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New Belgrade represented a material and social experiment for a new society in post-war Yugoslavia. As the city and the country were being simultaneously built, the philosophy of praxis was developing in both the Yugoslavian and the international scene. Praxis of Collective Building deals with the interactions between this school of thought and the histories of architectural construction sites. By closely studying the microhistories of construction, the author considers the theoretical problems of collective production through different narratives: voluntary youth actions in the construction of New Belgrade through the lens of Marxian praxis, participative prefabrication as a way of addressing housing shortages in Yugoslavia, and the transfer and adaptation of the Yugoslavian prefabricated system to the Cuban context by the microbrigade movement.

“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895–1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner’s sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americans with those of Black South Africans under the segregationist policies of the time. During her travels, this woman of modest means circulated among South Africa’s Black intellectual elite, including many leaders of South Africa’s freedom struggle. Her lectures at Black schools on “race consciousness and race pride” had a decidedly political bent, even as she was presented as an “American beauty specialist.”

Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is edited by Wright scholar and noted author Neil Levine and features essay contributions by all three Jacobs children (Susan, Elizabeth, and William), as well as new scholarly essays by Levine and Michael Desmond. Additionally, the book includes new biographies of Katherine and Herb Jacobs, as well as scores of never-before-published photographs and drawings of both Jacobs Houses. It's the most definitive publication on the history and experience of living in these icons of American architecture.

Klassiker erstmals in deutscher Sprache Gartengestaltung ist eine wichtige Komponente der traditionellen chinesischen Kunst und lässt sich bis in das 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. zurückverfolgen. Seither hat sich ein weltweit einzigartiger Stil herausgebildet. Parallel zur Anlage immer wieder neuer und einzigartiger Gärten haben sich seit Jahrhunderten auch Gelehrte mit diesem Thema aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln beschäftigt. Das vorliegende Buch vom international anerkannten Experten Chen Congzhou ist ein Klassiker in der Literatur über chinesische Gartenkunst. Chen unterteilt chinesische Gärten in zwei Arten, in jene zur statischen Betrachtung und jene zur dynamischen Betrachtung. In Ersteren gibt es viele Plätze, auf denen man sich aufhalten und den Garten auf sich wirken lassen kann. Letztere sind in der Regel mit längeren Spazierwegen ausgestattet. Gemeinsam ist allen idealen chinesischen Gärten, dass sie nach dem Prinzip angelegt sind, dass weniger manchmal mehr ist, und so ein Gefühl der Unendlichkeit hervorgerufen wird. Die vorliegende deutsche Erstausgabe wurde von Chen Congzhou von 1978 bis 1982 geschrieben und in fünf Essays, nacheinander erschienen im Journal of Tongji University, veröffentlicht. Sie wurden aufgrund der anhaltenden Nachfrage zunächst als limitierte einfache und bilderlose Buchausgabe für die Studierenden der Universität zusammengefasst und schließlich als Buch mit über 20 Fotos, 10 Zeichnungen und chinesischer Kalligrafie von Jiang Qiting veröffentlicht. Chen Congzhou (1918-2000) war Experte in chinesischer Architektur und Gartengeschichte. Er setzte sich für die Erhaltung der natürlichen Umwelt und die Restaurierung vieler historischer Bauten ein. Seine zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen über traditionelle chinesische Gebäude und Gärten wurden auch ins Englische übersetzt. Kurze Geschichte chinesischer Gartenbaukunst Handliches Buchformat mit Kalligrafie, über 20 Fotos und 10 Handzeichnungen der schönsten Gärten Geschrieben für alle, die Freude an Gartenkunst haben

"Amalia Mesa-Bains gathers the cherished items of a woman's life and transforms them into the sacred. In doing so, she confirms we are shamanas, visionaries, creators, culture keepers. Amalia Mesa-Bains's artistry is an alchemy of love."--Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame

New York Times Notable Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Wall Street Journal--One of Five Best Artist Biographies "A nearly flawless account of a remarkable artist.... It is a compelling and accessible narrative for anyone even remotely interested in modern American art."--Michael Kammen, New York Times Book Review "Gail Levin has given us, with obvious erudition and admiration, Hopper the 'creative artist' and Hopper the reclusive, cranky, brilliantly thoughtful, impossibly egoistic, highly industrious man.... In this engaging instructive biography, we meet him and his wife Jo, learn of their emotionally intense time together, follow their careers, and, no small feat on the part of their biographer, are left with respect for those two, respect for what they separately and jointly accomplished--a tribute to them and the one who hands them over to us."--Robert Coles, Washington Post Book World "This biography is a masterpiece of its genre, magnificently well researched, scrupulous, exact, balanced, objective and providing cumulatively a real sense of daily life with Hopper and his wife, in the context of social, political, and artistic events of their time."--Bryan Robertson, Modern Painters "Few [late paintings] have the power of Hopper's Two Comedians (1966). The tremendous virtue of Gail Levin's 'intimate biography' is that it prepares us to feel that power."--Arthur Danto, The Nation "A definitive biography."--Robert Hughes, Time

"A monograph of paintings and films by Mike Henderson accompanying the artist's major retrospective exhibition "Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985"--

