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Book SynopsisFeaturing archive photographs, many of which are published for the first time,Lost Aberdeenpaints a fascinating portrait of one of Scotland's greatest cities.Diane Morgan charts the disappearance of the irreplaceable medieval townscape before moving on to more modern times, tracing the evolution and gradual erosion of the Granite City.

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Book SynopsisThe Black Drawings: Works on Paper is an elegant catalogue published to accompany Wes Lang: The Black Drawings, one of two London exhibitions marking Wes Lang's UK debut, opening on 27 September 2024 and running until 22 November 2024 at HENI Gallery. The exhibition showcases the complete series of The Black Drawings, created between 2022 and 2024, now on display for the first time. This book is dedicated entirely to Lang's prolific output in drawing, featuring 96 works crafted using acrylic, crayon and pencil. As George Vasey notes, the drawings mark a shift in the artist's approach.' The dark, otherworldly characters from his paintings skeletons and disembodied skulls remain, but now inhabit blank white spaces, intricately inscribed with playful expressions and phrases that echo Taoist philosophy, reflecting the spiritual foundations of Lang's practice. More than just companions to his immense paintings, the drawings stand as a significant body of work, continuing to demonstrate the breadth of Lang's influences ranging from fine art icons such as Francis Bacon, James Ensor, Francisco Goya, and Alfred Munnings, to the kitsch imagery of his childhood. Lang effortlessly metabolises these disparate inspirations, creating a distinctive style that transcends mediums and expresses a deeply personal artistic voice that feels cohesive rather than fragmented or frenetic. Published in association with Newport Street Gallery, The Black Drawings catalogue presents more than 100 stunning reproductions, offering yet another intimate glimpse into the richness of Lang's artistic mind and the world he has created for himself.

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Book SynopsisThe Hockney Interviews brings together expansive conversations held between art world icon David Hockney, who is best known for his large scale, vivid paintings, and pre-eminent curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist.Since their meeting in 2006, when Obrist first visited Hockney at his London studio, the conversations span a 16-year period to the present day. Exploring Hockney's dedicated and prolific practice, his relationship with fellow artists Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, fervent preoccupation with painting nature, ruminations on new technologies and his love of smoking - Hockney's musings are as bold and varied as his work.The Hockney Interviews is a hardback reading book and intimate portrait of David Hockney, one of the world's most distinguished living artists. Fully illustrated with artworks spanning the breadth of Hockney's artistic career.

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Book SynopsisThe first major monographic publication in English on the work of Blanche Hoschede-Monet (1865-1947), the step-daughter, and later, daughter-in-law, of Claude Monet.

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Book SynopsisChristoph Hesse Architects are based in Berlin and Korbach, a small town in the northwestern part of the German federal state Hesse. This rural area in the green heart of Germany is the location of most of the projects the firm has realised since its establishment in 2010. Yet occasionally, they also set out to plant rural concepts in an urban context. Christoph Hesse Architects and their friends see their designs as open places of culture. Catalysts for change in thought on one hand, intended to change people''s perspectives and stimulate their self-efficacy in society. On the other hand, as actual interventions in existing, globally prevailing structures that can be disrupted and changed locally. Thus, the firm distinguishes between projects acting as perspective changes and as system changers.Rural Rebellion is the first monograph on Christoph Hesse Architects. It constitutes also a manifesto against the late modernity's economy, which they see as based on unrestrained exploitation of nature, social coldness, and dependent on globalised markets. The projects and completed designs featured in this book point at alternative paths to follow. They are presented through photos and visualisations, drawings and plans as well as brief texts and interviews with the rural rebels.

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Book SynopsisThe go-to guide for the practice of sustainable urbanism, updated to include new case studies and analytic tools.Trade Review"What sets this work apart from other urban design handbooks is its detailed description of process and its emphasis on graphic design. . . . The handbook communicates process, methods, and techniques through effective use of high-quality graphics related to projects completed by the firm. This work updates the 2003 edition with new case studies and discussion of graphics software options. Recommended." -- CHOICE

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Book SynopsisWarwick Freeman, influential jewellery artist, merges New Zealand's history, unique materials, and Maori, Polynesian, and European symbols, creating culturally resonant designs that bridge traditions. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisThis text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church designed during his career.Table of ContentsPreface MICHAEL LAURIE Selected Bibliography MICHAEL LAURIE Foreword GRACE HALL Design 1 Introduction Discussion of historical precedent and the current attitude toward gardens. 2 The Site Affects Design Organization of the garden related to the characteristics of the site, its topography and soil, orientation and views, existing features and trees adjoining the property, and climatic conditions. 3 Design Principles Involving the principles affine art, unity, function, simplicity, and scale. Family needs, specific tastes and interests, upkeep. 4 Garden Architecture The house, entrance and other structures, pergola, pool house, steps, gazebo, etc. must interrelate with the design of the garden in terms of materials and forms. 5 The Palette Gardens are composed of a variety of materials and components. In this chapter these are illustrated as a vocabulary of design, including paving, pattern, plant materials, shadow, sculpture and water. 6 Swimming in the Garden A Garden Tour 7 Town and Country Gardens An informal walk through the gardens showing how some of the initial problems were solved, and how the application of good design principles produced the desired effect. 8 The Author's Garden Index

