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Art Edition E- No. 401-500"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
Alaska, USA, "2009Gelatin silver print40 x 30 cm (16 x 12 in.)
Dans ce troisieme opus de sa serie realisee pour TASCHEN, la
celebre designer graphique Yang Liu confronte nos modes de vie
d'autrefois avec ceux d'aujourd'hui. Sur le modele de ses
precedents livres qui ont connu un immense succes,
Hier/aujourd'hui, mode d'emploi utilise le principe des paires de
pictogrammes saisissants pour evoquer les transformations et les
defis de notre monde en constante evolution. Liu s'est fait
connaitre par son melange de subtilite graphique et d'observation
perspicace de nos comportements. Dans Hier/aujourd'hui, mode
d'emploi, son regard aiguise sur nos gouts et nos tendances se fait
plus ambitieux puisqu'il en vient a juxtaposer passe et present
pour aborder les changements profonds de notre societe. Au fil des
pages, l'auteur nous fait observer les ideologies en opposition,
les menaces universelles passees et actuelles, notre relation a
l'environnement et l'immense impact de la technologie sur nos modes
de vie, nos modes de pensee et sur notre facon d'aimer, du commerce
en ligne a l'avenement d'un "homo numericus". Attentive a un grand
nombre de sujets, de la geopolitique a nos tendances a la
concentration, Liu integre a son panorama chaque detail de la vie
quotidienne comme des grands evenements historiques. A travers des
themes comme Facebook, le gaspillage alimentaire, les modes de
deplacement, la tendance a la concentration, Hier/aujourd'hui, mode
d'emploi promene un regard espiegle mais perspicace sur ce que nous
sommes et d'ou nous venons.
Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet
(1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the
Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my
God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of
absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from
the object. It could be said that Monet reinvented the
possibilities of color, and whether it was through his early
interest in Japanese prints, his time in the dazzling light of
Algeria as a conscript, or his personal acquaintance with the major
painters of the late 1800s, what Monet produced throughout his long
life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural
world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his
explorations were the late series of water lilies, painted in his
own garden at Giverny, that, in their moves towards almost total
formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art. This biography
does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly
influential of artists, and offers numerous reproductions and
archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.
On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened
for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch
of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA,
had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small
converted rockets into one of the greatest technological and
managerial enterprises ever known, capable of sending people to the
Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to
Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic
setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project
remains a byword for American ingenuity; the winged space shuttles
spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of
astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation
programs have transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our
home world's fragile place within it. Throughout NASA's 60-year
history, images have played a central role. Who today is not
familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope's mesmerizing views of the
universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface
rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men
walking on the Moon? Researched with the collaboration of NASA,
this collection gathers more than 400 historic photographs and rare
concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest
technology and reproduced in extra-large size. Texts by science and
technology journalist Piers Bizony, former NASA chief historian
Roger Launius, and best-selling Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin-and
an extensive mission checklist documenting the key human and
robotic missions-round out this comprehensive exploration of NASA,
from its earliest days to its current development of new space
systems for the future.The NASA Archives is more than just a
fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also
a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we
will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come.
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