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Spiral-bound. Condizione: New.

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Louis H. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellowship.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Acting as a mirror of the fears and anxieties of the modern individual faced with society's transformations, the city gives shape to the ideal of progress, as well as to the frustrations when this ideal is not realized. Equally problematic and paradoxical, the literary image of the metropolis gravitates between idealisation and demonisation, as demonstrated by the modern novel from the 19th century to the present. In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect them, this book proposes a historical and critical revision of the literary image of Barcelona, constructed and re-elaborated over the past 150 years.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. v. 4; The fourth edition of the "European Landscape Biennial" has kept essentially loyal to its spirit as an European and international reference. The preoccupation for landscape has no need to be a closed nor elitist theme. Presenting the best works in landscape construction and their influences.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Sanja Ivekovic: Selected Works is a chronological review of this artist born in the former Yugoslavia from the specific installation Bez naziva (Untitled, 1970) and the urban intervention Prolaz (Passage, 1971) to the public project Mohnfeld (Poppy Field) which was shown at Documenta 12 in Kassel. Four brief analytical essays of her career will go along with the ilustrated descriptions of her work.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Fundacion Juan March presents this bilingual edition of Sean Scully's essay, Bodies of Light, as a supplementary publication accompanying the exhibition, The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism, on view in Madrid from October 5th, 2007, to January 13, 2008. The essay was first published in Spanish in the magazine Pasajes (Valencia). In Bodies of Light, therefore, Scully unites the artists who begin and end our exhibition and does it with specific reference to the proposal by Robert Rosenblum that inspired it: that of the existence of a line that connects the Romantic sublime of 19th-century Northern Europe with the American abstract sublime of the 20th century. It is perhaps no coincidence that Scully himself - an abstract painter born in Northern Europe (Dublin, Ireland, 1945), who became an American citizen in 1983, and lives in New York - shares biographical traits with that lengthy history.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Louise Bourgeois' work is profound and coherent, a cross between surrealism and expressionism, psychoanalysis and feminism, a fusion between object and concept. By means of spiral writing, symbolic in her prints, the artist rewrites her past through female identity and body image, a corporal synthesis of her every emotion and fear. She destroys and reconstructs her memories, like strange mutations or reflections in a distorted mirror. Louise Bourgeois (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Asier Mendizabal (b. Ordizia, Guipuzkoa, 1973) is a new generation Basque artist who pays special attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology. His oeuvre could be described as a critique of ideology, based on the mise en scÃÂ ne of the structures that shape it. Through art, rock music, cinema, politics and theory, his view on social structures leads him to sketch out a map of the totality of production relationships. Asier Mendizabal's transversal, multidisciplinary approach focuses sharply on the difficulties of representation inherent in the political, as well as on the gaps between artistic activity and the political unconscious; in cultural production and mass movements.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Warhol was an extremely public figure, but a very private person. His guardedness, offset by his desire to place himself in front of the media, has created a confounding situation. While Warhol masterfully presented a honed persona to the world, his façade also drove critics, fans, acquaintances, and perfect strangers to hunt for evidence of his personal life. As a result, many observers who did not directly know Warhol feel a personal claim to the white-wigged phenomenon and often refer to him as Andy. Rather than using Warhol s formal surname, his given name hints at heightened familiarity and understanding.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. The starting-point for Kooi s photographs (born 1962, Leeuwarden, Netherlands) is the Dutch landscape, which she transforms into the setting for ambiguous and inexplicable events. The apparent naturalism of her images, which always have the spontaneity of a snapshot, in fact derives from a complex creative process involving preparatory drawings, models, and design of the lighting and location in a way comparable to film or to the work of the great Baroque painters. This blending of naturalism and artifice gives Ellen Kooi s photographs a troubling atmosphere and one that exerts an undeniable attraction over the viewer s gaze.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The passionately narrative and visual work of Alice Creischer (Berlin, 1960) brings to life the forms, moments, and situations of capitalism s history, tales of exploitation and the distortion of the basic principles of western democracy. Researching the phenomena by which financial corporations operate internationally, Creischer uses installations, drawings, collages, articles and texts to explore the relationships between official government policy, financial business and culture, and the origins of alienation and manipulation. A thought-provoking analysis of her ethical and critical perpectives on contemporary liberal governments and financial, political, and social crisis. Contributors: Colectivo Situaciones, Alice Creischer, Bartomeu Mari, Andreas Siekmann.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. "Tomorrow Now" was created in collaboration with filmmakers (David Lynch and Shane Carruth), fashion designers (Paco Rabanne), designers (Dunne & Raby), authors (J.P. Telotte, Peter Cook), as well as diverse artists and architects. The first part of the book features key texts on design and science fiction regarding history, literature, film, architecture, fashion, art. The second half showcases images including international exhibitions and historical texts.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this ballad that alludes to the individual trauma consequence of the war, by means of the installation of a freize formed by panels made of compressed lint. The artist investigates the traumatic effect of the war, how it is shown by the media and its psychological influence in life.This publication not only reflects on this installation but also gathers a selection of important texts by the artist herself about her whole work.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Presenting EXPO Zaragoza, as a project for urban transformation and an international model for improving the city. A fascinating series of urban projects and corresponding presentations 2004-2008, linked with the Accompanying Plan for the Expo Zaragoza 2008 executed by the impulse of the Expo. The first section presents the key concepts that sustain the Accompanying Plan and its relation with the strategic, economic, cultural and urban dimensions with each participant. The second section approaches the recuperation of the Ebro as a new public space. The third section looks at the "Anillo Verde&", green ring, and includes the restoration of the Gallego and the Canal. And the final section explains the various presentations which will become the city s most visible legacy.…