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Book SynopsisExamines houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an imaginary Spanish past; and in Sea Ranch, on the northern California coast, where the authors attempt to create a community.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in English in 1995, with an introduction by Robin Kinross, this edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers the contemporary thinking about Tschichold's life and work.Trade Review"Probably the most important work on typography and graphic design in the twentieth century." - Carl Zahn, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "If you're interested in design and typography, you should buy this book...it's still one of the best typographic how-to books we have." - Adobe Magazine "A comprehensive, practical handbook to guide the typographer.... The tone, here, is that of a master craftsman; practical and informative, it neither avoids detail nor loses sight of broad principles." - Times Literary Supplement "The book is as well worth reading today as it ever was.... Tschichold's lucid writing makes his words timeless." - Photography Annual "An essential text for understanding contemporary trends in visual communication." - Choice "Lucid, logical, impassioned, and challenging." - Journal of Graphic Design"Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword--Ruari McLean Introduction to the English-Language Edition--Robin Kinross Foreword to the 2006 Edition--Richard Hendel The New Typography

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Book SynopsisA collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. It lets us hear Guston's voice - as the artist delivers a lecture on Renaissance painting, instructs students in a classroom setting, and discusses various artists and writers.Trade Review"Lovingly compiled" Artforum "This hefty volume is 344 pages of smart art takes (Clark Coolidge, ed.) by the largely self-taught painter who, with pal Jackson Pollock, got expelled from L.A.'s Manual Arts High School in 1929." -- Christopher Knight Los Angeles Times, Culture Watch Blog "This is a book of wisdom, not only for artists but for anyone seeking to learn something from art." The Nation "Expansive" San Francisco Bay Guardian "Until now his influence has been through his art rather than his words. This collection gathers together interviews and studio discussions and commits the artist's words to print. -- Alexander Adams Art Newspaper "[Guston's] voice at its effusive best." Jewish ExponentTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction by Dore Ashton Statement in Art News Annual (1944) Statement in Twelve Americans (1956) Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin (1957) Interview with Sam Hunter (1957) From the Chicago Panel (1958) Statement in Nature in Abstraction (1958) Statement in It Is (1958) Statement in The New American Painting (1957–58/1959) Interview with David Sylvester (1960). From Panel at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (1960) Conversation with Bill Berkson (1964) Interview with Joseph S. Trovato (1965) Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting (1965) Philip Guston’s Object: Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1965) Faith, Hope, and Impossibility (1965/66) Conversation with Joseph Ablow (1966) Interview with Karl Fortess (1966) On Morton Feldman (1967) Conversation with Morton Feldman (1968) The Image (1969) On Piero della Francesca (1971) Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1972) Conversation with Louis Finkelstein (1972) Conversation with Clark Coolidge (1972) Talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art (1973) On the Nixon Drawings (1973) Ten Drawings (1973) On Survival (1974) On Drawing (1974) Conversation with Harold Rosenberg (1974) Talk at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978) From Panel at “Art/Not Art?” Conference (1978) Interview with Jan Butterfield (1979) Interview with Mark Stevens (1980) Interview with Joanne Dickson (1980) Studio Notes (1970–78) Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.Trade Review"Collects Schaeffer's journals and other writings about his musique concrete, which he created by manipulating recorded sounds." Harper's "One of the postwar period's most significant (and readable) grapplings with new artistic paradigms." -- Rob Young Frieze "Completely changed how I hear the world and, after more than 30 years, I am still living with the consequences." -- John Dack The Wire "One striking impression that emerges from reading this book is that [Schaeffer's] work merits a perspective with greater nuance." Times Higher Education "Captures these uneven rhythms of intuition and perplexity, and his imagination and wit." Los Angeles Review Of Books "Recommended." -- J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art ChoiceTable of ContentsTranslators' Note I. First Journal of Concrete Music (1948--1949) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 II. Second Journal of Concrete Music (195--1951) Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 1 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 III. The Concrete Experiment in Music (1952) Chapter 14. The Concrete Approach Chapter 15. The Experimental Method Chapter 16. The Musical Object Chapter 17. From the Object to Language Chapter 18. From the Object to the Subject Chapter 19. Inventory Chapter 2. Farewells to Concrete Music IV. Outline of a Concrete Musical Training Index

