Ed Ruscha. Ediz. Inglese
Author: Richard D. Marshall
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Published: 2005-06-14
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first monograph on the many-faceted career of Ed Ruscha.
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Mario Schifano. Paintings 1960-1966. Ediz. Inglese
Author: Luca Beatrice
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Andy Warhol Show. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Author: Andy Warhol
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most eclectic, celebrated and influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol is an emblem of American culture of the sixties and seventies. The Andy Warhol Show sheds light not only on the revolutionary role that Warhol played in art but also his influence on graphic design, communication and fashion. Introduced by the editors Gianni Mercurio and Daniela Morera, the exhibition catalogue includes new essays by Bruno Bischofberger, Victor Bokris, Ronald Feldman, Glenn 'O Brien and a critical essay by Demetrio Paparoni. The main nucleus of works reproduced in this striking catalogue is impressive: in addition to the 200 paintings which span his entire career, the book showcases a rich collection of photographs, graphic works and drawings, including Warhol's early illustrations for fashion magazines. The fundamental themes of the Warhol aesthetic can be seen here in some of their most representative examples: the beauty-success-power myth (portraits of Marilyn, Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, Jaqueline Kennedy, Mao); consumerism (Campbell's Soup, Brillo Box, Dollar Sign); advertising, serial repetition of an image, the tragic symbols of catastrophe and death (Suicide, Electric Chair); portraits of artists, dealers, friends such as Leo Castelli, Keith Haring, Dennis Hopper; the passage through abstract art (Camouflage, Shadows); collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente; and The Last Supper, Warhol's final series of works.
Indonesian art. Pleasures of chaos. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Author: Jim Supangkat
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Secondo la teoria dell'entropia si può presupporre che la condizione di disordine che abbiamo oggi nella vita moderna non sia un sintomo negativo...". Così dichiara Jim Supangkat, autorevole critico e curatore indonesiano, nell'introduzione di questo volume che indaga la scena artistica contemporanea del suo paese attraverso il lavoro di dieci artisti cardine. Similmente alla produzione artistica di altre piazze asiatiche, soprattutto Cina e India, anche l'Indonesiana celebra il caos come, appunto, sintomo globalizzato non necessariamente privo di possibilità espressive. Prosegue, infatti, Supangkat: "Quando il caos raggiunge il suo punto critico, il processo di decadenza e le condizioni di disordine si concludono e una nuova sostanza prende forma, con un livello di ordine che è del tutto differente da quello che esisteva prima...".
Gabriele Basilico. Photobooks 1978-2005. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Author: Gabriele Basilico
Publisher: Corraini
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere's a book that for the first time collects and catalogues all Gabriele Basilico's photo books, from 1978 to 2006: over twenty years of career. Every book is presented with its original cover, bibliographic data and a photo taken from the interiors. Page by page, photo by photo, the reader will discover the richness and variety of matters in Basilico's photos: Milanese suburbs in the last Seventies, dancing halls in Emilia, industries, ports and finally Beirut in early Nineties and the new soul of Berlin. This book is a useful way for scholars but also for simple lovers of good photography to make a point about the career of a photographer that has built our perception of contemporary landscape. With an introduction by Italo Rota and a comment by Gabriele Basilico.
Salvatore Scarpitta. Catalogue raisonné. Ediz. italiana e inglese
Author: Salvatore Scarpitta
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBIM Handbook
Author: Rafael Sacks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-03-25
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 111802169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The BIM Handbook is an extensively researched and meticulously written book, showing evidence of years of work rather than something that has been quickly put together in the course of a few months. It brings together most of the current information about BIM, its history, as well as its potential future in one convenient place, and can serve as a handy reference book on BIM for anyone who is involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings and needs to know about the technologies that support it. The need for such a book is indisputable, and it is terrific that Chuck Eastman and his team were able to step up to the plate and make it happen. Thanks to their efforts, anyone in the AEC industry looking for a deeper understanding of BIM now knows exactly where to look for it." AECbytes book review, August 28, 2008 (www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/BIMHandbook.html) DISCOVER BIM: A BETTER WAY TO BUILD BETTER BUILDINGS Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built. The BIM Handbook, Second Edition provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. Updates to this edition include: Completely updated material covering the current practice and technology in this fast-moving field Expanded coverage of lean construction and its use of BIM, with special focus on Integrated Project Delivery throughout the book New insight on the ways BIM facilitates sustainable building New information on interoperability schemas and collaboration tools Six new case studies Painting a colorful and thorough picture of the state of the art in building information modeling, the BIM Handbook, Second Edition guides readers to successful implementations, helping them to avoid needless frustration and costs and take full advantage of this paradigm-shifting approach to construct better buildings that consume fewer materials and require less time, labor, and capital resources.
Leo and His Circle
Author: Annie Cohen-Solal
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2010-05-18
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0307593045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (“an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), recounts his incalculably influential and astonishing life in Leo and His Circle. After emigrating to New York in 1941, Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years, when he had reached the age of fifty. But as the first to exhibit the then-unknown Jasper Johns, Castelli emerged as a tastemaker overnight and fast came to champion a virtual Who’s Who of twentieth-century masters: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Twombly, to name a few. The secret of Leo’s success? Personal devotion to the artists, his “heroes”: by putting young talents on stipend and seeking placement in the ideal collection rather than with the top bidder, he transformed the way business was done, multiplying the capital, both cultural and financial, of those he represented. His enterprise, which by 1980 had expanded to an impressive network of satellite galleries in Europe and three locations in New York, thus became the unrivaled commercial institution in American art, producing a generation of acolytes, among them Mary Boone, Jeffrey Deitch, Larry Gagosian, and Tony Shafrazi. Leo and His Circle brilliantly narrates the course of one man’s power and influence. But Castelli had another secret, too: his life as an Italian Jew. Annie Cohen-Solal traces a family whose fortunes rose and fell for centuries before the Castellis fled European fascism. Never hidden but also never discussed, this experience would form the core of a guarded but magnetic character possessed of unfailing old-world charm and a refusal to look backward—traits that ensured Castelli’s visionary precedence in every major new movement from Pop to Conceptual and by which he fostered the worldwide enthusiasm for American contemporary art that is his greatest legacy. Drawing on her friendship with the subject, as well as an uncanny knack for archival excavation, Annie Cohen-Solal gives us in full the elegant, shrewd, irresistible, and enigmatic figure at the very center of postwar American art, bringing an utterly new understanding of its evolution.
