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

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Hardcover): Amy E. Elkins Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Hardcover)
Amy E. Elkins
R2,765 Discovery Miles 27 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing. In evocative readings of literary works from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, this book expands our sense of transartistic modernist scholarship to encompass process-oriented and medium-specific analyses of textile arts, digital design, collage, photography, painting, and sculpture in literary culture. By integrating these craft practices into the book's enlightening archive, Elkins's theoretical argument extends a reading of craft metaphors into the material present. Crafting Feminism demonstrates how writers have engaged with handiwork across generations and have undertaken the crafting of a new modernity, one that is queer and feminist-threaded, messy, shattered, cut-up, pasted together, preserved, repaired, reflected, and spun out. An avant-garde work of scholarship, this book interweaves queer research methods and interdisciplinary rigor with a series of surprising archival discoveries. Making visible the collaborative, creative features of craft, Elkins captivates readers with generous illustrations and a series of "Techne" interchapters-interludes between longer chapters, which powerfully convey the symbiosis between feminist theory and method, and detail the network of archival influences that underpin this volume's hybrid approach. Foregrounding the work of decentering patriarchal and Eurocentric legacies of artistic authority, Elkins champions the diverse, intergenerational history of craft as a way to reposition intersectional makers at the heart of literary culture. An original and compelling study, Crafting Feminism breaks new ground in modernist and visual studies, digital humanities, and feminist, queer, and critical race theory.

Making Dystopia - The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (Paperback): James Stevens Curl Making Dystopia - The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (Paperback)
James Stevens Curl
R948 R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Save R139 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.

Orozco's American Epic - Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Hardcover): Mary K Coffey Orozco's American Epic - Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Hardcover)
Mary K Coffey
R2,500 Discovery Miles 25 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.

The Forger's Spell - A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest (Paperback): Edward Dolnick The Forger's Spell - A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest (Paperback)
Edward Dolnick
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of three men and an extraordinary deception: the revered artist Johannes Vermeer; the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him years later; and the con man's mark, Hermann Goering, the fanatical art collector and one of Nazi Germany's most reviled leaders.

Design: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New): John Heskett Design: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, New)
John Heskett
R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration. This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett also reveals how simple objects, such as a toothpick, can have their design modified to suit the specific cultural behaviour in different countries. There are also fascinating insights into how major companies such as Nokia, Ford, and Sony approach design. Finally, the author gives us an exciting vision of what design can offer us in the future, showing in particular how it can humanize new technology. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Bauhaus Dessau - Architecture-Design-Concept (English, German, Hardcover, 1., Aufl.): Kirsten Baumann Bauhaus Dessau - Architecture-Design-Concept (English, German, Hardcover, 1., Aufl.)
Kirsten Baumann
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socialist use and then half a century's worth of restoration, it is now a UNESCO world cultural-heritage site, attracting some 80,000 visitors a year who seek the roots of twentieth century Modernism. This is the first book of photographs to document Gropius's masterpiece since its renovation, and it features more than 110 black-and-white images of the building and its wide range of architectural and artistic textures. It illustrates its history, its architectural elements and the interior design created for it by the Bauhaus artists, as well as its functions then and since: "Bauhaus Dessau" describes the work carried out in the former workshops and their most important products. For its original denizens--and again, at last, for those who visit today--the architecture, design and philosophy of the Bauhaus itself are inseparably connected to one another.

Bauhaus Bodies - Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School (Paperback): Elizabeth Otto,... Bauhaus Bodies - Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School (Paperback)
Elizabeth Otto, Patrick Roessler
R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular. In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond.

