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Jim [Mortram]’s photographs somehow manage to combine the most tender beauty with a terrible sense of the obscene. There is a stark honesty here, a challenge, a disturbance, true witness and always empathy, always compassion. These are not the images of a skillful outsider cooly observing and recording, these are the howls of outrage and hymns of humanity from deep within(...)
J. A. Mortram: Small town inertia, diary entries 2
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Jim [Mortram]’s photographs somehow manage to combine the most tender beauty with a terrible sense of the obscene. There is a stark honesty here, a challenge, a disturbance, true witness and always empathy, always compassion. These are not the images of a skillful outsider cooly observing and recording, these are the howls of outrage and hymns of humanity from deep within the thick of it. (Michael Sheen)
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the(...)
Crash
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead mans wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes.
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Architecture and the imaginary
À quoi penses-tu?
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Voici un livre d’artiste à la poésie libre et ludique signé Laurent Moreau, où l’on peut s’amuser à découvrir les pensées et émotions des personnages d’une même rue. Ainsi, Maxime, le petit garçon, s’invente des aventures, Anaëlle a des envies sucrées, Marie est terriblement jalouse et même le chat de la rue, le narrateur du livre, pense à... son maître ! Des(...)
À quoi penses-tu?
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Voici un livre d’artiste à la poésie libre et ludique signé Laurent Moreau, où l’on peut s’amuser à découvrir les pensées et émotions des personnages d’une même rue. Ainsi, Maxime, le petit garçon, s’invente des aventures, Anaëlle a des envies sucrées, Marie est terriblement jalouse et même le chat de la rue, le narrateur du livre, pense à... son maître ! Des portraits à la gouache tout en liberté associés à de grands rabats à soulever dévoilent pensées intimes, sentiments indicibles et relations entre les personnages d’une même rue que l’on retrouve tous à la fin du livre. Derrière les visages, Laurent Moreau offre à chacun d’entre eux une traduction graphique de la sensibilité et des sensations. De cette découverte surgissent questions et dialogue entre parents/adultes et enfants. Que sont les sentiments ? Que cachent les apparences ? Qui sont les autres ?
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Following the trail of 50 different trees, this guide presents a natural, inspirational perspective on the Island of Montreal, offering a sense of belonging to an ancient forest in its modern form. Going beyond the traits defining the trees and instead interpreting their stories, the collection complements each tale with a fascinating illustration. Montreal is(...)
Island of trees: fifty trees, fifty tales of Montreal
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Following the trail of 50 different trees, this guide presents a natural, inspirational perspective on the Island of Montreal, offering a sense of belonging to an ancient forest in its modern form. Going beyond the traits defining the trees and instead interpreting their stories, the collection complements each tale with a fascinating illustration. Montreal is demonstrated as having its own unique ecosystem—insulated by the St. Lawrence River and the Rivière des Prairies—allowing species such as the giant cottonwood poplars to thrive all along the shoreline.
Architecture de Montréal
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Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food - cooking, agriculture, processing, and preservation - he considers a variety of questions, including why people like some kinds of foods and not others; how your senses contribute to flavour;(...)
Food: a very short introduction
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Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food - cooking, agriculture, processing, and preservation - he considers a variety of questions, including why people like some kinds of foods and not others; how your senses contribute to flavour; the role of genetics in our likes and dislikes; and the differences in learning and culture around the world.
Critical Theory
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of(...)
Chaos, territory, art, Deleuze and the framing of the earth
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention and aesthetic. By regarding our most cultured human accomplishments as the result of the excessive, nonfunctional forces of sexual attraction and seduction, Grosz encourages us to see art as a kind of bodily enhancement or mode of sensation enabling living bodies to experience and transform the universe. Art can be understood as a way for bodies to augment themselves and their capacity for perception and affection-a way to grow and evolve through sensation. Through this framework, which knits together the theories of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, FA(c)lix Guattari, and Jakob von UexkA1/4ll, we are able to grasp art's deep animal lineage. Grosz argues that art is not tied to the predictable and known but to new futures not contained in the present. Its animal affiliations ensure that art is intensely political and charged with the creation of new worlds and new forms of living. According to Grosz, art is the way in which life experiments with materiality, or nature, in order to bring about change.
Critical Theory
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Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with a description of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming(...)
Across an inland sea : writing in place form Buffalo to Berlin
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Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with a description of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene of twentieth-century history--and a city that helped him make sense of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake ourselves through voyage, and the wonder of the familiar. In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art and literature. Across an Inland Sea evokes the various senses of place that can fill and haunt a life--and ultimately give life its form and meaning.
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Richard Serra: 2022
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Richard Serra’s hugely successful body of work consistently explores the possibilities of form and matter. Serra’s steel sculptures are held in major collections internationally, and his drawings assert themselves as abstract victories. Through the use of black paintstick—a combination of oil paint, wax, and pigment, to which he has used since 1971—Serra’s drawings convey(...)
Richard Serra: 2022
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Richard Serra’s hugely successful body of work consistently explores the possibilities of form and matter. Serra’s steel sculptures are held in major collections internationally, and his drawings assert themselves as abstract victories. Through the use of black paintstick—a combination of oil paint, wax, and pigment, to which he has used since 1971—Serra’s drawings convey a strong sense of optical weight, acutely similar to the physical presence of his sculptures. 2022, the artist’s largest single forged round to date, investigates properties of weight and scale.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and(...)
Marcel Meili, Marcus Peter Architects Zurich : the house of stone
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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and Peter Zumthor, and contains a detailed description of the concepts underlying the design. A particular focus is the relation between the structural and the technical aspects of the project, which is described through engineering and working drawings as well as photographs of the house under construction.
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Clear geometric forms become sculptural buildings when given a thin skin of decorative patterns by Neutelings Riedijk architects. Their buildings are icons whose facades give surprising views inwards. Inside, the space is captured as a formgiving element tantalizing the senses. In this book the reader is taken through the many layers in their work, past competition(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2004, Rotterdam
At work : Neutelings Riedijk architects
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Clear geometric forms become sculptural buildings when given a thin skin of decorative patterns by Neutelings Riedijk architects. Their buildings are icons whose facades give surprising views inwards. Inside, the space is captured as a formgiving element tantalizing the senses. In this book the reader is taken through the many layers in their work, past competition entries and by way of realized to unrealized projects. Arranged into themes, the book presents texts on skin and patterns, hollows and patios, model studies of the sculptures and silhouettes, cartoons, photos and plans in this overview of the past ten years.
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