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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles

Tour Eiffel Nuit (French, Paperback): Claire Bechet, Ronald W. Kenyon Tour Eiffel Nuit (French, Paperback)
Claire Bechet, Ronald W. Kenyon
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Madrid on the Move - Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): Vanesa Rodriguez-Galindo Madrid on the Move - Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Vanesa Rodriguez-Galindo
R3,596 Discovery Miles 35 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. Rather than shifting the loci of modernity from Paris or London to Madrid, this book decentres the concept and explains the modern experience as part of a more fluid, global phenomenon. Meanings of the modern were not only dictated by linguistic authorities and urban technocrats; they were discussed, lived, and constructed on a daily basis. Cultural actors and audiences displayed an acute awareness of what being modern entailed and explored the links between the local and the global, two concepts and contexts that were being conceived and perceived as inseparable. -- .

The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era - Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present (Hardcover): Mark E Blum The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era - Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present (Hardcover)
Mark E Blum
R3,432 Discovery Miles 34 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
MIES VAN DER RHOE architetto (Italian, Paperback): Ermanno Corsaro MIES VAN DER RHOE architetto (Italian, Paperback)
Ermanno Corsaro
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art - Audacities of Color (Hardcover): LaNitra M. Berger Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art - Audacities of Color (Hardcover)
LaNitra M. Berger
R2,928 Discovery Miles 29 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.

Wei e Tr ume - ber die mediterrane Architektur (German, Paperback): Zoltan Magyar Wei e Tr ume - ber die mediterrane Architektur (German, Paperback)
Zoltan Magyar
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Modern - The Rehabilitation of the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris by h2o architectes (English, French, Hardcover):... Modern Modern - The Rehabilitation of the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris by h2o architectes (English, French, Hardcover)
H2o Architectes, Building Paris; Contributions by Fabrice Hergott, Anael Pigeat, Studio GGSV; Photographs by …
R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Palais de Tokyo, built for the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technology, is an icon of French Art Deco architecture. Located prominently on the northern bank of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, the vast complex today is a hotspot of modern and contemporary art in the French capital. Opened as part of the 1937 International Exhibition, the Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM) has always had its home in the eastern wing of Palais de Tokyo. After a major refurbishment directed by Paris-based h2o architectes, it was re-inaugurated in October 2019. This book documents the creation of the new MAM. Alongside brief essays and a conversation with h2o architectes founding partners Jean-Jacques Hubert and Antoine Santiard, it features plans and visualisations as well as historic photographs. The construction process is illustrated through a photo essay by artist Laetitia Badaut Haussmann and reportages by photographer Myr Muratet and architect-photographer Stephane Chalmeau. Text in English and French.

Modernism's Visible Hand - Architecture and Regulation in America (Hardcover): Michael Osman Modernism's Visible Hand - Architecture and Regulation in America (Hardcover)
Michael Osman
R3,020 R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Save R233 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of "room temperature"? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation-of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food-can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call "modern." Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation-including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers-became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation's unprecedented growth. Modernism's Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today.

Bauhaus - Art Portfolio (Hardcover): Pepin Van Roojen Bauhaus - Art Portfolio (Hardcover)
Pepin Van Roojen
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pepin Press Art Portfolios contain 8 high-quality art reproductions printed on 200 gsm watercolour paper or satin coated art paper. These papers are non-ageing, manufactured from chlorine-free pulp by FSC and PEFC certified mills. The prints are enclosed in hardback portfolio covers made of premium paperboard with inner end papers along with flaps for further protection. The portfolios have a high-quality cloth spine (made of rayon, a plant-based fiber) and a cotton ribbon closure. All images reproduced come from our own archives, except for the van Gogh and Monet volumes. In our selections we have sought to combine complimentary images, striking a balance between the familiar and those lesser known. Alongside traditionally famous images many uncommon but delightful drawings and prints can also be found.

Gaudi. La Obra Completa (Spanish, Hardcover): Rainer Zerbst Gaudi. La Obra Completa (Spanish, Hardcover)
Rainer Zerbst
R2,188 R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Save R391 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
OMA (German, Hardcover): Sandra Hofmeister OMA (German, Hardcover)
Sandra Hofmeister
R1,352 R1,245 Discovery Miles 12 450 Save R107 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture - gehoert zu den weltweit einflussreichsten Think Tanks im Bereich Architektur und Stadtplanung. Rem Koolhaas, Grundungsvater und Pritzker-Preistrager, steht mit seiner intellektuellen Herangehensweise an Architektur fur weitaus mehr als den globalen Star-Architekten: Die Architektur bei OMA entsteht in enger Zusammenarbeit mit AMO, dem dazugehoerigen und doch eigenstandige Design- und Forschungsstudio. Hier wie dort heisst es: Architektur weiterdenken, sich von Konventionen loesen, neue Moeglichkeiten entdecken. Der Weg ist das Ziel, die Architektur ein nie endender Prozess dauernd wechselnder Bedingungen und Perspektiven. Diese Monografie uber OMA zeigt beeindruckende Projekte aus vielen Jahren des Architekturschaffens, sie beschreibt Ideen, Techniken und Prozesse und zeigt vor allem eines: viele Baudetails.

