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

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 (Hardcover): Lars Muller Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 (Hardcover)
Lars Muller; Text written by Astrid Bahr
R2,019 R1,423 Discovery Miles 14 230 Save R596 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Bauhaus Journal, now published in this gorgeous facsimile, is the ultimate testimony to the school's diversity and impact One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, it's time to revisit Bauhaus, the school's journal, as a crucial testimony of this iconic moment in the history of modern art. This gorgeously produced, slipcased, 14-volume publication features facsimiles of individual issues of the journal, as well as a commentary booklet including an overview of the content, English translations of all texts and a scholarly essay that places the journal in its historical context. Even during its existence, the influence of the Bauhaus school extended well beyond the borders of Europe, and its practitioners played a formative role in all areas of art, design and architecture. The school's international reach and impact is particularly evident in its journal. Bauhaus Journal was published periodically under the direction of Walter Gropius and L szl Moholy-Nagy, among others, from 1926 to 1931. In its pages, the most important voices of the movement were heard: Bauhaus masters and artists associated with the school such as Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and many more. The centenary of the Bauhaus provides an ideal opportunity to reassess this history, to consider the ideals of the school and its protagonists through this graphically innovative publication.

On The Trail Of Lyman Dillon (Hardcover): Douglas J Monk On The Trail Of Lyman Dillon (Hardcover)
Douglas J Monk
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Clarity of Hindsight - The Words and Deeds of the Era (Hardcover): Cap Parlier The Clarity of Hindsight - The Words and Deeds of the Era (Hardcover)
Cap Parlier
R1,223 R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Save R170 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secret History of Liverpool Cathedral - What was the mysterious reason for the radical revision of 1910 when the building... The Secret History of Liverpool Cathedral - What was the mysterious reason for the radical revision of 1910 when the building lost two towers? (Paperback)
Geoffrey Johnson
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Design and Modernity in Asia - National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990 (Hardcover): Yunah Lee, Megha Rajguru Design and Modernity in Asia - National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990 (Hardcover)
Yunah Lee, Megha Rajguru
R2,929 Discovery Miles 29 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs for modern living. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies, each essay illuminates commonalities and particularities of the trajectories of Modernism and notions of modernity, their translation and manifestation in life across Asia through design. Authors address everyday negotiations and experiences of being modern by studying exhibitions, architecture, modern interiors, printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and transnational networks of modern designers. They examine processes of exchange between people, institutions and with governments, in and across Asia, as well as with the USA and countries in Western Europe. This book highlights the ways in which the production and discourses of modern design were underscored by economic advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic debates on modern design. Critically exploring design for modern living in Asia, this book offers fresh perspectives on Modernism to students and scholars.

Threads of The War, Volume II - Personal Truth-Inspired Flash-Fiction of The 20th Century's War (Paperback): Jeremy Robert... Threads of The War, Volume II - Personal Truth-Inspired Flash-Fiction of The 20th Century's War (Paperback)
Jeremy Robert Strozer
R326 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R52 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
White City Tel Aviv (Paperback): Claudia Stein White City Tel Aviv (Paperback)
Claudia Stein
R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback): Adina Hoffman Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback)
Adina Hoffman
R571 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R85 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Introducing Modernism - A Graphic Guide (Paperback): Chris Rodrigues Introducing Modernism - A Graphic Guide (Paperback)
Chris Rodrigues; Illustrated by Chris Garratt 1
R271 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? Is Modernism over now? Chris Rodriguez and Chris Garratt's brilliant graphic guide is a brilliant exploration of the last century's most thrilling artistic work - and what it's really all about.

