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Le 10e arrondissement compte 155 rues, places, quais, squares, cités, avenues, jardins, boulevards, impasses et passages que j'ai décidé d'arpenter méthodiquement. Comme le titre l'indique, j'offrirai à terme, en commençant par l'arrondissement où je vis, une description générale de la ville. La muséification de Paris n'est pas étrangère à mon propos, mais l'œil en(...)
Paris, musée du XXIe siècle : le dixième arrondissement
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Le 10e arrondissement compte 155 rues, places, quais, squares, cités, avenues, jardins, boulevards, impasses et passages que j'ai décidé d'arpenter méthodiquement. Comme le titre l'indique, j'offrirai à terme, en commençant par l'arrondissement où je vis, une description générale de la ville. La muséification de Paris n'est pas étrangère à mon propos, mais l'œil en marche découvre tant de pièces insoupçonnées que la ville, par le jeu d'une exposition, rescintille. Les perles ne sont pas le tout du collier, c'est aussi le fil qui les tient. Un système de positionnement global étant nécessaire à la documentation des rues, j'ai adopté, après celle où j'habite, l'ordre alphabétique, et j'ai placé quelques bornes pour que le lecteur puisse, à son tour, entrer dehors. -T.C.
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
Exhibition design
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This book offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients, design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility, presenting ideas to clients, and the practicalities of production. The visual material(...)
Exhibition design
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This book offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients, design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility, presenting ideas to clients, and the practicalities of production. The visual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world renowned designers, concept drawings, computer renderings, charts and tables of information all for a wide range of exhibitions around the world, permanent and temporary, including museums and galleries, visitor centres, brand experiences, festivals and trade fairs.
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The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. With Museums Matter, James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, takes us on a brief tour(...)
Museums matter: in praise of the encyclopedic museum
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The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. With Museums Matter, James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, takes us on a brief tour of the modern museum, from the creation of the British Museum - the archetypal encyclopedic collection - to the present, when major museums host millions of visitors annually and play a major role in the cultural lives of their cities. Engaging with thinkers such as Edward Said and Martha Nussbaum, and drawing on examples from the politics of India to the destruction of the Bramiyan Buddhas to the history of trade and travel, Cuno makes a case for the encyclopedic museum as a truly cosmopolitan institution, promoting tolerance, understanding, and a shared sense of history - values that are essential in our ever more globalized age.
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Serpentine gallery pavillons
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Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions - temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a show-place for exhibitions of modern and contemporary(...)
Serpentine gallery pavillons
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Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions - temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a show-place for exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists. The projects completed or envisaged include the work of: Zaha Hadid, 2000; Daniel Libeskind, 2001; Toyo Ito, 2002; Oscar Niemeyer, 2003; MVRDV, 2004 (un-realised); Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, 2005; Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, 2006; Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007; Frank Gehry, 2008; SANAA, 2009; Jean Nouvel, 2010; and, other works such as Zaha Hadid's temporary 2006 installation Lilas are included in the book as well. This book is the first to bring together all of the Serpentine Pavilions.
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This book is split into six chapters that proceed more or less chronologically. It begins by exploring the origins of the museum both as a cultural phenomenon and as a particular type of space. Central to this, as the first chapter explores, was the ‘princely collection’, that is, collections of painting and sculpture assembled by royalty and the nobility across Europe(...)
The Museum : from its origins to the 21st century
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This book is split into six chapters that proceed more or less chronologically. It begins by exploring the origins of the museum both as a cultural phenomenon and as a particular type of space. Central to this, as the first chapter explores, was the ‘princely collection’, that is, collections of painting and sculpture assembled by royalty and the nobility across Europe that began during the Renaissance and continued during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although varying both in extent and artistic focus, the motivations driving the establishing of these early collections generally derived from their creators’ desires to fashion learned and enlightened images of themselves and their courts. With some exceptions, admission to these collections was limited to the social elite and those that they were trying to impress. The idea that collections should be open to a wider social group began to emerge during the eighteenth century with the advent of the wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities. These contained not just works of art, but all manner of objects, from natural history specimens to religious or cult artefacts, and everything in between.
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New museums in Spain
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Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire museum buildings. The present book, which is also suitable as a museum guide, confirms the world-class nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael Moneo's early Museo Nacional de Arte Romano in Merida to Herzog & de(...)
New museums in Spain
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Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire museum buildings. The present book, which is also suitable as a museum guide, confirms the world-class nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael Moneo's early Museo Nacional de Arte Romano in Merida to Herzog & de Meuron's new CaixaForum art gallery in Madrid.
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The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the middle of the 19th century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. This publication retraces the history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.
Fair world: a history of world's fairs and expositions, from London to Shangai 1851-2010
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The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the middle of the 19th century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. This publication retraces the history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.
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The story of the most influential art exhibitions from 1960, Biennials and Beyond assembles a wealth of rare and never before published documentation, from installation photographs and reviews to floor plans, catalogue excerpts and other primary ephemera, looking at the history of contemporary art through the lens of 25 significant exhibitions. With an introductory essay(...)
Biennials and beyond: exhibitions that made art history, 1962-2002
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The story of the most influential art exhibitions from 1960, Biennials and Beyond assembles a wealth of rare and never before published documentation, from installation photographs and reviews to floor plans, catalogue excerpts and other primary ephemera, looking at the history of contemporary art through the lens of 25 significant exhibitions. With an introductory essay and concise overviews of each exhibition by art historian Bruce Altshuler, Biennials and Beyond is a unique sourcebook that offers direct access to the most influential exhibitions of the last 50 years.
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This book sheds light on the Belgian pavilions for the World's Fairs in Paris 1937 and New York 1939-40. Both buildings were designed by teams that were headed by Henry van de Velde, one of the founding fathers of modern architecture in Belgium. After the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Belgian pavilion was re-erected on the campus of the Afro American Virginia Union(...)
Belgium at the fair : Exile on Main street, Paris, New York, Richmond
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This book sheds light on the Belgian pavilions for the World's Fairs in Paris 1937 and New York 1939-40. Both buildings were designed by teams that were headed by Henry van de Velde, one of the founding fathers of modern architecture in Belgium. After the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Belgian pavilion was re-erected on the campus of the Afro American Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA.
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Museums are often among the most iconic buildings to grace a citys skyline. In fact, through the very prestige of the architects involved and the innovation of material form, a new museum can easily herald a citys arrival on the world stage as a center for art and culture.
Culture and art - museum design : art museum, humanistic museum
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Museums are often among the most iconic buildings to grace a citys skyline. In fact, through the very prestige of the architects involved and the innovation of material form, a new museum can easily herald a citys arrival on the world stage as a center for art and culture.
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