs of the Virgin Mary's presence in these two locations. Alongside original photographs made at both sites, Noema also includes images that have been appropriated from video footage of the visionaries taken during their apparitions. These emphasi
£27.00
APE (Art Paper Editions) Richard Kern Polaroids
Book SynopsisFor more than three decades Richard Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter, photographer and audience his subject. With his dry, matter of fact approach, he underlines the absurdity of truth and objectivity in photography while playing with our reliance upon taxonomies around sexual representation. This publications contains more than 200 polaroids taken during his several projects over the past 35 years. Design and editing: Jurgen Maelfeyt
£999.99
Kapon Editions National Archaeological Museum, Athens (English
Book SynopsisThis brief guide to the collections of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens provides general information about all the collections, with an emphasis on the way they are presented in the Museum galleries. It illustrates representative works from each collection, demonstrating the artistic quality and value of the exhibits. The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art. Large format paperback, lavishly illustrated in colour throughoutTable of ContentsIntroduction - Nikolaos Kaltsas Prehistoric Collection - Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Neolithic Culture Cycladic Culture Akrotiri, Thera Mycenaean Civilization Early and Middle Bronze Age Vase Collection - Elizabeth Stasinopoulou Gold Jewellery - Elizabeth Stasinopoulou Terracotta Figurines - Christina Avronidaki and Evangelos Vivliodetis
£999.99
Mr & Mrs Z The Black White Project
Book SynopsisThe black & white house has a special place in the colonial history of Singapore. It was very much the quintessential home of the expatriate Englishman. As an amalgamation of English, Indian and Malay design features, these houses have an architectural uniqueness that has seen them become conservation properties in Singapore. However, in post-colonial Singapore, these properties are now increasingly rare and the gardens and landscapes on which they sit are the target of land redevelopment schemes.Peter's photographs of black & white houses, within the landscapes on which they rest offer a view of the black & white house has never been captured before. These images are unique and evoke a memory of a bygone era as well as a call for the conservation of the landscapes on which the black & white house sits.
£32.00
Oxbow Books Limited Gizeh and Rifeh
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£33.20
Oxbow Books Limited The Tomb of the Vizier Rewer at Saqqara
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£23.74
Artbook D.A.P. WenYou Cai Minnan Exit
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£999.99
Hanuman Editions The Frontier Index
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£11.39
MIT Press Ltd Sound Art
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£47.20
Universe Publishing The Louvre Art Deck
Book SynopsisThe Louvre is among only a handful of world museums with such tremendous name recognition and a long list of readily identifiable art, which translates into being salable at ANY museum shop and great gift appeal.
£15.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design Noir
Book SynopsisThe first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby's work. Consisting of three elements - a manifesto' on the possibilities of designing with and for the secret life' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects Design Noir offers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms. By detailing the logic and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique and engagement with thingsTrade ReviewLike a trap door to a room we didn’t know existed, Design Noir opened up a space for a critical design practice that was wholly unexplored in its time. Today, that space seems not only obvious and essential, but inevitable. The impact of Design Noir has been inestimable. And the aftershocks from this unassuming but masterful book are still reverberating decades later. * Jamer Hunt, Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School, USA and Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons, USA *Only now that speculation through design has come into its own can we see the full legacy of this mischievous and engaging book. Its welcome reappearance shows it remains both a crucial study in material critique and a lesson in how to document the thoughts of your participants. * Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and Professor of Interaction Design, Social Change and Sustainability at Malmo University, Sweden *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the second edition 1. Manifesto 2. Placebo 3. Conversations Index
£27.00
Edition Axel Menges Opus 87: Egon Eiermann, Haus Eiermann, Baden-
Book SynopsisEven though he had made a name for himself in the 1930s with his Berlin single-family homes, Eiermann later on found it difficult to accept commissions for this building type when, during the period of the 'economic miracle', he was approached by numerous people interested to get a design by him. Only the Hardenberg House in Baden-Baden satisfied him, but above all his own house, which he also built in Baden-Baden in 195962. This house in particular, built after his success with the German Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair and at the same time as the Berlin Gedächtniskirche and the German Embassy in Washington, was to become one of the main works of his post-war creative output. As a builder in his own right, he was able here to uncompromisingly realise his ideal image of living for himself and his family in architecture. Eiermann himself tried to explain the house, which only crystallised in a longer planning genesis, primarily from the functional side: main house and annexe, the latter for garage, studio and guest apartment, the elongated main house in bulkhead construction under a flat sloping roof. In fact, the house is convincing in its sophisticated functionality. But it does not stop there. The complex group of buildings on a steep hillside site with its stagelike terraces, the staged interplay of views from the inside to the outside and, at night, also from the outside to the inside, is an extremely artificial structure even from its basic disposition. The Eiermanntypical façade, with its exterior walkway and white linkage as well as the corrugated Eternit roof provide a ponderous contrast. Together with echoes of traditional Japanese houses and gardens, but above all with the adoption of motifs from sailing- ship building give this house an unmistakable character. Since 2020, the house has new owners, on whose behalf the Stuttgart architects 'no where' (Henning Volpp and Karl Amann) have undertaken an extremely careful renovation. Eiermann's estate, which is kept at saai, the Archive for Architecture and Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), provided the historical drawings and photographs for this volume. The photographs were primarily taken by Horstheinz Neuendorff, an architectural photographer who was on friendly terms with the architect. Since the early sixties, Neuendorff had been commissioned by Eiermann to capture his new buildings in black-and-white photographs of a high artistic standard. Color photographs of the current condition were newly made by Olaf Becker from Munich. Gerhard Kabierske is an art historian specialising in architectural history and monument preservation. 19932020 he worked at the saai in Karlsruhe where he was responsible, among other things, for the Eiermann archive.
