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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite(...)
Blue Republic: Nostalgia for the Present
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Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite reflection on the meta-city and on the notions of utopia and dystopia through a fictional, futuristic lens in order to reveal the desires and fantasies and that drive contemporary society.
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Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider(...)
Parallel strokes
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Parallel strokes is a collection of interviews with 19 contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world (Akira Kobayashi, Barry McGee, Daim and Seak, Ed Fella, among others). The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
Public art New York
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A tour of the best permanent public art in all five boroughs of New York City. From outdoor sculpture in public plazas and landscapes to murals and works of art in lobbies accessible to the public, this book focuses on how exemplary works of public art enrich urban public space. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, Public Art New York is organized by neighborhood, with(...)
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March 2009, New York, London
Public art New York
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A tour of the best permanent public art in all five boroughs of New York City. From outdoor sculpture in public plazas and landscapes to murals and works of art in lobbies accessible to the public, this book focuses on how exemplary works of public art enrich urban public space. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, Public Art New York is organized by neighborhood, with maps suitable for walking tours. Architect Jean Parker Phifer specializes in planning, renovation and sustainable design projects for cultural institutions and has designed or restored numerous buildings, public spaces, and landscapes, primarily in New York.
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In City/Art anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity—broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and(...)
City/art: the urban scene in Latin America
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In City/Art anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity—broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and more—combines with nationalist rhetoric and historical discourse to define Latin American cities. Taken together, the essays model different ways of approaching Latin America’s urban centers not only as places that inspire and house creative practices but also as ongoing collective creative endeavors themselves. The essays range from an examination of how differences of scale and point of view affect people’s experience of everyday life in Mexico City to a reflection on the transformation of a prison into a shopping mall in Uruguay, and from an analysis of Buenos Aires’ preoccupation with its own status and cultural identity to a consideration of what Miami means to Cubans in the United States.
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques(...)
Une journée sans vague : chronologie lacunaire du skateboard, 1779-2005
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Dans une position qui n’est pas sans rappeler l’intérêt d’artistes tels que Dan Graham ou Robert Smithson pour les cultures populaires, Raphaël Zarka se documente et écrit au sujet du skateboard depuis plusieurs années. Cet ouvrage décrit l’évolution du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu’à l’ambivalente popularité médiatique dont elle jouit depuis quelques années. Tout aussi lacunaire qu'elle puisse être, cette chronologie du skateboard est, sans précédant, le seul ouvrage sur ce thème disponible en langue française.
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Those are the last copies, the book is out of print. N55 works with art as a part of everyday life. N55 BOOK is an accumulation of manuals for different things made by N55. Most of the manuals have been published separately between 1996 and 2003 as periodicals and on the N55 website.
January 2006, Copenhagen
N55 book
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Those are the last copies, the book is out of print. N55 works with art as a part of everyday life. N55 BOOK is an accumulation of manuals for different things made by N55. Most of the manuals have been published separately between 1996 and 2003 as periodicals and on the N55 website.
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January 2006, Copenhagen
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
Le lieu unique : lee chantier, un acte culturel / Nantes
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Le Lieu Unique, installé dans l'ancienne biscuiterie Lefèvre-Utile à Nantes, est l'aboutissement d'un défi : la rencontre entre un projet culturel innovant et une démarche architecturale inhabituelle.
A history of Brooklyn Bridge Park: how a community reclaimed and transformed NYC's waterfront
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By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around the world. ''A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park'' recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to(...)
A history of Brooklyn Bridge Park: how a community reclaimed and transformed NYC's waterfront
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By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around the world. ''A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park'' recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into a beautiful, urban oasis. The movement to resist commercial development on the piers reveals how concerned citizens came together to shape the future of their community.
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Street Value offers an in-depth look at one of Downtown Brooklyn's longest redevelopment sagas. This book features a visual tour of the legendary pedestrian mall, a history of Fulton Street's varied transformations, and interviews with key planners and city officials whose decisions drove its redesign in the 1960s and 2000s. With original and archival(...)
Street value: Shopping, planning, and politics at Fulton Mall
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Street Value offers an in-depth look at one of Downtown Brooklyn's longest redevelopment sagas. This book features a visual tour of the legendary pedestrian mall, a history of Fulton Street's varied transformations, and interviews with key planners and city officials whose decisions drove its redesign in the 1960s and 2000s. With original and archival documentation—including newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, visual projections, and analyses—it is a guide to Fulton Mall's past, a call to re-envision its future, and a case study for other urban-commercial developments of its kind.
Activism doubt
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The visual report ‘Activism Doubt,’ is the vibrant result of a series of public works where Jonas Staal and Harmen de Hoop used each other as performers for their respective works according to a number of agreed rules. This process resulted in a powerful mapping of artistic possibilities that engage with public space/the public domain, while also examining such questions(...)
Activism doubt
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The visual report ‘Activism Doubt,’ is the vibrant result of a series of public works where Jonas Staal and Harmen de Hoop used each other as performers for their respective works according to a number of agreed rules. This process resulted in a powerful mapping of artistic possibilities that engage with public space/the public domain, while also examining such questions as – is it possible to combine both political and artistic objectives?, and; what is the influence of the artist on the structure and usage of the public domain? Intriguing and engaging, the book is illustrated throughout and accompanied by interviews with the two artists, letters and explanatory notes.