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Artists land nature

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This volume presents five important contemporary artists who work in the landscape and make use of the materials and processes of nature. While the artists showcased — herman de vries, Chris Drury, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long, and Giuseppe Pennone — do not belong to a particular school, they are united by their empathy for the natural world and their decision to work outside the urban contexts of much modernist art. Profiles of each artist, based on specially commissioned interviews, and an essay placing their art in both historical and contemporary contexts accompany the illustrations.

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Lyons and McLean : promenade

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"Promenade" documents the successful architect-artist collaboration of Irena Bauman Lyons and Bruce McLean on the RIBA award-winning scheme for the regeneration of Bridlington's Seafront. Mel Gooding's narration of the genesis and realisation of the project is complemented by essays on the culture of the British seaside, seaside architecture and on art at the edge between sea and land.

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National and University Library, Ljubljana: Joze Plecnik

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Architecture in Detail series.

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ABZ : alphabets, graphismes, typos et autres signes

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ABZ présente, en couleurs, une multitude d’alphabets complets, une myriade d’emblèmes et de logos, de pages élégantes et d’exemples étonnants de l’avant-garde graphique du début du XXe siècle. Issus de collections, privées pour la plupart, disséminées à travers le monde, de Londres à Mexico en passant par Prague, Amsterdam et New York, la plupart de ces splendides documents sont reproduits ici pour la première fois. Dans ce voyage au pays des lettres et des signes, on pourra rencontrer l’alphabet photo-poétique de Karel Teige, l’un des leaders de l’avant-garde de l’entre-deux-guerres ; les pages émouvantes issues d’un manuel espagnol pour les soldats analphabètes ; les typographies avant-gardistes de Lajos Kassak ; les caractères créés par Snellen pour les tableaux des opticiens, et l’impertinence élégante de journaux français, allemands, italiens et tchèques. On pourra aussi croiser les designers les plus célèbres, tels El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Ladislav Sutnar et A.M. Cassandre. Les textes d’accompagnement apprennent au lecteur l’histoire de chaque alphabet, l’usage pour lequel il a été créé, le succès qu’il a connu par la suite. Un merveilleux texte de Georges Pérec intitulé « L’alphabet » introduit le lecteur dans le monde magique des lettres .

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ABZ : more alphabets and other signs

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Julian Rothenstein turns his idiosyncratic eye towards eccentric alphabets, emblems, and logos discovered in avant-garde modernist publications and other curious sources. Hundreds of examples of graphic ephemera sit side-by-side, mixing peculiar charm with useful reference in one package. Special features include an alphabet, circa 1926, created from photographs of a dancing woman; original test-types for opticians’ charts; pages from sign artists’ manuals; and designs from fin de siècle French, German, Italian, and Czech journals. Nearly all of this material is reproduced here for the first time since its original publication.

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Peter Blake Alphabet

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Best known for designing the seminal Beatles album cover, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sir Peter Blake, born in 1932, is widely considered the godfather of British Pop art. Across his oeuvre, Blake has always drawn inspiration from popular culture, often collaging disparate elements or quoting from works by other artists. Over the years he has continued to produce art for many musicians, including Ian Dury, Paul Weller and Oasis. And today, he is hugely influential among contemporary fine artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. In 2007, Tate Liverpool presented a major retrospective exhibition of Blake's paintings. At the same time, London's Paul Stolper Gallery collaborated with the renowned fine art printmakers, Coriander Studio, to publish a new portfolio of prints and the accompanying book, Peter Blake: An Alphabet. Since the 1950s Blake has maintained a deep interest in the letters of the alphabet. This exquisitely fashioned volume reproduces all 26 of the new prints--one for each letter of the alphabet. Each visual interpretation is a collage of images from vintage cards, magazines and books, and the finished works are at once nostalgic and whimsical, humorous and fascinating. This spectacular abecedarium celebrates the interest, from childhood onwards, that we all share in letters and words. With an interview by the renowned art writer Mel Gooding and a specially designed cover by the artist, it is required reading for all Peter Blake fans.

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Joseph Banks` Florilegium: Botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage

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This is the first full-colour publication of some of the most extraordinary botanical prints of the 18th century. Banks’ Florilegium is not only a great scientific record, but also a major achievement of collaborative Enlightenment art, and a work of botanical illustration of outstanding beauty.