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An iconic image has a tremendous ability to influence society, acting as both a symbol for a moment in time and as a harbinger for change. Instantly recognizable, it can become invested with our hopes and dreams, both on a personal and a cultural level. Creating such work is not mere happenstance, but is thanks to the deliberate choices and groundbreaking talents of a small handful of visionary artists and designers. John Van Hamersveld is one such creator, having produced such timeless i…
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Pictures and Words
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For over a year Juergen Teller contributed a column to the magazine of Die Zeit, Germany's most respected news paper. Given free creative rein, Teller presented a new image each week with an accompanying text he had written. Combining pictures and words in this way was new for Teller, and has since intensified the autobiographical element of his work. Like his images the texts are blunt, often controversial and irresistibly Telleresque. From the very beginning the column was greeted with …
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Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings
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Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important living American painters and sculptors. His career is closely tied to the abstract style of 'hard-edge' painting in the Sixties, with color field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form, frequently enhanced by bright colors. Alongside his geometrical paintings, Kelly is famous for his beautiful drawings of plants, flowers, and leaves, which were shown together with Ma…
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Micro-Architecture: Minimum Dwelling Spaces
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From the foldable home to blow-up shelters, a daring spirit pervades each project in this collection. Award-winning architects from around the globe have contributed their finest work in portable architecture: imaginative and provocative, the results push the envelope of what we think of as “architecture.” All projects are illustrated with full-color photographs, floor plans, and commentary from the creators. Portable Architecture is sure to be an endless source of inspiration for urban p…
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Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philoso…
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Stories 1,2,3,4
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Stories 1,2,3,4 is suite of four long-lost children's stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights. Newly translated from the French and collected in one beautiful volume, these "silly" stories, as Ionesco called them, will make ideal bedtime reading. Out of print since the 1970s, the four stories are accompanied by dozens of lush full-color illustrations?all of them hunted down and painstakingly restored by the original illustrator.
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The author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television discusses his assertion that capitalism is an obsolete model that causes unsolvable environmental and social problems on a planet with limited resources.
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Time of the Dapper Men
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It's winter in Anorev, and for Ayden it is time to move on in search of new adventures. Leaving Zoe and his friends behind, Ayden journeys to far-off lands with breathtaking new vistas and curious new companions. As Ayden searches for his old mentor 41, he discovers more about growing up and taking responsibility than he ever imagined. The exciting and fantastical sequel to 2010's Eisner Award-nominated Return of the Dapper Men, Time brings readers back to Janet Lee's beautiful decoupage …
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Fashion Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the History, Language, and Practice of Fashion
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Fashion Design, Referenced is a comprehensive guide through the art and industry of fashion design, richly illustrated with over 1,000 photographs and drawings. Within the framework of four central categories, Fashion Design, Referenced examines the many interwoven elements that form the tapestry of fashion.“Fundamentals” provides an overview of the essential structure of the fashion profession (its organization, specializations, and centers) and looks at shifts in style over time and in…
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In 1936 the first and only issue of the magazine telehor (Greek for tele-vision) was released in four languages, as a special edition on and by Lászl-- Moholy-Nagy. To celebrate its 75-year anniversary a facsimile reprint of the magazine will be produced, accompanied by a commentary volume. The reprint makes the magazine accessible again in terms of its artistic and theoretical-historical dimensions. Particular attention has been paid to the production process. Thus the volume appears spi…
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The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
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"The clear successor to Kushner's masterpiece, Angels in America, picking up many of the same arguments about love, sexuality, and politics while adding many more."—Minnesota Monthly "Sprawling, yearning . . . packed with a level of complexity, sophistication and understanding that distinguishes it as a potentially important new American work."—Variety Tony Kushner returns to his big topics with trademark humor and passion in a play titled after two nineteeth-century treatises…
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Vitamin Green
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Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century.Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best po…
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