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Condizione: Good. 8vo. Very Good. Hard cover. 175 pp. Color plates, architecture and furniture.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the first individual exhibition of Georges Vantongerloo in Spain. The catalogue reveals the grounding of his work in the re-conceptualisation of pictorial and sculptural space that marked the abstract tendencies in art of the early 20th century. In the 1920s an important part of the Vantongerloo's investigation was centred on colour as physical and perceptive phenomenon. Later, Vantongerloo will conceive his works according to strictly geometric rules, algebraic afterwards, to turn, thus, into the founder of the mathematical thought in art in our epoch. Genuine pioneer in the abstract sculpture field, the artist will continue, after 1945, proposing peculiar versions of that kind of sculpture, abandoning all the reference to a built geometry, and opening to a subjective approach to the universe of cosmology.…

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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. This book is a summary of the Third Rosa Barba European Landscape Award held in Barcelona, Spain in November 2003. The European Lanscape Architecture Biennial has become a point of reference for European landscape design and has expressed the desire to investigate and debate landscape intervention from the perspective of its own discipline and from the viewpoint of other fields involved in research and construction. The goal is to explore the limits of various new approaches to nature in order to understand and learn from its idiosyncrasies.…

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. Not only Mao before the masses, but also dozens of housewives armed with brooms, scores of Gillette razors and hundreds of Mon Cheri chocolates. In a play on perceptions in which nothing (or everything) is what it seems, in the midst of a profusion of food tins, cleaning products, cars, reinforced concrete buildings and motorways that populate the works of Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937). Acclaimed as one of the voices of Pop Art in Germany, the truth is that Bayrle's ironic, repetitive, almost grotesque visual displays ultimately subvert the paradigms of the Pop movement. His works are practically psychedelic maps constructed from mosaics of images and hallucinatory to a point far beyond pop's hypnotic and surface effects. This book, based on the first retrospective devoted to this artist of artists, reproduces part of his work.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book is a collection of products from young Italian designers, who were educated in state run design schools and universities. Over 200 products demonstrate the creations from these young designers, many self-employed others incorporated in teams in studios or in companies or in research centres. The Foreword includes the inaugural lecture given by Marco Zanuso at the start of the 1987 at the Politecnico di Milano.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. The Joan Miro Foundation presents "Her Memory", an exhibition by Kiki Smith organised in collaboration with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, containing recent work by this US artist. It could in fact be called an exhibition in progress, since it has been amplified in each venue anterior to the exhibition presented in the Foundation, which is the last location of this tour. Kiki Smith was born in Nurnberg in 1954 to an artistic family: her mother an opera singer and her father Minimalist artist Tony Smith. Her work is characterised by a constant reflection on human existence and on life and death; and her drawings of the human body, which are both traumatic and poetic. She reached international recognition at the end of the 1980s. In 2006-2007, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum in New York organised a touring retrospective exhibition, "Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005", which signalled the end of a period.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Islamic Mirror (2008) by internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor is the first project in a new annual series of interventions organized by the Department of Culture and Tourism, of the Government of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, in the public space and curated by Rosa Martinez. The Islamic Mirror installation in the Sharq al-Andalus Hall at the Santa Clara Museum propitiates an extraordinary conjunction of work and context that questions the cliched identification of public space with street space. After all, the public space also comprises places of historic condensation, which, protected and regulated by public institutions, are transformed into cultural heritage for individual and collective use, reflection and enjoyment.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. A collection of work by Colomer, an insider s view to his uniquely creative and multidisciplinary world. Jordi Colomer stages characters in urban spaces, in a way that is at the same time dreamlike and concrete. The silent cinema, the modernist architecture, and also common representations, ideological or commonplace, constitute important references in his work. The book approaches over 15 works, old and recent creations, many video installations, through sequences of images and texts conceived in a specific way. Featuring discussions and critical texts on Jordi Colomer, this is fascinating overview of his career and work which reveals his links between architecture, time, fiction, simulacrum, spectator, object and history. Travelling exhibition: Le Jeu de Paume (Paris, October 2008-January 2009), La Panera (Lleida, Spain, January-April 2009) and the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (MÃÂ xico, May-July 2009).…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Every human being is impacting by a limit, the limit of time. The ageing process, natural as it can be, is faced with the many obstacles that society imposes in order to avoid or prevent it's outcrop, and when they do they occult that they did, or at least try to disguise it. Including the term old; sounds awful to many people and is substituted in the western society for elderly, or older man/woman, grandmother/father, which seems to soften the implication and to palliate the harshness of age, the preamble to death that wanting to delay it. What importance do we concede to the experience, to the knowledge of having lived it, in days gone by without a price, the same in western culture as with other cultures, (Buddhists, Muslims.)? What can the consumer society offer to those who consume less and less and disappear form the work statistics and from labour activities? How does one speak of health to people who are unhealthy? Participating artists: Susana Casares / Ana Casas / John Coplans / Pau Faus / Hans-Peter Feldmann / Pere Formiguera / Manabu Yamanaka / Miwa Yanagi.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Last 2007 La Casa Encendida organised the Sueño de Casa Propia (Dream of a Home of One s Own) exhibition, curated by MarÃÂa Inàs RodrÃÂguez, in which a series of reflections on housing by artists, designers and architects served as the basis for an analysis of how different contexts produce different strategies for resolving the issue of access to housing. Parallel to the exhibition, a seminar entitled Housing and Domestic Space in the 21st Century was organised. Coordinated by Juan Herreros, an architect and lecturer at the Madrid University School of Architecture, the seminar brought together a group of intellectuals from both Spain and abroad for discussions on this theme. The ultimate aim of the seminar was to raise awareness about architecture s potential role in the current and evident transformation of lifestyles. With the collaboration of: Raúl Cárdenas, MarÃÂa Auxiliadora Gálvez, Vicente Guallart, Hans-Walter Müller, Philippe Rahm, Alejandro Aravena, Robert Kronenburg, Colin Davies and Enric Ruiz-Geli.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. For the first time in pubication, US artist Joseph Kosuth presents At Last I Thought I Understood (Madrid)]. Curated by Christian DomÃÂngue, this project represents a continuation of Kosuth s ground breaking installations and marks the beginning of a new series. This specially created installation features groups of luminous texts taken from works by the Latin American authors Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Juan Carlos Onetti. Kosuth also presents the project Located Work (Madrid) , created in collaboration with Mario Aguirre, Alexander Apàstol, Busto Bocanegra, Sandra Gamarra, Hisae Ikenaga and Ximena Labra. Joseph Kosuth (Toledo, Ohio, 1945) is a pioneer of conceptual and installation art. His work on the relationships between art and language has been shown internationally, including 5 editions of Documenta in Kassel and 4 editions of the Venice Biennial.…

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.…