"Michael Schreyach's Totality more than fulfills the ambition of its title. The author delivers attentive readings of individual works alongside precise accounts of the technical and formal problems that Barnett Newman relentlessly defined and refined through his art. How can painting's capacity to represent sensation, thought, and feeling--and not merely to cause it in a beholder--be expressed in abstract form? Schreyach offers us, for the first time, a total picture of Newman's visually powerful answers to such questions."--Jennifer Ashton, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago "I can only be enthusiastic about a text like this; it demands of its reader to think along with the writer and with Barnett Newman. Schreyach's scholarly apparatus is impeccable, yet the touch can be light, and always flowing, intriguing, surprising. Newman would have appreciated the number of rather startling conclusions that Schreyach's attention to Newman's own nuances produces."--Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin

Featuring Ruth Asawa’s stunning looped-wire sculptures, this journal is a welcome reminder to find inspiration in the everyday object.The twentieth-century master Ruth Asawa is renowned for her hand-looped and tied-wire sculptures that explore the interplay of light and shadow. Asawa also produced an enormous body of works on paper, finding moments to weave her creative practice into the fabric of her daily life, depicting her California garden, her family, and her home. The delicate works featured in Asawa’s first Artist Journal beckon the inner artist to carve out time to look and create.

Featuring the vibrant and dynamic work of Yayoi Kusama, this journal is the perfect canvas for creative thought.The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic environments have captured the imaginations of millions of museum and gallery visitors around the world. Her quintessential polka dots, organic shapes, and optical environments that become hypnotic, merging concepts of flatness and depth, presence and absence, and beauty and the sublime. The paintings on the cover and endpapers of Kusama’s first Artist Journal provide the perfect motivation for any creative pursuit.

A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements  Although “mid-century modern” has evolved into a highly popular and ubiquitous architectural style, this term obscures the varied perspectives and approaches of its original practitioners. In Nothing Permanent, Todd Cronan displaces generalizations with a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970, uncovering the conflicting intentions that would go on to reshape the future of American domestic life.Focusing on four primary figures—R. M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames—Nothing Permanent demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture in California, rather than constituting a homogenous movement, was propelled by disparate approaches and aims. Exemplified by the twin pillars of Schindler and Neutra and their respective ideological factions, these two groups of architects represent opposing poles of architectural intentionality, embodying divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the extent to which architects could exercise control over the inhabitants of their structures.Looking past California modernism’s surface-level idealization in present-day style guides, home decor publications, films, and television shows, Nothing Permanent details the intellectual, aesthetic, and practical debates that lie at the roots of this complex architectural moment. Extracting this period from its diffusion into visual culture, Cronan argues that mid-century architecture in California raised questions about the meaning of architecture and design that remain urgent today.

ይህ መጽሐፍ የጥንቱን፣ የመካከለኛውን እና የቅርቡን የኢትዮጵያ ታሪክ የሚዳስስ ሲሆን፥ የበርካታ ኢትዮጵያውያን ነገሥታት፣ መሳፍንት፣ መኳንንት እና ገዦች፥ ብሎም በተለያየ የሥራ መስክ ተሰማርተው ላገራቸው አስተዋፆ ያደረጉ ግለሰቦችን የሕይወት ተሞክሮ አካቶ የያዘ ነው። ይህን መጽሐፍ የሚያነቡ ሰዎች በኢትዮጵያ ዙሪያ ጠለቅ ያለ ግንዛቤ እንደሚያገኙበት ተስፋ አደርጋለሁ። በውስጥ ያሉት ሐተታዎች እውቅና ባላቸው የታሪክ ምሁራን እና እማኝ ምስክሮች በተዘጋጁ መጽሐፍቶች ላይ ተመርኩዞ መሆኑንና፥ ዋቢዎቹም በውስጥ ገፆች እንዲሁም መጨረሻ ላይ > በሚል በዝርዝር መቅረባቸውን ለአንባቢ ማሳሰብ እወዳለሁ። This book details ancient, medieval and contemporary Abyssinian History along with the renowned Ethiopians throughout the time-line. By using credible sources, the book attempted to encompass the kilo-years - journey of the country. Regardless of its effort, I can't champion the document as a model of perfection; however, anyone who would like to learn the history of the oldest country in the horn of Africa and one of the primal civilizations of the world, this book highlighted eye- opening events extracted from distinguished historians' texts. The sizable file contains the images of contemporary Abyssinians; some art work of medieval Ethiopia and ancient minted coins of Axumite kings. In addition, the statue and royal palaces inserted in the document. I hope the reader will find the book very useful and enlightening.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance.Homes for unmarried men and women, or Ledigenheime, were built for nearly every powerful interest group in Germany-progressive, reactionary, and radical alike-from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1920s. Designed by both unknown craftsmen and renowned architects ranging from Peter Behrens to Bruno Taut, these homes fought unregimented lodging in overcrowded working-class dwellings while functioning as apparatuses of moral and social control. A means to societal reintegration, Ledigenheime effectively bridged the public-private divide and rewrote the rules of who was deserving of quality housing-pointing forward to the building programs of Weimar Berlin and Red Vienna, experimental housing in Soviet Russia, Feminist collectives, accommodations for postwar "guestworkers," and even housing for the elderly today.

