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Taylor & Francis Ltd Around and About Stock Orchard Street
Book Synopsis9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and provoked debate, especially among architectural critics.With access to all the material records of the project, this book responds to that debate by presenting multi-faceted narratives from a wide range of writers that have been invited to reflect both positively and negatively on what the buildings represent and how they have performed. Using the buildings as the central case study, it situates them in a broader cultural context, revealing the breadth of conversations and issues engaged by architecture.Highly illustrated with original material, including the authors' own drawings and with specially-commissioned photographs, this book discusses theory, practice, ethics, materiaTrade Review"A tale of architecture getting back to its roots, reminding us, as we plough through our latest client's crippling appointment document, of all the resons why we strove to become architects, and giving clues as to how we might once again stick our necks out and the benefits of doing so to architecture." – Sean Griffiths, Building Design"Stock Orchard Street is one of those wild and influential projects in architecture that, just occasionally, re-direct our thinking. This book, that delves into the messiness of building, Renaissance ethics, contextual design and feminist materiality, is as exploratory, incidental, argumentative, open, polemical and enjoyable as the building itself. It celebrates the magical tension between us, our built environment and our notions of how that environment should be." – Kevin McCloud, author, broadcaster and designer"Like the house it assesses and celebrates, Around and About Stock Orchard Street is a one-off, a sum that is greater than its eclectic, eccentric, inventive parts. Touring the views presented by the house's makers and admirers is, in its way, as enjoyable as touring the house itself, and reminds us of what we still lack in any abundance in British architecture: a poetics of the 'hairy'." – Susannah Hagan, Professor of Urban Studies, University of Brighton"A tale of architecture getting back to its roots, reminding us, as we plough through our latest client's crippling appointment document, of all the resons why we strove to become architects, and giving clues as to how we might once again stick our necks out and the benefits of doing so to architecture." – Sean Griffiths, Building Design“This is a significant and engaging type of book about architectural practice that captures well the complexity of issues that influence on the design and construction process of the building...As a whole I hope that the book will serve as a blueprint for a new kind of writing on architecture that helps to open up the profession to a much wider public audience.” – Dr. Jan Kattein, The Journal of Space SyntaxTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction Part 1 The Client's Tale. Photo Essay. Telling Tales. Ordinariness and Perfection. Design Drawings. Part 2 House with Associated Office? Getting it Built. From Innovation to Commonplace. The Model: Deconstructed. The Excessive Materiality of Stock Orchard Street: Towards a Feminist Material Practice. Innovative But Daft? Construction Drawings. Part 3 SOS: Ten Years On. 9.5 Stock Orchard Street. The Intimate Inner. Correspondence from the Architectural Review. What Do We Mean by Green? A House Among Houses: The Idea of 9/10 Stock Orchard Street. Photo Essay. Out of Time, Out of Frame, Into the Box. 'To Make Wonders Plain': The Ethics of Stock Orchard Street. Appendices Gazetteer. Selected Materials Specification. Areas: 9/10 Stock Orchard Street. Contributors to the Building.
