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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle
Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic
jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias.
They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They
arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the
republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy
but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000
acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In
2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory,
defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail
that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich
eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of
approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology,
insurrectionary writings and radical art history. Published in
collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
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Florida's Uplands
(Paperback)
Ellie Whitney, D. Bruce Means, Anne Rudloe
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R610
R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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Taken from the earlier book "Priceless Florida" (and modified for a
stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of
Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies,
interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach
dunes. Introduces readers to the trees and plants, insects,
mammals, reptiles, and other species that live in Florida's unique
uplands ecosystem.
This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly
illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily
encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on
British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish, to
peculiar sea-potatoes and sea lemons. Together, these characterful
critters paint a colourful picture of life between the tides:
starfish that, upon losing an arm, can grow a new one; baby sharks
hatching from their fancifully named 'mermaid' purses'; ethereal
moon jellyfish pulsating in the current and, on some seabeds, even
coral. Beachcombing, overturning a boulder or simply parting the
strands of seaweed in a rock pool offer a glimpse into a thriving
underwater world of curious creatures. Inspired by the Oxford
University of Natural History's exceptionally rich zoology
collections, which contain millions of specimens amassed from
centuries of expeditions, this book tells the story of life on the
seashore.
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Hawaii 2- Maui
(Hardcover)
Tp Prince; Photographs by Daniel Sekarski, Nicole Sekarski-Hunkeler
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R1,675
Discovery Miles 16 750
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