£26.91
Fagbokforlaget Some Houses
Book SynopsisHumans excel at designing and constructing technological marvels like cars and aeroplanes. Yet, when it comes to the very houses we live in, do we apply the same level of creativity and bold innovation? Or are we too constrained by notions of how we think things ought to be?In this beautiful book, architect and professor Fredrik Lund explores the concept of constructing homes that not only offer a refuge of tranquillity in our hectic, modern lives but also blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor living. Imagine houses with internal gardens, spaces that exist in a liminal state between inside and outsidewhere being indoors feels like an embrace with nature.Lund presents a unique approach to designing homes, drawing inspiration from the traditional Norwegian outbuildings, barns, and sawmills. He invites the reader into a vibrant world of unexpected delights, masterful woodwork, poetic expression, and an enhanced quality of life nestled in silence. Through his adept use of simple lines, Lund brings these houses to life, making them both accessible and vivid.
£49.30
Mousse Publishing A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive
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£27.00
Sharada Publishing House Pottery in South India
Book SynopsisCeramics play an important role in the study of archaeological sites and cultures. Pottery is one of the most abundantly produced material by the ancient communities. Pottery helps us in understanding the state of economy, food habits, technological advancement, trade and contacts, rituals and beliefs, etc. Much of the reconstruction of the history of any archaeological site depends to a great extent on study of its ceramic residues. The data on the pottery is scattered in numerous sources, which makes it difficult to have a synoptic view of the pottery traditions of a region in a particular period. The present work is aimed at filling this gap, and presenting the data in a single source in a comprehensive manner. The book has data on pottery assignable to different cultural periods starting from Neolithic period (from 2500 bce) to Early historic period upto 300 ce, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in South India.
£91.19
Lannoo Publishers Masquerade Makeup Ensor
Book SynopsisMasquerade, Make-up & Ensor transposes Ensor''s ideas around the masquerade, (false) coquetry, seduction, deception, the artificial and the ephemeral to today. MoMu (Fashion Museum Antwerp) celebrates the painters of fashion: the craftsmanship and inexhaustible creativity of make-up and hair artists in a book where light, colour, art, fashion and make-up meet. Make-up and beauty have today become a trillion-dollar industry that confronts man with his physical mortality, imagined imperfections and existential fears. But make-up, like paint, is also a form of personal expression, artistic experimentation, joy and freedom. Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor explores how closely make-up is intertwined with many aspects of our humanity.
£49.50
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut Living in Monnikenheide. Care Inclusion and
Book SynopsisMonnikenheide in Zoersel is a residential care centre for people with mental disabilities. A special place for special people, it is examined from an architectural perspective for the first time in this book.In the fifty-year building history of Monnikenheide, different architects have gone in search of new spatial possibilities, with inclusion as leitmotif. This has created a unique landscape that transcends the boundaries of care architecture. Monnikenheide is a powerful architectural statement about the place of people in society who depend on care.
£37.35
L'Artiere Im showing you how big the sky is The story of
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£27.00
Haymarket Books Country Queers
Book SynopsisPart photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US. In 2013, Rae Garringer embarked on the Country Queers oral history project with a borrowed audio recorder, a flip phone, and a paper atlas in a Subaru Forester with over 160,000 miles on it. Raised on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, they were motivated by an intense frustration with the lack of rural queer stories and the isolation that comes with that absence. “Queers, in all our forms, have always existed,” Garringer writes, “all across this continent since before it was colonized.” After years as a DIY, minimally funded, community-based oral history project, the work now takes a new form in Country Queers: A Love Lette
£17.99
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Draw It Happy
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£11.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sailboats
Book SynopsisOver 75 striking black-and-white prints of classic sailboats in action from world-renowned photographer Michael Kahn.