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Taylor & Francis Le Corbusier and Britain
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Justice in Developing Countries
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Taylor & Francis John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape
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Taylor & Francis John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape
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Taylor & Francis The Changing Shape of Practice
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Taylor & Francis The Changing Shape of Practice
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Taylor & Francis Asian Cinema and the Use of Space
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Taylor & Francis Ars et Ingenium The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martinis Drawings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Frank Lloyd Wrights Sacred Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Designing the British PostWar Home
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African American Architects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Le Corbusier An Analysis of Form
Book SynopsisThis unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more buildings. The Villa Shodhan and the Pavilion Suisse round out the coverage of Le Corbusier's significant works. The author critically examines Le Corbusier's achievements helping student and professional alike to appreciate the elements of successful design. The narrative and fine illustration cover the key buildings from each of the four developmental stages of his work, making it an excellent guide for practicing architects and students.Table of ContentsPreface. Prologue. Introduction. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The years of transition 1912-1917. The heroic decade 1920-1930. The post-war phase. Articulation systems.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mies van der Rohe Architecture Collection
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Taylor & Francis The British Building Industry since 1800 An economic history
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Taylor & Francis Towards Universality Le Corbusier Mies and De Stijl
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Taylor & Francis Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990
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Taylor & Francis Erik Gunnar Asplund
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher
Book SynopsisThis book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (19362022), many of which have not been published before. The book contains twenty-five essays and other works, many chosen from the newly organized Christopher Alexander archive, providing a window into the ideas and thought process of one of the most innovative architectural thinkers of the twentieth century. The items span Alexander's fifty-year career, beginning with an early version of his PhD dissertation based on fieldwork in India, continuing to fifteen years in the development of A Pattern Language, one of the best-selling books in the history of architecture, and proceeding to the writing of The Nature of Order, Alexander's four-volume masterwork, and beyond. The writings combine theory and descriptions of practice, and together support a blueprint for the development of a new, humane way of building, while also providing a window into the mind of Table of ContentsPreface, PART 1: THE LARGE AND SMALL DETAILS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 1. Perception and modular coordination 1959, 2. Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Contents, Preface and Part One in early draft 1960, 3. The Nature of Order, Book One, section on local symmstries 2001, 4. On changing the way people see 1964, 5. From a set of forces to a form 1966, 6. Center for Environmental Structure seminar report, excerpt, 1967, 7. Early ideas for the pattern language format 1967-68, 8. Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands 1969, 9. The atoms of environmental structure 1970, PART 2 : FROM THE CENTER TO THE UNIVERSE, 10. Value: a reply to Protzen 1977, 11. Centering 1977, 12. A shrine to color and light 1990, 13. OOPSLA lecture 1996, 14. Reply to William Saunders 2002, 15. Our new architecture and the many world cultures 2002, 16. Harmony-seeking computations 2005, 17. Conversation with Rem Koolhaas 2006, PART 3: THEORY INTO BUILDING, 18. The grassroots housing process 1973, 19. The growth of order from small acts 1974, 20. The architect-builder: toward changing the conception of what an architect is 1977, 21. Rebirth of the Inner City: The North Omaha Plan, excerpts 1981, 22. The construction of new neighborhoods for Guasare New Town, Venezuela, excerpts 1983, 23. Toward a personal workplace, excerpt 1987, 24. Construction management contract 1994, 25. Battle, unpublished chapter 2010, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index
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Taylor & Francis Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
Book SynopsisDecline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place.Drawing on mainstream, independent, documentary, and experimental films, the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the cityâs decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of âœnatureâ as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland, a hostile wilderness, a refuge and playground for outcasts, a home to resilient and resourceful communities, a studio for artistic experimentation, an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements, and a complex eco
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marco Frascaris Dream House