Mexico 1968, una hazana inolvidable - Entrevista con el Arquitecto Pedro Ramirez Vazquez (Spanish, Paperback): Carlos Calderon... Mexico 1968, una hazana inolvidable - Entrevista con el Arquitecto Pedro Ramirez Vazquez (Spanish, Paperback)
Carlos Calderon Cardoso
R185 Discovery Miles 1 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Martino Bassi Architetto - I Dispareri in Materia d'Architettura, Et Perspettiva. Con Pareri Di Eccellenti, Et Famosi... Martino Bassi Architetto - I Dispareri in Materia d'Architettura, Et Perspettiva. Con Pareri Di Eccellenti, Et Famosi Architetti, Che Li Risolvono (Italian, Paperback)
Francesco Repishti
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Scuola Dei Santi Quattro Coronati. Architetti, Scultori E Lapicidi del Duomo Di Milano (1451-1786) (Italian, Paperback):... La Scuola Dei Santi Quattro Coronati. Architetti, Scultori E Lapicidi del Duomo Di Milano (1451-1786) (Italian, Paperback)
Francesco Repishti
R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1917 - cent jaroj, cent mesa?oj - Historiografiaj pozicioj pril la Oktobra Revolucio (Esperanto, Paperback): Tomaso Kra?so,... 1917 - cent jaroj, cent mesaĝoj - Historiografiaj pozicioj pril la Oktobra Revolucio (Esperanto, Paperback)
Tomaso Kraŭso, Tamas Krausz; Translated by Johano Petik
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Neues Bauen Im Berliner Sudwesten - Gross-Berlin Und Die Folgen Fur Steglitz Und Zehlendorf (German, Hardcover): Harald... Neues Bauen Im Berliner Sudwesten - Gross-Berlin Und Die Folgen Fur Steglitz Und Zehlendorf (German, Hardcover)
Harald Bodenschatz, Celina Kress, Matthias Oloew, Frank Rattay, Heike Stange; Photographs by …
R565 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R66 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Charles Percier (French, Paperback): Desire Raoul-Rochette Charles Percier (French, Paperback)
Desire Raoul-Rochette
R223 Discovery Miles 2 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Chapelle de la Transfiguration, Patrimoine Du XX (French, Paperback): Alice Mattio, Florence Sarano, Fr Pekle La Chapelle de la Transfiguration, Patrimoine Du XX (French, Paperback)
Alice Mattio, Florence Sarano, Fr Pekle
R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Susie Cooper (Paperback): Alan Marshall Susie Cooper (Paperback)
Alan Marshall
R270 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A full-colour illustrated biography of the life of Susie Cooper and her ceramic company's output. During her sixty-five-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the 'Jazz Age' through delicate wash banding and aerograph techniques to sophisticated lithographic transfer printing on both earthenware and bone china. Cooper not only led the charge of gifted female designers in the male-dominated Potteries but also pioneered the role of women in factory management. Alan Marshall here charts her progress from the creation of patterns for Gray's Pottery in the 1920s, to running her own Susie Cooper Productions from the 1930s to the 1950s, and designing for Wedgwood from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Art Deco Masterpieces of Art (Hardcover, New edition): Janet Tyson Art Deco Masterpieces of Art (Hardcover, New edition)
Janet Tyson 1
R432 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R91 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Erte, Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco are also included.

The Professional Status of Women in Architecture - An Analytical Approach on Female Architects in the United States (1970-2016)... The Professional Status of Women in Architecture - An Analytical Approach on Female Architects in the United States (1970-2016) (Persian, Paperback)
Nastaran Razavi, Somayeh Ebrahimi
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charles Olson and American Modernism - The Practice of the Self (Hardcover): Mark Byers Charles Olson and American Modernism - The Practice of the Self (Hardcover)
Mark Byers
R3,159 Discovery Miles 31 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) at the centre of the early post-war American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson's work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson's published and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early post-war American modernism. The development of Olson's work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical individual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. Drawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage, Charles Olson and American Modernism offers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of the emergence of post-war American modernism.

Bauhaus Masterworks - New World View (Hardcover, New edition): Michael Robinson Bauhaus Masterworks - New World View (Hardcover, New edition)
Michael Robinson
R708 R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Save R148 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bauhaus inherited the mantle of beauty and craftsmanship from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th Century but was founded on geometric principles, associated with Art Deco and firmly rooted in the challenge of modern production methods. Kandinsky, Klee, Franz Marc and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy taught at the Bauhaus school - created by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in the early 1930s - which influenced a wide range of design, from buildings to typography, furniture and painted forms. This luxurious new book explores the origins and extensive influence on the contemporary art and architecture.

Pri la mankoj de la partilaboro kaj la disponoj por likvidi la trockistajn kaj ceterajn falslangulojn. - Refera?o kaj finparolo... Pri la mankoj de la partilaboro kaj la disponoj por likvidi la trockistajn kaj ceterajn falslangulojn. - Referaĵo kaj finparolo en la plenkunsido de la CK de la VKP(b), la 3-an kaj 5-an de marto 1937 (Esperanto, Paperback)
Jozefo V Stalino; Translated by Vilhelmo Lutermano; Contributions by Jurij Finkel
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mobility of Modernism - Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America (Paperback): Harper Montgomery The Mobility of Modernism - Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America (Paperback)
Harper Montgomery
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Merida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today-the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.

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