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

Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design (Hardcover): Sabine Wieber Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design (Hardcover)
Sabine Wieber
R3,017 Discovery Miles 30 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jugendstil, that is Germany's distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, architecture and design. Recent exhibitions and publications across the world explored Jugendstil's key protagonists and artistic centres to firmly anchor their activities within the trajectories of German modernism. Women, however, continue to be largely absent from these revisionist accounts. Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design argues that women in fact actively participated in the cultural and socio-economic exchanges that generated German design responses to European modernity. By drawing on previously unpublished archival material and a series of original case studies including Elsa Bruckmann's Munich salon, the Photo Studio Elvira and the Debschitz School, the book explores women's important contributions to modern German culture as collectors, consumers, critics, designers, educators, and patrons. This book offers a new interpretation of this vibrant period by considering diverse manifestations of historical female agency that pushed against historically entrenched conventions and gender roles. The book's rigorous approach reshapes Jugendstil historiography by positing women's lived experiences against dominant ideologies that emerged at this precise moment. In short, the book advocates women as an integral part of the emergence, dissemination and reception of Jugendstil and questions the deeply gendered histories of this key period in modern art, architecture and design.

Contemporary Japanese Architecture - The visual arts of Architecture (Paperback): Axel Donovan Contemporary Japanese Architecture - The visual arts of Architecture (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
European Architecture - Positive energy (Paperback): Axel Donovan European Architecture - Positive energy (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) 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
R2,844 Discovery Miles 28 440 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Ting Yin Yung (bilingual edition) - Catalogue raisonne, Oil Paintings (Hardcover): The Li Ching Cultural and Educational... Ting Yin Yung (bilingual edition) - Catalogue raisonne, Oil Paintings (Hardcover)
The Li Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation; Text written by Rita Wong
R2,104 Discovery Miles 21 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For a long time only slightly noticed, modernist movements in Chinese art history are gaining more and more recognition. One of its key fi gures is Ting Yin Yung, whose art is essential to understanding Western-style art in China. Ting was one of the fi rst to turn to his own cultural history to inform the Western-style paintings he and others aspired to master, primarily to breathe life into what many considered a stagnant art tradition. It is difficult to gauge the full extent of Ting's impact and influence on modern and contemporary Chinese art, but this comprehensive catalogue raisonne of his oil paintings brings us in a position to see how his vision, through both his art and his teachings, inspired and nurtured many.

The Art of Football - The Early Game in the Golden Age of Illustration (Hardcover): Michael Oriard The Art of Football - The Early Game in the Golden Age of Illustration (Hardcover)
Michael Oriard
R1,060 R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Save R87 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Art of Football is a singular look at early college football art and illustrations. This collection contains more than two hundred images, many rare or previously unpublished, from a variety of sources, including artists Winslow Homer, Edward Penfield, J. C. Leyendecker, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson, George Bellows, and many others. Along with the rich art that captured the essence of football during its early period, Michael Oriard provides a historical context for the images and for football during this period, showing that from the beginning it was perceived more as a test of courage and training in manliness than simply an athletic endeavor. Oriard's analysis shows how these early artists had to work out for themselves-and for readers-what in the new game should be highlighted and how it should appear on the page or canvas. The Art of Football takes modern readers back to the day when players themselves were new to the sport, and illustrators had to show the public what the new game of football was. Oriard demonstrates how artists focused on football's dual nature as a grueling sport to be played and as a social event and spectacle to be watched. Through its illustrations and words The Art of Football gives readers an engaging look at the earliest depictions of the game and the origins of the United States as a football nation.

Toward a New Theory of Architecture - The First Goetheanum in Pictures (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Toward a New Theory of Architecture - The First Goetheanum in Pictures (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Architecture in monochrome - An illustrated book (Paperback): Axel Donovan Architecture in monochrome - An illustrated book (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner... 2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner 2 Years Agenda (Paperback)
James Howard
R353 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adventure in Art (Hardcover): Lucy Carrington Wertheim Adventure in Art (Hardcover)
Lucy Carrington Wertheim; Contributions by Towner Gallery
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1930 pioneering female gallerist Lucy Wertheim opened The Wertheim Gallery in London. Wertheim challenged the established art scene conventions; she was a woman without formal art training, driven by intuition and a belief that young British artists should have the same opportunities as their European counterparts. Adventure in Art is Lucy's 1947 autobiography, telling the story of her career in the British Modernist era. Republished by Unicorn to coincide with the forthcoming Towner Eastbourne exhibition, A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim & Reuniting the Twenties Group (Summer 2022), this book brings to a contemporary audience the trials and tribulations of a key participant in the male-dominated art world in the first half of the twentieth century. Lucy Wertheim's discerning eye and business acumen helped to propel big names such as Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Cedric Morris, Henry Moore and Frances Hodgkins into the mainstream. With three commissioned essays - the first by Frances Spalding (Lucy Wertheim - Her Gallery in Context); the second by Ariane Banks (Lucy Wertheim - A Pioneering Woman and Her Contemporaries); the third by Towner's Collections & Exhibitions Curator, Karen Taylor (Lucy Wertheim - Her 'Forty-One Year Experiment' [1930-71]) - this new edition not only brings Lucy Carrington Wertheim's words and deeds back into our conscience, but it also publishes over 70 artworks, many of which are featured in the Towner exhibition, as well as newly photographed ephemera from the Estate's extensive archive. Together, this exhibition and book will significantly reset the accepted narrative, and shine a light on a neglected corner of mid-twentieth century art history.