A Modern Way to Live - 5 Design Principles from The Modern House (Hardcover): Matt Gibberd A Modern Way to Live - 5 Design Principles from The Modern House (Hardcover)
Matt Gibberd
R843 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R117 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Beautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this is the ultimate Christmas gift for home design enthusiasts - from cultural phenomenon THE MODERN HOUSE! 'A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy' Guardian In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more thoughtfully and beautifully at home. As The Modern House grew, Matt and Albert came to realise that the most successful homes they encountered - from cleverly conceived studio flats to listed architectural masterpieces - had been designed with attention to the same timeless principles: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Decoration. In this lavishly illustrated book, Matt tells the stories of these remarkable living spaces and their equally remarkable owners, and demonstrates how the five principles can be applied to your own space in ways both large and small. Revolutionary in its simplicity, and full of elegance, humour and joy, this book will inspire you to find happiness in the place you call home. PRAISE FOR THE MODERN HOUSE: 'One of the best things in the world' GQ 'The Modern House transformed our search for the perfect home' Financial Times 'Nowhere has mastered the art of showing off the most desirable homes for both buyers and casual browsers alike than The Modern House' Vogue

Licht, Luft, Sonne, Hygiene (German, Paperback): Franz Hauner Licht, Luft, Sonne, Hygiene (German, Paperback)
Franz Hauner
R949 R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Save R121 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Victory of the New Building Style (Paperback): Walter Curt Behrendt Victory of the New Building Style (Paperback)
Walter Curt Behrendt; Introduction by Detlef Mertins; Translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund and led an articulate and well-orchestrated campaign in support of the Modern Movement. A friend and colleague of Lewis Mumford, he immigrated in 1934 to the United States where he taught courses on city planning and housing at Dartmouth College and the University of Buffalo.
This book--Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building--presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Here, Behrendt calls for architects to return to basic geometries and to articulate explicitly the new social and economic realities. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public.

New Architecture - Photo Album (Paperback): Axel Donovan New Architecture - Photo Album (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Housing Estates in the Berlin Modern Style - UNESCO World Heritage Site (Paperback, 2nd edition): Markus Jager Housing Estates in the Berlin Modern Style - UNESCO World Heritage Site (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Markus Jager; Edited by Joerg Haspel, Annemarie Jaeggi
R213 Discovery Miles 2 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Berlin has a special architectural treasure: six residential estates in the Modern Style, built between 1913 and 1932, are remarkable both for their high international importance and their good state of preservation. In July 2008 they were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Digital Architecture - More than 100 photos (Paperback): Axel Donovan Digital Architecture - More than 100 photos (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fantasy Architecture - Perfect if you love Architecture (Paperback): Axel Donovan Fantasy Architecture - Perfect if you love Architecture (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brutalist Sydney Map (Sheet map, folded): Glenn Harper Brutalist Sydney Map (Sheet map, folded)
Glenn Harper; Photographs by Glenn Harper; Series edited by Derek Lamberton
R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From a Cause to a Style - Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City (Hardcover): Nathan Glazer From a Cause to a Style - Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City (Hardcover)
Nathan Glazer
R684 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R101 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"I have learned profoundly from Nathan Glazer's cultural perspectives and deep insights, engaging the extraordinary and the ordinary. "From a Cause to a Style" is a work I consider most relevant and significant for our time via its all-encompassing range and its richness of detail involving multiple urban, architectural, technical, and social issues-recent, current, and future."--Robert Venturi, architect and author

"This collection is a reminder that in addition to being an urban sociologist, an astute commentator on social issues, and a public intellectual, Nathan Glazer is an insightful and provocative architecture critic."--Witold Rybczynski, author of "Home: A Short History of an Idea"

"Nathan Glazer stands in the grand but fragile American tradition of the humanist architectural critic. He is also one of our great complexifiers. Whether he is writing about cities, streets, public spaces, or particular buildings, he notices things that seem to escape the attention of the professional--though not always of the general public. To read him is to become aware of one's own architectural experience, and to begin thinking hard about how it might be improved."--Mark Lilla, University of Chicago

"This is a remarkable collection of essays that only Nathan Glazer could write. It sums up and partly explains the inability of contemporary architecture to deal with the problems of modern urbanism and to address many practical issues of building. As Glazer points out, an architectural tradition that identified itself by its capacity to focus the issues of functionalism has ended up by almost totally ignoring them."--Robert Gutman, Lecturer in Architecture, Princeton University