£999.99
The Monacelli Press Ballroom Marfa
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£31.96
Viction Workshop Ltd Packaged for Life: Chocolate: Packaging design
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£28.00
MIT Press Ltd When I Was a Photographer The MIT Press
Book SynopsisThe first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography.Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of “written photographs”), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's experiences in the early years of photography, memorable character sketches, and meditations on history. It is a classic work, cited by writers from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss. This is its first and only complete English translation.In When I Was a Photographer (Quand j'étais photographe), Nadar tells us about his descent into the sewers and catacombs of Paris, where he experimented with the use of artificial lighting,
£21.25
MIT Press Banksy Completed
Book SynopsisThere's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist.Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall.Seeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, econ
£28.90
MIT Press Ltd A Book about Ray
Book SynopsisThe first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. ?New York?s most famous unknown artist,? was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson?s practice as one that was constantly shifting?whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art. A Book about Ray takes an elliptical path, circling around rather than trying to arrest in flight the elusive artist and his purposefully ephemeral art. By crafting the book in this way, Levy evokes Ray Johnson?s art in the moment of its making and draws readers into the artist?s world, while making them feel, from the beginning, that they somehow already know their way around that world. In exploring Johnson?s scene, readers will also encounter the artists who influenced him, like Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, and his friends and peers like Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. The work of such figures will look forever different in light of Johnson?s subversive take on their shared aesthetic.Suitable for readers both new to Ray Johnson and those already familiar with his work, A Book about Ray is a complete and vital portrait of an American original.
£37.50
MIT Press Ltd Monumental Graffiti
Book SynopsisWhat graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression.What is graffiti?vandalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those things, we thought of graffiti as a monument? How would that change our understanding of graffiti, and, in turn, our understanding of monument? In Monumental Graffiti, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter focuses on the material, communicative, and contextual aspects of these two forms of material culture to provide a timely perspective on public art, citizenship, and the city today. He applies monument as a lens to understand graffiti and graffiti as a lens to comprehend monument, challenging us to consider what the appropriate monument for our contemporary world could be.Monumental Graffiti unpacks today?s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in?and whose are excluded from?public space. Written from twenty years of embedded research on graffiti, the book includes works from graffiti writers such as 10Foot, Delta, Egs, Honet, Mosa, Petro, Revok, and Wombat, alongside those of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Klara Liden, Gordon Matta-Clark, William Pope.L, Cy Twombly, and many more.Richly illustrated, this study of graffiti as monument and monument as graffiti is as fascinating as it is ethnographically expansive.
£28.80
MIT Press Ltd From Pessimism to Promise
Book SynopsisA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
£20.00
MIT Press Living as Form Socially Engaged Art from 19912011
Book SynopsisA monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production—one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice.Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team; each projec
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MIT Press Beyond Digital Design and Automation at the End
Book SynopsisRecasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In Beyond Digital, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, showing how the merger of robotic automation and artificial intelligence will stop and reverse the modernist quest for scale. Today’s technologies already allow us to use nonstandard building materials as found, or as made, and assemble them in as many nonstandard, intelligent, adaptive ways as needed: the microfactories of our imminent future will be automated artisan shops.The post-industrial logic of computational manufacturing has been known and theorized for some
£21.60
MIT Press Yasmeen Lari Architecture for the Future
Book SynopsisA rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to open her own architecture firm in Pakistan in 1964, developed Zero Carbon Architecture, which unites ecological and social justice. This volume, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, and Marvi Mazhar, presents Lari’s trajectory from exemplary modernist to zero carbon revolutionary, with a focus on her remarkable contributions to the global architectural movement to decarbonize and decolonize. The book includes extensive photographs, drawings, and plans from Lari’s archive, most of which have not previously been shown or published.Lari’s architectural thinking and activism have always gone beyond the quest for a singular built solution. Rather, she strategically plans systemic approaches and solutions, be it
£28.80
MIT Press Mortevivum
Book SynopsisA powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.Since photography’s invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the understanding that blackness and suffering—and death—are inextricable. Brown traces this idea from the earliest images of the enslaved to the latest newspaper photographs of black bodies, from the United States and South Africa to Haiti and Rwanda, documenting the enduring, pernicious connection between photography and a global history of antiblackness.Photography's history, inextricably linked to colonialism and white
£15.29
MIT Press Studies in Tectonic Culture
Book SynopsisComposed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book''s analytical framework rests on Frampton''s close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present.Kenneth Frampton''s long-awaited follow-up to his classic A Critical History of Modern Architecture is certain to influence any future debate on the evolution of modern architecture. Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton—the focus on architecture as a constructional craft—constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on the artistic limits of postmodernism, and suggests a convincing alternative. Indeed, Frampton argues, modern architecture is invariably as much about structure and construction as it is about space and abstract form.Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book''s analytical framework rests on Frampton''s close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present. He clarifies the various turns that structural engineering and tectonic imagination have taken in the work of such architects as Perret, Wright, Kahn, Scarpa, and Mies, and shows how both constructional form and material character were integral to an evolving architectural expression of their work. Frampton also demonstrates that the way in which these elements are articulated from one work to the next provides a basis upon which to evaluate the works as a whole. This is especially evident in his consideration of the work of Perret, Mies, and Kahn and the continuities in their thought and attitudes that linked them to the past.Frampton considers the conscious cultivation of the tectonic tradition in architecture as an essential element in the future development of architectural form, casting a critical new light on the entire issue of modernity and on the place of much work that has passed as avant-garde.A copublication of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and The MIT Press.
