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A year without a winter
This book brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration to reframe the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. A Year Without a Winter presents stories by four renowned science fiction authors alongside critical essays, extracts from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...
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From abyssinian to zion
From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining mome...
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Modern management methods
Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. It uses the imaging techniques of conservation and the documentary detritus of heritage preservation to show how scientific methods attempt to...
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At home in the world
Gulammohammed Sheikh has played a pioneering role in contemporary Indian art’s engagement with hybridity. At Home in the World presents the first comprehensive study of the art and life of this seminal figure, bringing together aspects of biographical discussion alongside other modes of art histo...
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Through the roof
This report shows what local governments can do to mitigate the rising cost of rental housing. It considers the root causes of high rent burdens, reviews evidence about the consequences, and lays out a framework that cities, towns, and counties can use to help provide all their citizens with safe...
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The worth of art
Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin provide an expert guide to the methods, risks, and rewards of investing in art. They detail how to apply the financial and statistical tools and techniques used to evaluate more traditional investments such as stocks, bonds, and real estate to art markets.
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Nights of the dispossessed
<i>Nights of the Dispossessed</i> brings together artistic works, political texts, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to sense, chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings.
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I declare a permanent state of happiness
This book places artworks by Kenneth Goldsmith side-by-side with the original text of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
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2000+
Has architectural theory become a historical phenomenon to be anthologized and studied as another passing phase in the history of the discipline? Do the current commonplace watchwords of "practice" and "research" mark the end of theory's place in architectural discourse? This edited volume posits...
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Dealing with the yugoslav past
This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and l...
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Geometries of silence
Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration. The source documents, together with the nexus of relat...
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Archaeology on medieval knights' manor houses in poland
The relics of medieval knights' manors still shape the landscape of Poland today. The anonymous hills contain the remnants of wooden buildings, sometimes ones of stone or brick, as well as numerous tiny artifacts, the trace of the households of the past. Called "grodziska stozkowate" (motte), unl...
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Only too much is enough
In this volume, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon's long-time friend and biographer, has gathered Bacon’s most memorable aphorisms.
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And now
The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-...
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Preservation is overtaking us
Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero-Pailos. In the first essay Koolhaas describe...
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Contemporary ukrainian and baltic art
This volume focuses on political and social expressions in the contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. It explores the transformations since independence in 1991, discussing how the conflicts and challenges of the last three decades have affected the reconsideration of identi...
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Indian architecture in postcards
Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards this book explores the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s.
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Dimensions of originality
Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, "different"; but seconda...
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Artistic transfer
Ursula Bertram contends that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in nonartistic fields, a crucial pattern called artistic transfer emerges.
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A legacy of elegance
Many Shang dynasty inscribed oracle bones were found at Yinxu, Henan province. Their purpose and function shed significant light on the origin of Chinese culture, disclosing major concerns of the time. Shang oracle-bone script is the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, which is a c...
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Maria lassnig
Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This publication provides the first comprehensive index of Lassnig’s film works, offering insight into the filmmaker’s world of ideas through a wide selection...
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Art intelligence
Jan Svenungsson investigates what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.
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Ewa partum's artistic practice
The Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Karolina Majewska-Güde articulates the historical alterity of Ewa Partum’s works in their various locations and the specificity of the positions from which Part...
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Arc silt dive
Over the last three decades, Sheba Chhachhi has developed an art practice that traverses the fields of documentary photography, installation, video and new media, creating immersive environments and bringing the contemplative into the political, in both site-specific public art and independent wo...
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Secrets of beauty
As well as throwing new light on the author’s own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
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Border wall aesthetics
Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Banksy, and Frida Kahlo.
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Partisans of the nude
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
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Kenneth frampton: conversations with daniel talesnik
This book Presents seven interviews with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton, reflecting on the long arc of his career in the discipline.
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A house is not just a house
A House Is Not Just a House argues precisely that. The book traces Tatiana Bilbao’s diverse work on housing ranging from large-scale social projects to single-family luxury homes. These projects offer a way of thinking about the limits of housing: where it begins and where it ends. Regardless of ...
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The arts of war: ukrainian artists confront russia
The stories presented here from the war’s third year highlight the ways in which Ukrainians have explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts; and how the arts have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders.
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Pop beckett
This collection of essays examines how popular cultural forms and media are woven into the fabric of Beckett’s works and how Beckett continues to have far-reaching impact on popular culture today in a host of different forms, in film and on television, from comics to meme culture, tourism to mark...
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Columbia in manhattanville
In 2003, Columbia University began planning an expansion into neighboring Manhattanville, the site of the soon-to-open campus designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The story of the project is a complex one—a university bursting at the seams, the changin...
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Disturbed ecologies
This book critically addresses the geopolitics of environmental devastation from the perspective of photographers, artists, curators and theorists. The contributors engage with recent debates about the Anthropocene and the need to identify the socioeconomic and political causes of climate change.
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Concrete and water
An extraordinary ethnographic dive into documenta fifteen, analyzing its organization, execution, impact, and unique atmospheric forces.
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Satyajit ray on cinema
Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sans...
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The mereological city
In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It remind...
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Agnes martin – transcultural translations
How is Agnes Martin’s work shaped by Asianist aesthetics? Redefining Postwar American Art through transcultural translation.
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Let them haunt us
This book redefines trauma as a productive framework for exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian con...
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Preservation and the new data landscape
This book explores how enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can aid in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings, and planning sustainable growth. For preservation to play a dynamic and inclusive role, policy must evolve beyond designati...
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Speech acts
Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Geeta Kapur’s contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures
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A brief history of the masses
Stefan Jonsson uses three monumental works of art to build a provocative history of popular revolt: Jacques-Louis David's The Tennis Court Oath (1791), James Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), and Alfredo Jaar's They Loved It So Much, the Revolution (1989). Addressing, respectiv...
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Nature and cities
This illustrated collection of essays by leading international architects, landscape architects, city planners, and urban designers demonstrates the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities.
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Music in cinema
Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform eac...
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Samuel beckett and contemporary art
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art—he is, in fact, a contempora...
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Unhoused
Unhoused is the first study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Matt Waggoner tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno’s texts—homelessness, no man’s lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation—and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for toda...
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