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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in(...)
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January 1900, London
Making art work : the Mike Smith Studio
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in London furnishes the architecture for the most pressing installations and sculptures of young British artists. He is the carborundum that enables the best artists working in Britain today to realize their work - Rachel Whiteread's monument in Trafalgar Square is a testament to his work. The painter Patsy Craig has unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with the process of creation of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond and Mark Wallinger. She has collected from the Studio's archives, along with the detritus, the correspondence, notes, ideas, failures and successes of these and other artists at the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the construction of a significant theory in current British art. It is an assembly of the very templates of the thinking, design and creation of art in Britain today.
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Mini presque tout
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Un mini ouvrage pour savoir presque tout sur : les costumes du monde, les maisons, les voitures, les trains, les bateaux, les avions, les hélicoptères, les instruments de musique.
Mini presque tout
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Un mini ouvrage pour savoir presque tout sur : les costumes du monde, les maisons, les voitures, les trains, les bateaux, les avions, les hélicoptères, les instruments de musique.
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Jouets des champs
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Une mère apprend à son fils à remplacer ses jouets par ce que la nature lui offre, le temps d'une promenade, la graine devient hélicoptère, le pissenlit un parachute et le coquelicot se transforme en poupée. Une invitation à savoir ouvrir les yeux et créer ses mondes à partir du monde.
Jouets des champs
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Une mère apprend à son fils à remplacer ses jouets par ce que la nature lui offre, le temps d'une promenade, la graine devient hélicoptère, le pissenlit un parachute et le coquelicot se transforme en poupée. Une invitation à savoir ouvrir les yeux et créer ses mondes à partir du monde.
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In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Dame, or overlook a miniature model city. In Aeroscopics, Patrick Ellis offers(...)
Aeroscopics: Media of the bird's-eye view
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In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Dame, or overlook a miniature model city. In Aeroscopics, Patrick Ellis offers a history of the view from above, written from below. Illustrated and premised upon extensive archival work, this interdisciplinary study reveals the forgotten media available to the public in the Balloon Era and after. Ellis resurrects these neglected spectacles as "aeroscopics," opening up new possibilities for the history of aerial vision.
Theory of Photography
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the most popular artists ever. Who, for example, has never heard of the Mona Lisa? But did you know that he was fascinated by anatomy, or that he was also an inventor and engineer who made drawings of flying machines and helicopters-and this was centuries ago? Rich in ideas, delighted to experiment, and a keen observer, he was truly(...)
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April 2000, Munich - Berlin - London - New York
Leonardo da Vinci : dreams, schemes, and flying machines
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the most popular artists ever. Who, for example, has never heard of the Mona Lisa? But did you know that he was fascinated by anatomy, or that he was also an inventor and engineer who made drawings of flying machines and helicopters-and this was centuries ago? Rich in ideas, delighted to experiment, and a keen observer, he was truly an all-round genius. In this book you can explore all these aspects and of course meet the real Mona Lisa as well.
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In September 1976, a curtain of shimmering white was unfurled across the hills of rural northern California, running unbroken for 24.5 miles from Sonoma County to the Pacific Ocean. The artistic vision of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence was 18 feet high and traversed the private properties of 59 ranchers. Although it remained in place for just two weeks, the(...)
Christo and Jean-Claude: Remembering the running fence
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In September 1976, a curtain of shimmering white was unfurled across the hills of rural northern California, running unbroken for 24.5 miles from Sonoma County to the Pacific Ocean. The artistic vision of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence was 18 feet high and traversed the private properties of 59 ranchers. Although it remained in place for just two weeks, the process of planning it consumed nearly four years, and the installation required helicopters, barges, lawyers, and more than 300 Bay Area students and workers. Illustrated throughout with graphic representations and photographs, Christo and Jeanne-Claude recounts how two artists who were complete strangers to the area gradually enlisted the support of entire communities in order to make their vision a reality.
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Lucifer rising
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Hendrik Hegray (Limoges, France 1981) works and lives in Paris. His influences are cartoons, 90's video-games, abstract pictures and 80's horror movies. He has published self-made zines for the last ten years (Super Kasher, Télérama, etc.), has worked with publishers like FLTMSTPC (Frédéric Magazine) and Nieves, and collaborated with artists like Andy Bolus (Evil(...)
Lucifer rising
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Hendrik Hegray (Limoges, France 1981) works and lives in Paris. His influences are cartoons, 90's video-games, abstract pictures and 80's horror movies. He has published self-made zines for the last ten years (Super Kasher, Télérama, etc.), has worked with publishers like FLTMSTPC (Frédéric Magazine) and Nieves, and collaborated with artists like Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture), Mehdi Hercberg (Shoboshobo), Kerozen, Jelle Crama and Dennis Tyfus. Hegray co-runs the graphic zine Nazi-Knife with Jonas Delaborde since 2006 and plays in differents musical projects like Helicoptère Sanglante or the free-noise band Minitel with members of Sister Iodine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Nieves Library" at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. May 17th – September 28th, 2008.
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January 2008, Zürich
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Paul Graham: Troubled land
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An iconic project made at the height of the ''Troubles'', ''Troubled land'' deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At the heart of the Irish conflict lays the land — who owns it, who controls it, whose history it expresses. Paul Graham’s quietly radical book keeps this material truth in mind as it(...)
Paul Graham: Troubled land
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An iconic project made at the height of the ''Troubles'', ''Troubled land'' deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At the heart of the Irish conflict lays the land — who owns it, who controls it, whose history it expresses. Paul Graham’s quietly radical book keeps this material truth in mind as it uniquely combines landscape and conflict photography, seducing us with bucolic views in which telling details only gradually appear: painted kerbs, distant soldiers or helicopters, flags and graffiti, paint-splattered roads, each tacitly aligning that location to its Republican or Loyalist allegiance. Pastoral photographs of green fields and hedgerows reveal themselves to be images of conflict and dispute — despite the steadiness of the photographic frame and the clarity of Graham’s vision, this is unsettled land. Originally published in 1986, ''Troubled land'' is reprinted here for the first time in thirty-five years. Controversial then for its use of colour and refusal to follow the clichéd tropes of photojournalism, the book was pivotal in providing a fresh perspective on Northern Ireland’s ''Troubles'' and left a lasting impact on landscape photography, suggesting how it might engage with politics and society rather than escape from them. Together with ''A1 – The Great North Road'' and ''Beyond Caring,'' it completes a new edition of the remarkable trilogy of books Graham made in 1980s UK.
Photography monographs
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People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left standing and falling... The Belfast Exposed Archive(...)
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin : people in trouble pushed to the ground
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People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left standing and falling... The Belfast Exposed Archive occupies a small room on the first floor at 23 Donegal Street and contains over 14,000 black-and-white contact sheets, documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. These are photographs taken by professional photo-journalists and 'civilian' photographers, chronicling protests, funerals and acts of terrorism as well as the more ordinary stuff of life: drinking tea; kissing girls; watching trains. Belfast Exposed was founded in 1983 as a response to concern over the careful control of images depicting British military activity during the Troubles. The marks on the surface of the contact strips – across the image itself – allude to the presence of many visitors. These include successive archivists, who have ordered, catalogued and re-catalogued this jumble of images. For many years the archive was also made available to members of the public, and sometimes they would deface their own image with a marker pen, ink or scissors. So, in addition to the marks made by generations of archivists, photo editors, legal aides and activists, the traces of these very personal obliterations are also visible. They are the gestures of those who wished to remain anonymous.
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