Christ & St. Luke's - Norfolk's Landmark Church (Hardcover): Sigur E. Whitaker Christ & St. Luke's - Norfolk's Landmark Church (Hardcover)
Sigur E. Whitaker; Contributions by Elizabeth M. McClure
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of New Brighton Tower (Hardcover): Roy Dutton The History of New Brighton Tower (Hardcover)
Roy Dutton
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Timberline Lodge (Hardcover): Sarah Baker Munro Timberline Lodge (Hardcover)
Sarah Baker Munro
R822 R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Save R146 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album (Hardcover): Xanti Schawinsky Xanti Schawinsky - The Album (Hardcover)
Xanti Schawinsky; Torsten Blume; Edited by Daniel Schawinsky, Lionel Bovier
R1,787 Discovery Miles 17 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Henry Dozier - Peripatetic Architect of Colorado and the West (Paperback): Charles Brantigan Henry Dozier - Peripatetic Architect of Colorado and the West (Paperback)
Charles Brantigan
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Unlikely Hero - A Father's Struggle to Raise His Son in the Bronx During the Great Depression and the Golden Age of... An Unlikely Hero - A Father's Struggle to Raise His Son in the Bronx During the Great Depression and the Golden Age of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comic Books, Stickball, Baseball, and Prize Fights (Paperback)
Steve Zimmerman
R486 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Works for Six Architects - Explorations around Invisible Links (Paperback): Gian Luca Brunetti Six Works for Six Architects - Explorations around Invisible Links (Paperback)
Gian Luca Brunetti
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales of a Century-Old Courthouse - New Madrid County, Missouri (Paperback): Mary Sue Anton Tales of a Century-Old Courthouse - New Madrid County, Missouri (Paperback)
Mary Sue Anton
R388 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Body Modern - Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject (Paperback): Michael Sappol Body Modern - Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject (Paperback)
Michael Sappol
R801 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R45 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, "Der Mensch als Industriepalast" (or "Man as Industrial Palace") achieved international fame and was reprinted, in various languages and versions, all over the world. It was a new kind of image-an illustration that was conceptual and scientific, a visual explanation of how things work-and Kahn built a career of this new genre. In collaboration with a stable of artists (only some of whom were credited), Kahn created thousands of images that were metaphorical, allusive, and self-consciously modern, using an eclectic grab-bag of schools and styles: Dada, Art Deco, photomontage, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus functionalism, and commercial illustration. In Body Modern, Michael Sappol offers the first in-depth critical study of Fritz Kahn and his visual rhetoric. Kahn was an impresario of the modern who catered to readers who were hungry for products and concepts that could help them acquire and perform an overdetermined "modern" identity. He and his artists created playful new visual tropes and genres that used striking metaphors to scientifically explain the "life of Man." This rich and largely obscure corpus of images was a technology of the self that naturalized the modern and its technologies by situating them inside the human body. The scope of Kahn's project was vast-entirely new kinds of visual explanation-and so was his influence. Today, his legacy can be seen in textbooks, magazines, posters, public health pamphlets, educational websites, and Hollywood movies. But, Sappol concludes, Kahn's illustrations also pose profound and unsettling epistemological questions about the construction and performance of the self. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 images, Body Modern imaginatively explores the relationship between conceptual image, image production, and embodied experience.

The Octagon House - A Home for All (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): Orson Squire Fowler The Octagon House - A Home for All (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
Orson Squire Fowler; Introduction by B Madeleine Stern
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Grandfather's Gallery - A Family Memoir of Art and War (Paperback): Anne Sinclair My Grandfather's Gallery - A Family Memoir of Art and War (Paperback)
Anne Sinclair; Translated by Shaun Whiteside
R461 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rustic Architecture of Montana (Paperback): Curt Thurstonson Rustic Architecture of Montana (Paperback)
Curt Thurstonson
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frankly Speaking - A Collection of Essays, Writings and Rants (Paperback): Frank Moore Frankly Speaking - A Collection of Essays, Writings and Rants (Paperback)
Frank Moore
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this, the first collection of prose by "one of the U.S.'s most controversial performance artists" (P-Form Magazine), Frank Moore explores his deep and uncompromising vision of human liberation and art as a "battle against fragmentation." In the essays, writings and rants of Frankly Speaking, roughly covering the period from the late 1970s until his death in 2013, Moore reveals his plan for the complete political and social transformation of American society (see Platform for Frank's Presidential Candidacy 2008), stirs up the "art world," urging fellow artists to truly live their calling and not accept censorship (see Art is Not Toothpaste or The Combine Plot), pulls the reader deeply into the heart of magic, responsibility, shamanism, play, and expanded sexuality (see Inter-Penetration or Dance of No Dancers), and much much more. Frank Moore's essays have been praised by political activists, authors, artists and cultural icons like Bill Mandel, John Sinclair, Penny Arcade, Annie Sprinkle and many others for their comprehensive and revolutionary world-view. The reader gets to join Frank's joyful and fearless digging into the core issues of human experience to get to something deeper: intimacy, tribal community, freedom. Frankly Speaking also gives us a peek into the history of these pieces, which have been widely published all over the world, from the smallest of underground zines to the most established mainstream art journals. But Frank always focused on the small, personal, intimate level, and always fought to stay "underground." As he writes in Mainstream Avant-Garde?: "The underground is where the real freedom and the real ability to change society are to be found." The writings in this collection have this "beautiful slow pace as if forcing the mind of the reader to change pace as well and let the other world come to the forefront - the cartography of the soul is where you take us ... each in our own way ... rather than your way ... which is generous indeed of you." (Shelley Berc, writer, teacher) "You've hit another homer ... You ought to publish a book of essays or perhaps a Frank Moore anthology." - Bill Mandel, broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist and author, best known for his televised condemnation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early '50s and later for his dramatic defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in May 1960. Published by Inter-Relations

Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus - and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Ecuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet,... Great Horsewomen of the 19th Century in the Circus - and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Ecuyeres: Catherine Durand Henriquet, Eloise Schwarz King, Geraldine Katharina Knie, and Katja Schumann Binder (Paperback)
Hilda Nelson; Edited by Richard F. Williams; Foreword by Dominique Jando
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Making Magic - The Marion Mahony Griffin Story (Paperback): Glenda Korporaal Making Magic - The Marion Mahony Griffin Story (Paperback)
Glenda Korporaal
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eaton Hall - Pride of King Township (Hardcover): Kelly Rachelle Mathews Eaton Hall - Pride of King Township (Hardcover)
Kelly Rachelle Mathews; Foreword by Steve Pellegrini
R825 R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Save R146 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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