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

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No marks in text. Not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure, from Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Founded 1991 on the principle of good books at fair prices. (case B).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 468pp with colour and b/w illustrations.

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Paperback. Condition: 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. Condition: New. Louis H. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellowship.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Aleksandr Deineka (1899-1969): An Avant-Garde for the Proletariat is the first exhibition and publication to present this outstanding figure of socialist realism - and, by extension, the historical period from which his work was borne - in a twofold context: the end of the avant-garde and the advent of Soviet socialist realism. It covers Deineka's entire oeuvre, from his early paintings of the 1920s to the twilight of his career in the 1950s, when the dreamlike quality of his first works gave way to the harsh materiality of everyday life, the life in which the utopian ideals of socialism seemed to materialize. Combining Deineka's graphic work, extraordinary posters and celebrated contributions to illustrated magazines and books with his imposing monumental paintings, this catalog displays a variety of subjects: factories and enthusiastic masses, athletes and farmers, the ideal and idyllic image of Soviet life.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (Grabs, Switzerland, 1962) surprises and provokes the spectator with her artistic explorations that delve into psychic and aesthetic landscapes, while penetrating the deepest strata of both the personal and collective consciousness, often straddling them both in a forceful and elusive manner. The book Friendly Game - Electronic Feelings, produced by Han Nefkens and designed by Thomas Rhyner of the Atelier Rist includes photographs of the artist's works at the Fundacio Miro with poems by Pipilotti Rist and texts by Martina Milla, Han Nefkens and Karin Seinsoth.…

Paperback. Condition: 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. Condition: New. Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews. Published in conjunction with the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs 2), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society functions as more than simply a catalog for the exhibition. The book features essays by Judith Butler, Okwui Enwezor, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Keenan, Achilles Mbembe, Retort, Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego, Terry Smith, and Ruti Teitel, as well as featuring images from the artwork of the ninety-one artists featured in the biennial. Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews the call for neighborliness in the present condition. Edited by Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of Biacs 2.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. This book presents objects from the 21st Century by Spanish designers of the 21st century. This publication is motivated by the conviction that the concept of the object, as such, has been left behind. The universe of objects, or perhaps we would have to say of "offjects," put forward here is that of the work of those generation that graduated after the Barcelona Olympics: from 1992 into these first few years of the 21st century. What seems clear is that the classic definition of "design" has been rendered obsolete. In the first place because an object's conceptual and narrative charge largely determines its material and physical configuration, and in second place, because many present-day pieces are not produced industrially - some because their designers chose not to, others because they seem not to fit into excessively conservative industrial set-ups. What does seem to be the case is that we are dealing with a new typology of designer, more open, more multidisciplinary and more remote from the traditional commercial circuit, which is not to say remote from the market. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Peter Friedl's work cannot be classified according to material or stylistic criteria. Nevertheless, his projects follow strict, methodologically ordered processes. An observer of his political and cultural environment, his projects react to concrete situations or events originating in the folds of history considered in the present and the collapses of collective imagination. In various formats his work is deployed in long-term projects. This publication features a personal and lesser-known aspect of his art: his drawings.…

Paperback. Condition: 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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Hardcover. Condition: New. Throughout the pages of "The Moustache of La Gioconda", Arroyo spells out a reflection on the copy, the reinterpretation, the intervention, the appropriation and the other adjacent artistic strategies, which he agglutinates with the appellative "pastiche" and, as he points out, which counted when he started his career with a new context that couldn't be rejected.…