L.A. Deco
L.A. Deco

Author: Carla Breeze

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 104

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The architecture and interior design of 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles is celebrated in this delightful photographic tour of fabulously detailed residential, commercial, and public buildings. The distinctive Southern California version of the Art Deco style is revealed, from the hilltop Griffith Observatory to the houses designed by Lloyd Wright, among many others. An insightful introduction by respected architectural historian David Gebhard discusses the history of the style as it was adopted in the sunny, rather sleepy region during the early decades of the twentieth century. As a guidebook to extant architecture of the period in Los Angeles, L.A. Deco offers the latest look at these historic buildings, through the lens of Carla Breeze, a New York City-based photographer and the author of Pueblo Deco. Book jacket.

Los Angeles Art Deco
Los Angeles Art Deco

Author: Suzanne Tarbell Cooper

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738530277

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Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Dâecoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for art, architecture, and design that promoted progress, modernity, and the present. The greatest export from this exhibition was a style that has since been recognized as one of the great design movements of the 20th century. Art Deco's growing recognition coincided with the growth of Los Angeles as the entertainment capital. Between the world wars, the city's architecture sprouted characteristic signs of Art Deco: the interplay of vertical and horizontal features, geometric shapes, use of exotic and modern materials, as well as simplified streamlined forms. This volume's collection of images celebrates Los Angeles's Art Deco heritage, showcasing such structures as Bullock's Wilshire, Sunset Tower, the Oviatt Penthouse, the Wiltern and Pantages Theatres, and many more.--From publisher description.

Havana Deco
Havana Deco

Author: Alejandro G. Alonso

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780393732320

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An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.

The Frontiers of the Other
The Frontiers of the Other

Author: Gaetano Chiurazzi

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3643904347

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In recent years, the problem of translation has received renewed attention, but it has been mostly approached from a linguistic or ontological perspective. This book focuses on another aspect, i.e. the political and ethical implications of translation. Engaged in a debate, which encompasses various philosophers - such as Schleiermacher, Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset, Quine, Gadamer, Derrida, and Ricur - the book's contributions show that translation can be considered in an ambivalent way (which has a great ethical and political significance) as an attempt to bring the other back to one's own world or, vice versa, as an attempt to open up one's own world and to experience different cultures. Translation is in fact, inevitably, an experience of alterity. (Series: Philosophy - Language - Literature / Philosophie - Sprache - Literatur - Vol. 4)

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Publisher: Editex

Published:

Total Pages: 26

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La città della post-produzione
La città della post-produzione

Author: Sara Marini

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 8868121921

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Questo libro raccoglie una serie di saggi sulla postproduzione intesa sia quale condizione che connota oggi i territori europei – dopo il fordismo e il post-fordismo si assiste alla “rinuncia” a produrre prodotti concreti –, sia quale atteggiamento progettuale – realizzare non è più sufficiente e non è più centrale servono interventi altri, altre sovrascritture. Come nella prassi cinematografica, raramente la presa diretta esaurisce il momento di formalizzazione di un film: è necessario applicare un complesso di operazioni – raccolte appunto nel termine “postproduzione” – quali il doppiaggio, il montaggio, il missaggio che seguono la fase delle riprese e precedono la commercializzazione. Importare il termine “postproduzione” nel dizionario architettonico e urbanistico implica rivedere il processo progettuale alla luce di una sua estensione o di una rinnovata attenzione a tutto il suo arco di sviluppo. Questa raccolta di testi rappresenta la terza tappa di un percorso di ricerca avviato con la pubblicazione del volume Nello spessore. Traiettorie e stanze dentro la città e successivamente articolato nel libro Alter-azioni. Note oltre la realtà. Con questo terzo approfondimento su La città della post-produzione si chiude un ipotetico trittico dedicato all’architettura del progetto contemporaneo.

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

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Total Pages: 548

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