A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraitureIn 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with the nation's founding promise of freedom and democracy for all. This book draws on portraiture and visual culture to provide fresh perspectives on this crucial yet underappreciated period in history. Taína Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay tell the story of 1898 by bringing together portraits of U.S. figures who favored overseas expansion, such as William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, with those of leading figures who resisted colonization, including Eugenio María de Hostos of Puerto Rico; José Martí of Cuba; Felipe Agoncillo of the Philippines; Padre Jose Bernardo Palomo of Guam; and Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawai'i. Throughout the book, Caragol and Lemay also look at landscapes, naval scenes, and ephemera. They consider works of art by important period artists Winslow Homer and Armando Menocal as well as contemporary artists such as Maia Cruz Palileo, Stephanie Syjuco, and Miguel Luciano. Paul A. Kramer's essay addresses the role of the Smithsonian Institution in supporting imperialism, and texts by Jorge Duany, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Kristin L. Hoganson, Healoha Johnston, and Neil Weare offer critical perspectives by experts with close personal or scholarly relations to the island regions. Beautifully illustrated, 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific challenges us to reconsider the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the annexation of Hawai'i while shedding needed light on the lasting impacts of U.S. imperialism. Published in association with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DCExhibition ScheduleNational Portrait Gallery, Washington, DCApril 28, 2023-February 25, 2024

"Emancipation critically interrogates the impact of sculpture in public life, centering around ideas of agency and emancipation in historical and contemporary expression. The fulcrum of the book will be the Amon Carter Museum of American Art's copy of John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze sculpture The Freedman (1863). Unlike conventional depictions of enslaved African Americans at this time, which showed them as powerless, this heroic figure has broken his chains. The catalogue begins with an introduction to Civil War-era works contextualizing The Freedman, then examines the work of six contemporary Black artists whose respective practices engage the mediums of sculpture and installation connected to themes of freedom or imprisonment, the long legacy of the Civil War in the United States, body, and personhood. Featuring the work of Sadie Barnette, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, as well as a reprinted short story by N.K. Jemisin, Emancipation brings contemporary issues of racial inequities, the legacy of war and conflict, and issues of freedom-or lack thereof-for Black Americans to the fore"--

When Seemab Zahra's Maternal Grandmother, Nani, died in 2021 due to COVID-19, it was challenging to process those emotions while in Canada and not being able to travel to Pakistan to pay her last respects. Around the same time, Seemab received news of being awarded the Pat The Dog Theatre Creation Micro-grant for Artists in Waterloo Region 2020. Seemab decided to create a project through which she could celebrate her late grandmother. And so the idea of Savoury Reminiscence was born. A recipe book that combines the writer's love for food photography and her Nani's love for cooking and sharing family recipes.Savoury Reminiscence is a recipe book that celebrates the writer, Seemab Zahra's cultural, culinary, and poetic roots. It is an insight into her South Asian heritage, traditions, attires, recipes, photography, her connections with the cities she has lived in, and her relationships with the women in her family, especially with her Nani.

This beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach. Savour iconic paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies, and discover less well-known artists, styles, and movements the world over - from Indigenous Australian art to the works of Ming-era China. And explore recurring themes, such as love and religion, and important genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art, along the way. Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique - such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalised society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints.Comprehensive, accessible, and lavishly illustrated throughout, Timelines of Art is an essential guide to the pantheon of world art, so dive straight into discover: - An overview of each movement, including the social and cultural background of the period, grounds the works of art in the spirit of their times.- Turning-point paintings that triggered or epitomised each artistic movement are identified and explained, against a backdrop of influences - the technical advances, admired techniques of an earlier artist, and changes in society that enabled new directions in art.- Glossary of technical terms and comprehensive index help make this an indispensable work of reference for any art-lover.Timelines of Art is the perfect art history book for students of art and/or history, proving ideal for families, schools and libraries and doubling up as a great gift for the art lover in your life.

A revisionist history of Duchamp's legacy and impact on modern art. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'. This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes and reveals that Duchamp's urinal in fact heralded the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger.

An adobe dwelling is a delight because all of its parts come together. The approach-the portal or the patio-has an appeal because the materials feel natural. The door welcomes one and the floor inside, the walls, the ceiling are compatible. The textures and materials make sense as expressions of a building that grew organically. Adobe Up Close invites you to take a good look at all the aspects of adobe buildings. There are so many variations of the components that create the recognizable New Mexican mystique. Adobe Up Close lets you see inside the houses you pass by as you walk the streets of Taos and Santa Fe. Learn how the indigenous roots, going back hundreds of years, have led to contemporary interpretation. Feel how tactile working with mud is. Feel the dirt under your fingernails. Feel how just the right amount of water makes the dirt malleable. You will love the result as generations have.

The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures

"With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights movement, envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades, however, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents. The Roots of Urban Renaissance demonstrates that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by unscrupulous developers or opportunistic outsiders. Rather, it grew from the neighborhood's grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others."--Back cover.