Book SynopsisThis previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari''s sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind.Trade Review'This book presents the architect, scholar and teacher, Marco Frascari’s offering to architecture. It achieves a rare unity of theory with design exploration and project design in both text and image. Beginning students will receive a comprehensive view of what design entails and advanced architects will enjoy following the paths traced out by his winged compass, the golden instrument of Frascari’s mobile and erudite imagination.' - Paul Emmons, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia TechTable of ContentsPreface. Panta Rhei: in the Drawn and Written Lines of the "Dream House". Reading Drawings: A "Science Without a Name". 1. A Congenial Inauguration. The Magic Meal. The Ingredients. 2. Telling and Casting. The Requirements of the Play. The Incubation 3. The Importance of Dreaming in Architecture. The Magic Threshold. A Mantic View. The Magic of Translation. The Trade. 4. The Origin and Beginning of the Dream House. The Practice of Dreaming. Description of the Design of the House-Tower. 5. The Present Architecture Smells Bad. Vita Beata. The Happiness of Bathroom Imagination. 6. The Analogical Monster. The Drawings of the House-Tower. The Recto and the Verso. Conclusions. Dream Long and Hard Enough. Drawings, Model and Sketchbooks for the House-Tower. Bibliography. Postscript. Federica Goffi Interviews Claudio Sgarbi: Oneiric Recollections of a Design. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Formalism to Weak Form The Architecture and
Book SynopsisPeter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman's architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is insidTrade Review'Despite his significant impact on architecture through both built and theoretical works, most studies of Peter Eisenman's career focus on either one aspect or the other. In From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman, Stefano Corbo attempts to redress this balance, connecting themes in the design and the theory of the influential architect across the many stages of his 50-year career.' arch dailyTable of ContentsFrom Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman
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Cambridge University Press Wrens Tracts on Architecture and Other Writings
Book SynopsisThis book examines the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. Wren posited a new version of the origins and development of the Classical style, thereby becoming one of the first to challenge theoretical principles of architecture that had been upheld since the Renaissance.Trade Review'… for everyone interested in the debate, a close reading of Soo's book will be essential.' Kerry Downes, Burlington Magazine'Soo's handsome edition is in every way a … usable and useful book to work with.' Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editorial note; Introduction; 1. Notes on the antiquities of London; 2. Notes and reports on Gothic churches; 3. Letter from Paris; 4. Letter on building churches; 5. Tracts on architecture; Conclusion: Wren's method of design; Appendix; List of abbreviations; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Robert Maillart Builder Designer and Artist
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Cambridge University Press William Wilkins 1778 1839
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Cambridge University Press Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Unity Temple
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Cambridge University Press Lewis Mumford and American Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Caravaggio
Book Synopsis“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” — Boston Sunday GlobeIn Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, made him an artist who speaks across the centuries to modern day. Called “racy, intensely imagined, and highly readable” by the New York Times Book Review, Carav
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Krazy George Herriman a Life in Black and White
Book SynopsisTrade Review“One of the many virtues of Michael Tisserand’s richly illustrated biography of George Herriman, the creator of “Krazy Kat,” is its evocation of the early 20th-century newspaper world from which it sprang.” — Wall Street Journal “Essential reading for comics fans and history buffs, Krazy is a roaring success, providing an indispensable new perspective on turn-of-the-century America.” — Kirkus (starred) “Who was the man behind “Krazy Kat”? This fascinating biography and guide to the work of the cartoonist, who passed for white, tells the full story.” — New York Times “Tisserand … has written the rarest kind of book: scholarship that is accessible and captivating, genuinely fun to read. His prose sparkles, smooth and flowing, rich with metaphor and invention.” — Chicago Tribune “... one of the year’s best biographies.” — Boston Globe “Krazy, so rich in anecdote and so warm in affection, succeeds in adding a good deal to the wonder of George Herriman’s legacy – mainly by putting the artist in last place on Earth he liked to be: in the spotlight, center stage.” — Christian Science Monitor “It’s one of the best true stories told in 2016.