2008/01/31

Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids




Doug Aitken: A-Z Book (Fractals)





2008/01/29

AGI: New Voice




Les Plus Petites Maisons




2008/01/28

a+u Special Issue: Cecil Balmond





2008/01/27

Lygia Clark




  • texts: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Guy Brett, Ferreira Gullar, Paulo Herkenhoff, Suely Rolnik
  • designer: Edicions de l'Eixample
  • publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies
  • publication date: 1998
  • 368 pages, color & b/w
  • language: Portuguese/French
  • isbn: 2711836649
  • This catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibitions 'Lygia Clark' at the following museum from 1997 to 1999; Fundação Serralves (Porto), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), MAC/Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille (Marseille), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris), Société des expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Paço Imperial (Rio de Janeiro).
  • Fundació Antoni Tàpies: Programme: Lygia Clark
  • Fundació Antoni Tàpies: Publicatons: Lygia Clark
  • Lygia Clark Org
  • Wikipedia: Lygia Clark
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2008/01/25

Sils




  • author: Gerhard Richter
  • editor: Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • texts: Hans Ulrich-Obrist, Peter André Bloch
  • publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Walther Konig
  • publication date: November 2002
  • 86 pages, 41 plates (full color)
  • language: English/German/French
  • isbn: 9781891024559
  • from the publisher's site: Whenever Gerhard Richter goes to Sils, a small town in the Swiss Alps, he makes photographs, some of which he overpaints and adds to his Atlas. Others he treats as autonomous works, as in those presented in this intimate artist's book. In the overpainted photographs, the levels of reality evident in photography are combined with those that exist in painting. However, the paired concepts prove redundant of both the realism in photographic representation and the abstraction in nonfigurative painting. The photographs reveal a parallel between both forms of painterly practice, evidence of the simultaneous existence of contradictory bodies of work in Richter's oeuvre.
  • D. A. P.: Gerhard Richter: Sils
  • Gerhard Richter
  • Gerhard Richter Archive
  • Wikipedia: Gerhard Richter
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2008/01/24

LOVABLE, alternative folk design




2008/01/23

The 2000 Excellence in Design Award: Rei Kawakubo




2008/01/20

Cappuccetto Giallo




2008/01/19

Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses




Radical Fashion





2008/01/18

Archigram




2008/01/17

Kiwamete Yoi Fukei (Extremely Good Scenery) = Short Hope




  • author: Takashi Homma
  • text: interview of Takuma Nakahira by Takashi Homma
  • designer: Kazunari Hattori
  • publisher: Little More
  • publication date: June 2004
  • 112 pages, full color
  • isbn: 489815123X
  • This is the photobook featuring the photographer Takuma Nakahira in his daily life. Homma also directed the movie of the same title.
  • from the publisher's site: Takashi Homma, one of the representing photographers in Tokyo, shoots the life of legendary photographer Takuma Nakahira. During the 1960's and 1970's when new movements was beginning to grow up in each field, Takuma Nakahira denied the existent expressions of photography, by the radical words and works. Also, the smart and great photographer had provoked and led the times. In 1997, he had went into coma at a party, and lost his whole memory. This book shows the photographer's life after the sufferings.
  • Little More: Kiwamete Yoi Fukei (on the movie, Japanese)
  • culturebase.net: Takashi Homma (last updated October 31, 2005)
  • Shugoarts: Takuma Nakahira
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2008/01/15

Inframince: Duchamp empaqueté




2008/01/14

Nakaji Yasui 1903-1942: The Photography




  • photographer: Nakaji Yasui
  • texts: Nakao Yasui, Yuri Mitsuda, Norihiro Nakajima, Joe Takeba
  • publisher: Kyodo News, Tokyo
  • publication date: 2004
  • 322 pages, double tone
  • language: Japanese/English
  • This is the catalogue of the first full-scale retrospective of Japanese legendary photographer Nakaji Yasui titled 'Nakaji Yasui 1903-1942: The Photography' at The Shoto Museum of Art (Tokyo) & Nagoya City Museum, from 2004 to 2005. The catalogue has been published as the hardbound book after the exhibition (isbn: 9784764105423).
  • Wikipedia: Nakaji Yasui
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