Art in diverse social settings

This edited volume examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today’s diverse society. Built on a multidisciplinary and dialogical approach, the book brings together the views of scholars and artists from around the world to explore central questions relating to the purpose(s)...

Pure space

Floppy logic

Blueprint for a hack

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. “Blueprint for a Hack” aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, p...

Houston genetic city

Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate—from flooding to sea level...

Once more unto the breach

Container and modular buildings

Flowers of edo

Www.drawing

What is the role of hand drawing play for architecture in a digital age, as drawing moves off the page and onto the screen? How might computer-generated drawings emulate the ambiguities and nuances of the hand? WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel documents the eponymous pr...

Dana claxton

Colour, light and wonder in islamic art

An original investigation into the aesthetics of colour in pre-modern Islamic world

Torn signs

Aubrey beardsley

This 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsley through more than 180 of his art works, compiled under the supervision of Hiroshi Unno, a critic and a writer who has contributed to many books on the fin-de-...

Machiya: the traditional townhouses of kyoto

Human figure drawing

This book shows how to learn to draw the human figure regaining our ability to observe the subject.

Yokai storyland

The absurd and surreal world of Yokai is back with full of stories to tellFollowing the success of Yokai Musuem and Yokai Wonderland, we are proud to publish Yokai Storyland, the third book from Yumoto Koichi, renowned Yokai art collector who has collected more than 4,000 artworks ranging from pa...

Arabicity

Beautifully produced volume, including over 150 artworks by 50 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of region

Vertical urban factory

This revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities—both the modernist period and today—and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, and urban design. Vertical Urban Factory tracks the evolution of the vertical urban factory from t...

Platform 11

Pratt sessions

Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet open-ended. Based on an ongoing lecture series at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program, each session brings together two...

Khatt

Bringing together over 200 colour photographs, this is a beautifully produced source-book on calligraphy found across cities in Egypt.

New york: architectural guide

Future real

Breathing space

In this groundbreaking guide, former investment banker Philippe Espinasse explains the process of gathering cornerstone investors in connection with IPOs and other equity offerings.Using his trademark simple and jargon-free language, he details the targeting strategies, documentation, marketing, ...

Exploring hyperrealism

This original work introduces readers to the techniques from the hyperrealist movement, a style applied to painting and sculpture whose techniques aspire to photographic exactitude in drawing. In the pages of this book readers will find all the techniques and suggestions they need to make their o...

The witness as object

First comprehensive study on the musealization of video testimonies Its global outlook: The book considers the phenomenon of the musealization of the witness as a global assemblage and analyzes this phenomenon in memorial museums in Germany, Italy, the UK and Israel. The book tak...

Extinct monsters to deep time

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Rurality re-imagined

Against a backdrop of rapid urbanization, representations of rural society and experience are re-thought and re-imagined in this book by leading contemporary artists and scholars.

Neil denari

Neil M. Denari / NMDA: The Baumer Lectures contains transcribed conversations that were part of Neil M. Denari’s appointment as 2015-16 Baumer Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University.

Lessons in perception

It draws together cognitive film theory and avant-garde film theory. It is written in an intentionally accessible way. Particular films are analysed which haven’t been explored elsewhere. It also features (I think) the most detailed analysis of Robert Breer’s aesthetic to date. T...

Kimono and the colors of japan (new printing edition)

This distinctive volume reveals a unique antique kimono collection through various delicate Japanese colors and their use in kimono. The Japanese sensibility is immediately apparent in the classification of the nine traditional color categories of red, green, pink, blue, brown, purple, yellow, bl...

Views of violence

 Focus on WWII related memories in museum and memorials  International comparison (Germany and austria in the wider Wetern and Eastern European context + North America) Views of Violencepresents the first edited collection on the English-speaking market that targets the specific medi...

Elegance in japanese art

A fascinating book on the elegant paintings of birds and flowers in Edo-Rinpa paintingThe Rinpa school is one of the historical schools in Japanese painting established in 17th century Kyoto. Later in 19th century Edo (old Tokyo), Hoitsu Sakai, who worshiped and was influenced by Korin Ogata, rev...

Humanity

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a p...

New geographies 09

Breaking resemblance

The book explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion. It focuses on the ways artists re-appropriate religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power – iconic and political.

Black out

The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art formBefore the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Economical in every sense, the small, stark profiles cost far less tha...

Our voices

Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice.

Creating connections

A lavishly illustrated publication which explores an exceptionally diverse array of work by self-taught artists with wide-ranging backgrounds and motivations.Creating Connections features over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and watercolors from the Rosenthal Collection of work by self-taught...

Hirosaki museum of contemporary art

Glory and exile

Glory and Exile: Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson marks the first time this monumental cycle of ceremonial robes by the Haida artist Jut-Ke-Nay (The One People Speak Of)—also known as Hazel Anna Wilson—is viewable in its entirety. On 51 large blankets, Wilson uses painted and appli...

Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.

Rosalba carriera’s man in pilgrim's costume

New volume in the Frick Diptych series features a contribution by acclaimed figurative painter Nicolas Party paired with an illuminating essay by Frick chief curator Xavier F. Salomon.This pastel belongs to a small number of works of art at the Frick by a female artist. Rosalba Carriera (Italian,...

Unbound

New publication celebrates the dynamic tradition of narrative art among Native nations of the American Great Plains.Unbound shows the full expression of Plains narrative art, from historical hides, muslins, and ledger books to contemporary works. Illustrating everything from war deeds and ceremon...

Bellini and giorgione in the house of taddeo contarini

Reunites two masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance after more than four centuries apart.The Three Philosophers by Giorgione (Italian, 1477–1510) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and St. Francis in the Desert by Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1424/35–1516) in The Frick Collection, New York, are...

From shanghai to ohio

This brand-new, lavishly illustrated, publication features over 90 works by Woo Chong Yung, (Wu Zhongxiong), most of which have never been published or publicly displayed.Woo Chong Yung, (Wu Zhongxiong), (1898–1989), also known in the USA as C. Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrap...

Colors of kyoto

New volume in the Cleveland Masterwork Series focuses on a studio of important late nineteenth through early twentieth-century Japanese ceramic artists.This is the first comprehensive look in English at the Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio in Kyoto, from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the mid Shōwa pe...

Marvelous menagerie

Early days

Winner of the 2023 Canadian Museum Association award for Outstanding Achievement in ResearchA landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe ar...