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “... engaging, revealing…. Herriman’s adventures in newspapering in the early years of the 20th century are alone worth the price of the book.... Whether you’re a longtime Krazy Kat fan, as I am, or a new acquaintance, this biography will enrich your knowledge of the Kat and its creator.” — Tampa Bay Times “Perhaps no one in his field is as deserving of a top-notch, in-depth biography as Herriman. And with Michael Tisserand’s Krazy we now have a most valuable, studiously researched, and, indeed, definitive profile of the man that does him full justice.” — Print “Herriman’s delight in anarchic transformation and gentle subversion had personal roots, as Michael Tisserand reveals in this scrupulously researched, luminously written and eye-opening biography.” — The Times Literary Supplement “A visionary strip. Who drew it, and wherefrom? Tisserand’s robust research illuminates, without diminishing, the mystery.” — Roy Blount Jr. “An athletic feat of scholarship and an effort of love—like one of Ignatz’s bricks to the head. Tisserand’s immaculately researched and super-readable biography captures the madcap modernist Herriman and the weird America of surreal racial realities and publishing superpowers that shaped his revolutionary art.” — Hillary Chute “George Herriman was a poet in a new visual language. As a man, he was an enigma to match his greatest creation, the sublime Krazy Kat. Michael Tisserand has done a masterful job of illuminating this life lived in the shadowy borderlands of racial identity; along the way he also gives a brilliant overview of the golden years of American cartooning. Krazy is a monumental work of biography about a true American genius.” — Tom Piazza “This is a gripping read at the intersection of pop culture and American history.” — Publisher’s Weekly “An absorbing study of a genius with a secret.” — New Orleans Times-Picayune “Rich in original research, New Orleans writer Tisserand’s encyclopedia biography of Krazy Kat artist George Herriman is also an enlightening history of modern comic strips.” — Shelf Awareness “Tisserand presents a well-researched, engaging biography of George Herriman (1880-1944), creator of the comic strip Krazy Kat.... At every step, this work brilliantly re-creates the milieu of its subject’s life by shading in the historical context. A significant book for comics scholars and those interested in tracing Herriman’s development from novice to master of the medium.” — Paul Steins, Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc What Becomes a Legend Most A Biography of Richard
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wise and ebullient . . . . Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon’s photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you’re thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon’s actual images . . . . One of the achievements of Gefter’s biography is to argue persuasively for Avedon’s place, as a maker of portraits, as one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times "Gefter weaves the particulars of Avedon’s life story into a larger narrative about American culture in the decades after World War II . . . . Read in the context of our own precarious political and ecological moment, this assessment alone argues eloquently for the abiding, even urgent relevance of Avedon’s imperfect Art." — Caroline Weber, New York Times Book Review “Imagine the offspring of Marcel Proust and the Energizer Bunny—that’s who Richard Avedon was, a chronicler of fashion, an analyst of social types, the author in pictures of his era. And Philip Gefter captures him. His biography is an Avedon of Avedon.” — Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Metaphysical Club “Mesmerizing. . . . Like Avedon’s blank white backgrounds, blasted with light, Gefter’s pages expose in a controlled and intelligent manner all the bigness and littleness of one of the greats.” — Brad Gooch, New York Times bestselling author of Flannery and City Poet "A compelling, beautifully written examination of Avedon's life as it reflects the larger cultural milieu of post–World War II New York, and, more importantly, an argument for the role of the artist in contemporary society." — Stephen Shore, photographer "The portrait that emerges in these pages is not only a biography of the artist—his professional triumphs and disappointments and personal demons—but also a beautifully written assessment of his work, which brings Avedon to life and also vividly evokes his most memorable images." — Kate Betts, Air Mail “Revealing, fluent, and very well written—an exemplary biography of an underappreciated artist.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Gefter’s expert, comprehensive, and sensitive biography embodies the electricity and complexity of Avedon’s work as he centers Avedon within the crossfire of both the battle to legitimize photography as a fine art form and the struggle for gay rights… Gefter’s engrossing portrait of a master portraitist vividly proves his claim that Avedon is “one of the most consequential artists of the twentieth century." — Booklist, starred review "Definitive and insightful." — Publishers Weekly "With this engrossing biography, readers will come away with a greater appreciation of Avedon’s artistic strengths and achievements, as well as the complex man behind the camera." — Library Journal (starred review) "Philip Gefter’s welcome new biography . . . takes Avedon at his own estimation as a serious 20th-century artist. It creates a dense, convincing portrait of a man with huge talent and a gift for life." — Scott Eyman, Wall Street Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Short Life in a Strange World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
Book SynopsisNational BestsellerA landmark and long-overdue cultural history. —VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple—Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc TwentiethCentury Man
Book SynopsisAn exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life.Trade Review"The author succeeds in looking beyond Beard's surface appeal as the 'ideal avatar for our adventurous impulses, shirtless on a perpetual safari,' to explore what he calls Beard's fatalism, his 'heartbreak over the destruction of the natural world'...A vivid account of a life devoted to the African wild." — Kirkus Reviews “Spirited… Wallace blends biography, art criticism, reportage and essayistic digressions to create a portrait of a man so disillusioned with civilization that he sought to ‘rewild himself.’ . . . the man is sharper as a result.” — Washington Post