£41.25
Yale University Press Art Can Help
Book SynopsisA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned societyTrade Review“Robert Adams’s photo practice reoriented landscape photography to the effects of man on the environment. In the essays collected in Art Can Help he shares his responses to other photographers’ work. . . . About Terri Weifenbach’s picture of a bumblebee in flight: ‘What does the photographer help us find? First of all, astonishment.’”—William Meyers, Wall Street Journal (Holiday Gift Book selection)
£12.34
Yale University Press Edvard Munch
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking volume on Edvard Munch’s often neglected pictures of nature, exploring the Norwegian artist’s landscapes, seascapes, and existential environments in light of his own time and ours.
£33.25
Yale University Press Pierre Chareau
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£45.00
Dover Publications Inc. Horses Color by Number Coloring Book
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£8.54
Thames & Hudson Ltd North
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited monograph of the UK's leading graphic design and branding agency. The world is full of design companies, but none of them are like North. Formed in 1995 by Sean Perkins joined for the past 25 years by Jeremy Coysten and Stephen Gilmore the studio has always followed a highly individualistic path. This individualism manifests itself in many ways: most notably in the absence of a densely populated studio website; there are no hyperactive social media feeds; even the studio's name, derived from Perkins' origins in the unmetropolitan north of England, stands for frill-free, plain speaking, visual directness. It's almost as if North is a well-kept secret. Yet the group has a devoted worldwide following, and attracts myriad clients keen to hire them for their ability to produce memorable and carefully engineered visual identities. North's work is the product of sharp-brained research, high-end craft and precise visual expression. And as can be seen in the pages of this
£45.00
The Natural History Museum Natures Explorers
Book SynopsisThis sumptuous volume reveals the lives of some of history's greatest explorers, using the specimens they collected, the letters they wrote and the art they created to record their discoveries. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries have been specially chosen to illustrate each essay and many are published here for the first time.Trade Review‘A luxury coffee-table book, flick through it and wonder at the sumptuous colour paintings of plants, animals, landscapes and people.’ BBC Wildlife Magazine ‘Ten years ago I had the pleasure of spending a little time in the library at the Natural History Museum, London. One could have spent all day perusing the collection of historic natural history texts…. Fortunately, the museum’s publishing division regularly puts out books that showcase what’s in their collection and beyond… Nature Explorer’s, consists of chapters on 23 explorers and naturalists with full colour images of natural history illustrations, portraits, maps, or other drawings. There’s plenty to explore in the folks whose work “constituted what we might now look back on and recognise as a first broad survey of our planet, its life and its people”’ - The Dispersal of Darwin
£17.00
The Natural History Museum Natures Cathedral
Book SynopsisThe Natural History Museum is home to many rare and exceptional natural wonders - but the magnificent Museum building is itself one of London's most iconic attractions. Envisioned by Alfred Waterhouse as a cathedral of nature, the building he created is one of Britain's most striking examples of Romanesque architecture and is considered a work of art in its own right. This picture-led exploration of the building celebrates Waterhouse's unique architectural accomplishment and showcases many of the artistic gems it houses; not least it's incredibly detailed engravings, sculptures and painted ceiling.
£9.49
Quarto Publishing PLC Renzo Piano
Book SynopsisRenzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Written and created in collaboration with the Piano Foundation in Genoa, this richly illustrated volume covers the early work as well as the most recent designs, making a complete survey of his career to date. Starting with his beginnings with the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s (in collaboration with Richard Rogers) the story continues up to construction of one of his latest works, a spectacular new bridge in Genoa in 2020. The book explores all of the studio’s main projects: the public spaces and museums, airports, theatres, and libraries. As well as giving unique insights into the creative process of Piano himself, the book includes numerous unpublished designs and Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION PREHISTORY THE POMPIDOU CENTRE: A BOLT FROM THE BLUE THE WILDERNESS YEARS TURNING POINT: THE MENIL COLLECTION SCALING UP: OSAKA AND BERLIN BUILDING AROUND AN EMPTY SPACE PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE: RECENT ACTIVITIES END MATTER
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