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the rapidly evolving creative processes and pictorial solutions Martin developed between 1940 and 1967 define all her subsequent art. This title offers descriptions of the networks of art, artists, and information that moved between New Mexico and the creative centers of New York and California in the postwar period.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...what in another writer’s hands might have been a dry academic treatise turns out to be a lively ramble through high and low culture, touching on the likes of Diderot, Goethe, David Foster Wallace, Susan Sontag, Sleeping Beauty, the Countess de Castiglione and Andy Warhol." * Wall Street Journal *"Reed seeds his profundities throughout Slow Art in example after example, weaving them into compelling histories that get you thinking about art in new ways." * The Santa Fe New Mexican *"It has an interesting point to make when it comes to the relationship between stillness and motion, layering and adding dimensions as well as approaching art from a “slow” angle instead of the artwork itself necessarily carrying such qualities. What seems to be a fad and neologism, is actually based on a concept that harks back to ancient times yet what is exemplified in the book is that it is inextricably with our current state of affairs and the future." * Scene Point Blank *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Video Examples Acknowledgments Introduction: Marking Time PART I: DRAWING OUT SLOW ART 1. What Is Slow Art? (When Images Swell into Events and Events Condense into Images) 2. Living(?) Pictures PART II: EPISODES FROM A SHORT HISTORY OF SLOW LOOKING 3. Before Slow Art 4. Slow Art Emerges in Modernity I: Secularization from Diderot to Wilde 5. Slow Art Emerges in Modernity II: The Great Age of Speed PART III: SLOW ART NOW 6. Slow Fiction, Film, Video, Performance Art, 1960 to 2010 7. Slow Photography, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, 1960 to 2010 8. Angel and Devil of Slow Art Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde discovery of African sculptureknown then as art nègre, or black arteventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, black art evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The Black Art Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments Note on Terms Introduction 1. Rethinking Fauve “Primitivism” 2. Picasso’s African Infl uences 3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora 4. Mancoba between Paradigms 5. Art Nègre and the École de Dakar Epilogue: Was Picasso “Black”? Archive Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisEven the briefest glance at an art museum's holdings or an introductory history textbook demonstrates the profound influence of Christian images and art. From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian narrative iconography to the appearance of portrait-type representations of holy figures, this book examines the primary theological critiques and defenses of holy images in light of the surviving material evidence for early Christian visual art. Against the previous assumption that fourth- and fifth-century Christians simply forgot or ignored their predecessors' censure and reverted to more alluring pagan practices, Robin M. Jensen contends that each stage of this profound change was uniquely Christian. Through a careful consideration of the cults of saints' remains, devotional portraits, and pilgrimages to sacred sites, Jensen shows how the Christian devotion to holy images came to be rooted in their evolving conviction that the divine was accessible in and through visible objects.Trade Review"Elegantly designed and replete with full-color illustrations (many photographs by the author), From Idols to Icons…will ignite scholarly dialogue beyond traditional disciplinary categories and methodologies into the foreseeable future." * CHOICE *"This richly illustrated and subtly argued account…commends itself, and the author’s commitment to, and, indeed, affection for, her subject illuminates the text as it does the images." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface 1. Early Christian Condemnation of Idols 2. Aniconism: In Defense of the Invisible God 3. Epiphanies: Encountering the Visible God 4. Early Christian Pictorial Art: From Sacred Narratives to Holy Portraits 5. Holy Portraits: Controversies and Commendation 6. The True Likeness 7. Miraculous and Mediating Portraits 8. Materiality, Visuality, and Spiritual Insight Epilogue: The Idols’ Last Stand List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Sources

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Book SynopsisThree Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art's first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was the most comprehensive display of American art to date in Europe and an important contributor to the internationalization of American art. MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938 explores how, at a time when the concept of artworks as masterpieces was very much up for debate, the exhibition expressed a vision of American art and culture that was not only an art historical endeavor but also a formulation of national identity. Caroline M. Riley demonstrates in what ways, at the brink of international war in the politically turbulent 1930s, MoMA collaborated with the US Department of State for the first time to deploy works of art as diplomatic agents.Trade Review"A detailed account of the many contingencies and the vast efforts, planning and negotiation required to stage an exhibition, particularly one on this scale and with an international venue. . . . An impressively thorough account." * Early Popular Visual Culture * "Riley’s contribution to the new scholarship on MoMA is timely and important to understanding the specific impact of the museum’s exhibition program on art history." * Panorama *"This well-researched and richly illustrated book significantly contributes to stress the centrality of museum studies within art and cultural history. Most importantly, it calls attention to the transnational character of ‘national’ imaginaries and the inherent reflexive nature of any cultural practice." * European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Was Three Centuries of American Art? 2. Loaning across Oceans: Symbolism, Risk, and Value 3. Creating a Contemporary American Art History across Centuries 4. Art on Paper Conclusion Appendix: Tables of Artworks Included in Three Centuries of American Art List of Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A reformulation in which ‘Afro’ and ‘Asia’ are loosed to orbit and collide with one another in new ways, presenting nuanced and timely approaches to exchange. . . . Kee’s rich interpretive geometry is a fractal that arcs towards the future." * ArtReview *"Wide-ranging and meticulously compiled, the volume examines artworks from the past century that push our conceptions of Afro Asia beyond the confines of identity and regionalism currently in institutional vogue." * ArtForum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Coincident Intensities: Friendship, Comparison, and the Afro Asian Body 2. Angles of Incidence: Interracial Encounters of a Photographic Kind 3. Integral Tangents: Black Arts of Asia 4. Adjacent and Parallel: Planes of Collaboration 5. Circling Afro China: The New Global Majority List of Illustrations Notes Index

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