The Culture Factory. Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum, Paperback - Richard J. Williams

The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum examines museum design using international examples from Western Europe, China, B...

DescriptionMoscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period...

Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese government's broad policy to ensure the traditions and esthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as...

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will subst...

From its storied invention in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith as a recreational activity for "incorrigible" youth, to its current multibillion-dollar in...

Reducere. In 1927, the Chicago Art Institute presented the first major museum exhibition of art by African Americans. Designed to demonstrate the artists' ab...

How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studiesReconstructions: Architecture and Blacknes...

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

Reducere. Seattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were frequent visitors to New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s when they collabora...

DescriptionHow psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.Beginning with ...

The iconoclastic critic of modern architecture and mass culture, Reyner Banham.Illustrations: 55 illustrations

Reducere. Museum of Stones looks at the various ways artists from across the world, and from different civilizations and cultures, have used rock and stone i...

This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have and continue to influence the evolution of the urban waterfront as seen th...

DescriptionThe Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book ...

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and fille...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521-1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with ...

DescriptionElaborate costumes, intricate patterns, and striking figural forms fill the work of Yinka Shonibare, a world-renowned artist who has roo...

Reducere. Charlotte explores the art world with her parents, and gets inspired to become an artist herself Take a trip to the art museum as you discover shap...

The Economic Crisis has refocused attention on the central nature of the real economy. Industry is once more seen as an opportunity for the future.

This groundbreaking book explores why and how to encourage physical and sensory engagement with works of art. An essential resource for museum prof...

Publisher: Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoAuthor(s): Kumja Paik KimIllustration(s): full-color illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dim...

Reducere. J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies int...

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museum...

How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professi...

Reducere. In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as ar...

Reducere. Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back s...

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and ...

Publisher: Bristol Museum & Art GalleryAuthor(s): Bristol Museum & Art GalleryIllustration(s): 150 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 276Pu...

This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington...

Publisher: Primary InformationNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 298 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Mahmoo...

This unique book offers guidance for Contemporary Art practices in dialogue with history, story, memory and tradition.Publisher: Taylor & Francis L...

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophis...

Contributor(s): Author: Marjorie CaygillThis is a 'must-have' celebration of the highlights from the British Museum's world-famous collections.The ...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the vitality of contemporary Pacific Northwest Coast art by showcasing a selection of objects from the Bu...

WALKSFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for anim...

Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of wha...

Presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term c...

FLEXIBILITY AND WEIGHTFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator's Survival Kit is the essent...

Reducere. ContentEarly Christian and Medieval Rome looks at the fascinating art and architecture in Rome dating from between about 300 and 1300. In the fourt...

The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer cu...

The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century. Published to coincide ...

This paperback edition of our bestseller analyses the complex aspects of sustainable architecture and its sociological, environmental and economic ...

RUNS, JUMPS AND SKIPSFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator's Survival Kit is the essenti...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 211 x 272 x 20Cover type: Pap...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum St LouisAuthor(s): Wassan Al-KhudhairiNumber of pages: 90Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 247 x 216 x 10Cover t...