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Penguin Putnam Inc In Montmartre
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MIT Press Ltd Gyorgy Kepes The MIT Press Undreaming the Bauhaus
Book SynopsisHow Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” Kepes and his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians—became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the C
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MIT Press Ltd Stalins Architect
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Yale University Press Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau
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Alfred A. Knopf A Life of Picasso IV The Minotaur Years
Book SynopsisThe beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso’s life—set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II—covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; and his muses Marie-Thérèse, Dora Maar, and Françoise Gilot; and much more.Including 271 stunning illustrations and drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to Picasso’s chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Thérèse, Picasso’s mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to André Breton’s Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul &Eacu
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Alfred A. Knopf Francis Bacon Revelations
Book SynopsisTHE TIMES BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD AND THE APOLLO AWARD • “There are not many biographical masterpieces, but…Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have produced one,” wrote the novelist John Banville of Francis Bacon: Revelations. By the Pulitzer prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master, this acclaimed biography contains a wealth of never before known details about one of the iconic artists of the 20th century—a singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his extraordinary art, whose iconoclastic charm “keeps the pages turning” (The Washington Post).Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both twentieth century art and life—from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych 1944 (its images so unrelievedly awful that people fled th
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Random House Canada Northern Light
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Random House USA Inc The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Book SynopsisHere is the most important autobiography from Renaissance Italy and one of the most spirited and colorful from any time or place, in a translation widely recognized as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original.Benvenuto Cellini was both a beloved artist in sixteenth-century Florence and a passionate and temperamental man of action who was capable of brawling, theft, and murder. He counted popes, cardinals, kings, and dukes among his patrons and was the adoring friend of—as he described them—the “divine” Michelangelo and the “marvelous” Titian, but was as well known for his violent feuds. At age twenty-seven he helped defend the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, and his account of his imprisonment there (under a mad castellan who thought he was a bat), his escape, recapture, and confinement in “a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms” is an adventure equal to any other in fact or fiction. But it is only one in a lo
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Alfred A. Knopf Building Art The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Listening to Stone
Book SynopsisA master of what he called the sculpturing of space, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged anywhere and spent his life assembling identities in his statues, monuments, and gardens. He traveled incessantly from New York to remote Japanese islands, from Paris to Bangladesh, synthesizing aesthetic values. The result--massive sculptures of interlocking wood, Zen-like gardens of granite, and stone slides--is now seen as a powerful artistic link between East and West.Drawing on Noguchi''s personal correspondence and interviews with artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers, Hayden Herrera creates another compulsively readable biography of one of the twentieth century''s most important artists. Noguchi was elusive, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the keen edge of originality. Yet Herrera locates this man in his friendships with artists like Buckminster Ful
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Random House USA Inc The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse The
Book SynopsisHenri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images--yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last.Matisse was born into a family of shopkeepers in 1869, in a gloomy textile town in the north of France. His environment was brightened only by the sumptuous fabrics produced by the local weavers--magnificent brocades and silks that offered Matisse his first vision of light and color, and which later became a familiar motif in his paintings. He did not find his artistic vocation until after leaving school, when he struggled for years with his father, who wanted him to take over the family seed-store. Escaping to Paris, where he was scorned by the French art establishment, Matisse lived for fifteen years in great poverty--an or
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Random House USA Inc Matisse the Master
Book Synopsis“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated baseless fabrications about his private life. Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperati
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