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Author: Sylvia Lavin
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783869844527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Yale School of Architecture Gallery, August 28-November 9, 2013.
Author: Susanna Phillips Newbury
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 145296601X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another’s evolution. She compellingly articulates how together they transformed the Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los Angeles’s burgeoning definition as the global city of the twenty-first century. Pairing particular works of art with specific innovations in real estate development, The Speculative City reveals the connections between real estate and contemporary art as they constructed Los Angeles’s present-day cityscape. From banal parking lots to Frank Gehry’s designs for artists’ studios and museums, Newbury examines pivotal interventions by artists and architects, city officials and cultural philanthropists, concluding with an examination of how, in the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, contemporary art emerged as a financial asset to fuel private wealth and urban gentrification. Both a history of the transformation of the Southland and a forensic examination of works of art, The Speculative City is a rich complement to the California chronicles by such writers as Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis.
Author: Lawrence Winkler
Publisher: Bellatrix
Published: 2012-08-29
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0991694112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up, to hitchhike around the world. The first arc he carved with his thumb stopped a little red pickup that took him over the horizon. Like his mythical hunter companion, Orion, he was on a vision quest, propelled toward the dawn to have his sight restored. This is the story of that five-year odyssey to discover his Destiny.
Author: Dorian MacDougall
Publisher: Dorian MacDougall
Published: 2019-01-27
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1734483415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1542, Spanish explorers landed upon the shores of Southern California expecting to find a terrestrial paradise and instead, found only a burnt-over desert. But during a four-hundred-year-long metamorphosis carried out by thousands of dissimilar individuals of far-flung imagination and fixed purpose, Southern California was transformed into the nation's most promised land-a tangible symbol of all the best life had to offer in mid-twentieth-century America. And at that glorious pinnacle of middle-class, suburban grace, it would remain no more than twenty years. But to this very day, it is those few years that continue to define the image and culture of Southern California in the imaginations of people from all around the world. California Pop tells the tale of how this once reviled region became one of the most celebrated slivers of coastline on the planet.
Author: Julie Rieger
Publisher: Atria/Enliven Books
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1501158902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold with uncensored Southern wit and guidance, this inspirational memoir “is a good primer on getting into the psychic realm” (Booklist) and recounts the story of a Hollywood film executive who journeys through the cosmic wilderness and, against all odds, discovers psychic superpowers that radically transformed her life. As a senior executive at one of the world’s largest movie studios, Julie Rieger spent her days marketing the imaginary stories of ghosts, faeries, superheroes, aliens, and more fantastical creatures. But after the devastating loss of her mother, the world of make-believe became reality when Julie captured her first ghost in a photograph and blew open a door to the Other Side. The Ghost Photographer chronicles Julie’s wild ride down the spiritual rabbit hole. After a series of unexpected, mind-blowing, and sometimes frightening encounters with the spirit realm, Julie was forced to face this strange awakening, flying in the face of scientific dogma and her own die-hard skepticism. Ultimately, she discovered that what she thought she had lost with the death of her mother—unconditional love—was in fact the greatest superpower one can wield. “A hugely entertaining must-read for anyone who’s ever struggled with loss or wondered what might be beyond the veil of our five senses” (Anita Moorjani, author of Dying To Be Me), The Ghost Photographer offers insights into our relationship with the spirit world, prayers and rituals for cleansing and protecting our homes from unwanted ghosts, and guidance on how to develop our intuition and sixth sense.
Author: Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0307946398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, from Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, is the first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. Goldberger follows Gehry from his humble origins—the son of working-class Jewish immigrants in Toronto—to the heights of his extraordinary career. He explores Gehry’s relationship to Los Angeles, a city that welcomed outsider artists and profoundly shaped him in his formative years. He surveys the full range of his work, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. to the architect’s own home in Santa Monica, which galvanized his neighbors and astonished the world. He analyzes his carefully crafted persona, in which an amiable surface masks a driving ambition. And he discusses his use of technology, not just to change the way a building looks, but to revolutionize the very practice of the field. Comprehensive and incisive, Building Art is a sweeping view of a singular artist—and an essential story of architecture’s modern era.
Author: Josh Karp
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1556526024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ultimate biography of "National Lampoon" and its cofounder Doug Kenney, this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters.
Author: Richard Hauser
Publisher: Hauser Publishing
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1939534224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you visiting Los Angeles and would like to find out about sightseeing opportunities, Hollywood tours, the city's best beaches and other popular things to do in Los Angeles and the Southern California area? Whether you are planning to visit one of the many Los Angeles museums, explore the historic El Pueblo de Los Angeles near Union Station, go shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, hike to the Hollywood sign or go off the beaten path and get to know one of many the ethnic neighborhoods - What To Do In Los Angeles is an up-to-date guide with plenty of attraction listings, images and sample itineraries that will give you lots of ideas for your upcoming trip and help you get to know the area the way only locals do. It even includes video of numerous sightseeing opportunites so you know exactly what to expect before you get there and can plan accordingly.
Author: Joseph Haynor Goldfuss
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-11-14
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 1465392076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrevity is the soul and wit of this publication; however, the medical industry is the largest and most complex combination of human resources ever assembled, earning it a status well worth writing about. Certain epigrams are gentle and subtle, and others quite caustic, but all contain some form of social or scientific commentary. If the reader has a morbid sense of humor, this book will be especially enjoyed.
Author: Edward Dimendberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0190218452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban space becomes envisioned and planned through "fly throughs," and technologies such as GPS add data to the experience of travel, moving images have captured the attention of geographers and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Their practice of "mobility studies" is remaking how we understand a contemporary world in relentless motion. Media theorist and historian Anne Friedberg (1952-2009) was among the first practitioners of visual studies to theorize the experience of vision in motion. Her books have become key points of reference in the discussion of the windows that frame images and the viewers in motion who perceive them. Although widely influential beyond her own discipline, Friedberg's work has never been the subject of an extended study. The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art and the Modern gathers together essays by renowned thinkers in media studies, art history, architecture, and museum studies to consider the rich implications of her work for understanding film and video, new media, visual art, architecture, exhibition design, urban space, and virtual reality. Ranging from early cinema, to works by Le Corbusier, Sergei Eisenstein, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Pierre Huyghe, to theories of the image in motion informed by psychoanalysis, theories of the public sphere, and animal studies, each of the nine essays in the book advances the lines of inquiry commenced by Friedberg.