American Architecture - Inspiration leaps (Paperback): Axel Donovan American Architecture - Inspiration leaps (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Architecture School - Perfect if you love Architecture (Paperback): Axel Donovan Architecture School - Perfect if you love Architecture (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Clean Architecture - Over 100 wonderful pictures (Paperback): Axel Donovan Clean Architecture - Over 100 wonderful pictures (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,298 R1,062 Discovery Miles 10 620 Save R236 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brutalist Boston Map - Guide to Brutalist Architecture in Boston Area (Paperback): Chris Grimley, Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo Brutalist Boston Map - Guide to Brutalist Architecture in Boston Area (Paperback)
Chris Grimley, Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo; Edited by (associates) Rebecca Rice
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nonaligned Modernism - Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (Paperback): Bojana Videkanic Nonaligned Modernism - Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (Paperback)
Bojana Videkanic
R1,180 R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Save R134 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement. This country's principles and its continued battles, fought against all odds, provided the basis for dynamic and exceptional forms of art. Drawing on archival materials, postcolonial theory, and Eastern European socialist studies, Nonaligned Modernism chronicles the emergence of late modernist artistic practices in Yugoslavia from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1980s. Situating Yugoslav modernism within postcolonial artistic movements of the twentieth century, Bojana Videkanic explores how cultural workers collaborated with others from the Global South to create alternative artistic and cultural networks that countered Western hegemony. Videkanic focuses primarily on art exhibitions along with examples of international cultural exchange to demonstrate that nonaligned art wove together politics and aesthetics, and indigenous, Western, and global influences. An interdisciplinary book, Nonaligned Modernism highlights Yugoslavia's key role in the creation of a global modernist ethos and international postcolonial culture.

Art Critique - Selected Writings of K. B. Goel (Hardcover): Shruti Parthasarathy, Geeta Kapur Art Critique - Selected Writings of K. B. Goel (Hardcover)
Shruti Parthasarathy, Geeta Kapur
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The mapping of the history and trajectory of Indian modern art is a project begun only in recent years and included in it is the recovery of lesser known names and moments from under the shadow of a few dominant ones. Within it, its conscience keeper-art criticism-has borne greater neglect and obscurity. One such voice, heard with considerable attention in its time, was that of the Delhi-based art critic K. B. Goel (1930-2018). Active from the late 1950s to the '90s, his career broadly coincided with the modernist period. Active mainly as a reviewer, Goel also wrote lengthy reflective assessments, and his art writings stand out for an interpretative and often theory-based approach that is quite unique to Indian art criticism. Writing on some of the most definitive artists, movements, and styles of twentieth-century Indian art, he bears the distinction of successfully transitioning from his modernist training to theorize on the earliest postmodern developments in Indian art, such as installation art. This annotated volume seeks to bring together Goel's major writings, accompanied by a critical introduction that draws attention to his frameworks, concerns, and methodologies. It has a foreword by the eminent art critic Geeta Kapur.

Orozco's American Epic - Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Paperback): Mary K Coffey Orozco's American Epic - Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Paperback)
Mary K Coffey
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.

Wright and New York - The Making of America's Architect (Hardcover): Anthony Alofsin Wright and New York - The Making of America's Architect (Hardcover)
Anthony Alofsin
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an "unlivable prison" even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright's work in the desert and in the "organic architecture" he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright's life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright's life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Christopher Butler Modernism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Christopher Butler
R303 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R31 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end--or at least a story? In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Butler provides a coherent account of Modernism across various aesthetic and cultural fields. Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life have been influenced by its aesthetic legacy. Butler considers several aspects of modernism, including some classic modernist works, movements and notions of the avant garde, and the idea of "progress" in art. Finally, Butler sheds light on modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and the political dimensions of modernism as a whole.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

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