French Architecture - Architecture photo album (Paperback): Axel Donovan French Architecture - Architecture photo album (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bauhaus. Updated Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): Magdalena Droste Bauhaus. Updated Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Magdalena Droste 1
R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, sculpture to ceramics. This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 550 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Lilly Reich.

Nonaligned Modernism - Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (Paperback): Bojana Videkanic Nonaligned Modernism - Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985 (Paperback)
Bojana Videkanic
R1,158 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R131 (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.

Architecture in the 20th century - The first illustrated book (Paperback): Axel Donovan Architecture in the 20th century - The first illustrated book (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Design rehearsals - Conversations about Bauhaus lessons (Paperback): Katja Klaus, Regina Bittner Design rehearsals - Conversations about Bauhaus lessons (Paperback)
Katja Klaus, Regina Bittner; Designed by Felix Salut
R991 R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Save R151 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Architecture of the future - New book on creativity (Paperback): Axel Donovan Architecture of the future - New book on creativity (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art and Architecture in Italy - Perfect for architecture lovers (Paperback): Axel Donovan Art and Architecture in Italy - Perfect for architecture lovers (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner... 2022-2023 Monthly Planner - 24 Months Calendar Calendar with Holidays 2 Years Daily Planner Appointment Calendar Weekly Planner 2 Years Agenda (Paperback)
James Howard
R353 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
We, the House (Paperback): Warren Ashworth, Susan Kander We, the House (Paperback)
Warren Ashworth, Susan Kander
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Journal of Architecture - More than 100 photos (Paperback): Axel Donovan Journal of Architecture - More than 100 photos (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Urban Architecture - Encourage you curiosity (Paperback): Axel Donovan Urban Architecture - Encourage you curiosity (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lime - Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands (Paperback): Boyd C Pratt Lime - Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands (Paperback)
Boyd C Pratt
R352 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R28 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Story of Becoming Piney Flats (Paperback): Robert Sorrell The Story of Becoming Piney Flats (Paperback)
Robert Sorrell
R507 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Hunter Drohojowska-Philp,... Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Owen Edwards, Philip J. Ethington, Peter Loughrey; Photographs by Julius Shulman
R7,083 Discovery Miles 70 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The photography of Julius Shulman (1910-2009) transported a West Coast dream around the world. His images of midcentury Southern Californian architecture captured not only the distinctive structural, functional, and design elements of a building but also the context of its surroundings and inhabitants in a holistic, evocative sense of lifestyle. Over time, Shulman's talents would take him around the world, steadily crafting one of the most compelling chronologies of modern architecture. Offering an immense cultural cache for an even lower price, this fresh edition of TASCHEN's Modernism Rediscovered features over 400 architectural treasures from the Shulman archives. Each project and photograph was personally selected from over 260,000 photographs by publisher Benedikt Taschen, who enjoyed a close relationship with Shulman and his work since first publishing Julius Shulman: Architecture and Its Photography (1998). Documenting the reach of modernist aesthetics, the projects span not only the West Coast but also the rest of the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, and Hong Kong, all captured with Shulman's characteristic understanding of space and situation, as well as his brilliant and intuitive sense of composition. The pictures are contextualized with an introduction by photography critic Owen Edwards, an extensive biography by University of Southern California historian Philip J. Ethington, captions on decorative elements by Los Angeles Modern Auctions founder Peter Loughrey, and biographies of key architects. In addition, the book includes personal reflections from Shulman himself, with an oral history and portrait of the period crafted via months of interviews with arts writer Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.

Japanese Architecture - Discover every single photo (Paperback): Axel Donovan Japanese Architecture - Discover every single photo (Paperback)
Axel Donovan
R1,233 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R220 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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