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A general theory of visual culture
What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theo...
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Who owns antiquity?
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisi...
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Deserts are not empty
Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as “empty” spaces ready to be occupied andexploited. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories. This volume brings together a collection ofthinking from diverse voices to...
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A shared global heritage
This book draws attention to new methods of preservation, conservation, and reconstruction in these times of danger and risk.
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The archetypal world of henry moore
A groundbreaking exploration of the feminine archetype in Henry Moore’s sculptural worldHenry Moore (1898–1986) was an artist and sculptor renowned for his monumental semiabstract bronzes, many of them suggestive of the female form. The Archetypal World of Henry Moore is Erich Neumann’s thought-p...
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Today's comprehensive plan
A new model of comprehensive planning as a living process rather than a static documentHow does your community map out a long-term vision for the built environment? Most US cities and counties have long used the comprehensive plan for this purpose. While the plan was conceived to meet the existen...
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Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
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In the maze of media
Internationally renowned scholars, curators, and artists gathered in the present volume map and interrogate this intimate nexus by forging diverse pathways through the political force fields, technological milieus, and ecological environments in which both art and media are situated and interwove...
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Rodin’s egypt
A richly illustrated exploration of how ancient Egyptian art stirred Rodin’s imagination and inspired his sculptureCelebrated as one of the fathers of modern European sculpture, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) created expressive and emotive human bodies in works that abandoned narrative and embraced th...
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An even better way to zone
Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more affordable, equitable, and sustainable development, zonin...
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Speculative taxidermy
Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical an...
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Art and the creative unconscious
A landmark account of how artistic expression arises from the collective unconsciousThis book brings together four essays by analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, who explores the connections between creativity and the unconscious mind. The archetypes of the collective unconscious, he argues, ar...
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Architectural history and contemporary preservation trends
This collection presents compelling studies of pivotal cases in architectural history, illuminating the multifaceted challenges facing the field today.
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Embodying art
Chiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artif...
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Botanical illustrated guide to hong kong native plants
This beautifully illustrated guide presents a carefully curated collection of 20 plant species native to Hong Kong, with scientific, detailed illustrations and morphological descriptions, together with botanical references, all essential for species authentication.
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Emerging global cities
This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.
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Not what i meant but anyway
Not What I Meant But Anyway reveals the methods and processes behind Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's work and working. Intermingling conversations between the artists on living and working together, their generated ephemera, and a series of external reflections, the book hints at the intimacie...
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The whispers of the muses
In his fascinating book, Vjeran Katunarić starts out by presenting many artworks, from literature and visual arts to performing arts and architecture, as examples that demonstrate the transcendental potential of art.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 2 investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge.
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Common image
Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image—a multisensory perception and common ethics that transcend species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger th...
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From factories to palaces
WINNER, THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY NEW YORK, 2022 BOOK AWARDHow a prolific yet little-known architect changed the face of education in New York CityAs Superintendent of School Buildings from 1891 to 1922, architect Charles B. J. Snyder elevated the standards of school architecture. Unprecedented immig...
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Industry and intelligence
The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental dev...
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Taking stakes in the unknown
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9/11 and pre-Obama world. Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 3 is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. It takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and...
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Tattooing the world
In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these markings single...
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Paths to prison
<i>Paths to Prison</i> aims to expand the ways the built environment’s relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the Unite...
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Antiquity in gotham
The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structuresSince the city’s inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and purposefully engaged with ancient architecture to design and erect many of its most iconic buildings and mo...
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The national frame
The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the...
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Art after liberalism
Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others.
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Grammatology of images
Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science...
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Preservation, sustainability, and equity
Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. This book examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, institutions, and practices that must reorient toward a new horizon in which equity and sustainability become critical guideposts for policy evolution.
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China pluperfect
This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in the first volume.
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Detecting and modeling the changes of land use and land cover for land use planning in da nang city, vietnam
Da Nang City, located in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, has developed in many aspects in the last two decades and has been known as one of the five independent municipalities of Vietnam. Today, it constitutes the Key Economic Zone in Central Vietnam. Rapid industrialization and urbani...
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A true american
This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection...
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Design and solidarity
In this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.
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The artful plan
Architectural drawing today The Artful Plan explores the potentials of architectural drawing at a turning point where digitization is setting drawing free from its conventional function of conveying technical information. What can architec...
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The reality shows
The first decade of the new millennium brought to you by America’s pre-eminent and most notorious performance artist.
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Conscious community
This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T Cornelius focusing on “Decolonizing Indigenous Housing”; Abeer Seikaly “Conscious Skins” on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery Me...
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Click, bid, collect
Click, Bid, Collect offers a clear and insightful guide to the rapidly changing world of online art buying.With the online art market projected to exceed $13.5 billion in sales by 2027, Simone Falanca combines practical advice with thoughtful analysis to explore this exciting and growing space. F...
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Homecoming
A celebration of the art and career of Walter Osborne (1859–1903), one of Ireland’s leading landscape and portrait painters.Published to coincide with the artist’s first monographic exhibition organized in the United States, Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900 explores the...
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Robotic fabrication and architectural design
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 1: Integrated Approaches to Fabrication, Computation and Architectural Design presents design research from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design’s MSD-RAS program. At present, architectural design and construction approaches are unable to meet i...
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Celebrate people's history!
A full-color graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance—with an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and a foreword by Rebecca Solnit.
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Boucher’s four seasons
This new volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by former Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a images of a new work created for the occasion by Flora Yukhnovich, along with a short text by the artist.François Boucher (1...
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Street beauty
Street Beauty is high visual impact one-of-a-kind street art photography book by renowned international street art photographer Hannah Judah.Playfully designed and curated by ATMA, Street Beauty unlocks the wonder and beauty of large scale murals from hundreds of the world’s most recognized stree...
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The dialectics of art
In a sweeping survey of art from the dawn of the bourgeois era to the present day, John Molyneux explains what makes artistic production under capitalism unique, moving, and possibly revolutionary.
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In italy
Artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in drawings and sketchbooks for centuries. Over the past fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has recorded aspects of life and the environment in Italy: its cities and countryside, streets ...
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Grace hartigan
Important new publication brings together a selection of forty significant works by American Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan.Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention explores the significant impact mid-century American poets and poetry had on painter Grace Hartigan’s early career during...
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Movements: liat yossifor
Named an "Artist to Watch" in 2016 by Modern Painters Magazine, this is Israeli born, LA-based Liat Yossifor's first monograph.
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Mies in his own words
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches, and interviews. Read together, they reveal the breadth of Mies’ deep engagement with architecture ...
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