Winston Roeth
Winston Roeth

Author: Jörg Daur

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9783969120101

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Farbe ist Licht Intensive monochrome Farbflächen, strahlende Pigmente und vielschichtige Oberflächen sind die Charakteristika des Werkes von Winston Roeth (geb. 1945 in Chicago, lebt und arbeitet in Beacon, New York und Waldoboro, Maine). Seit den 1970er Jahren beschäftigt sich Roeth mit abstrakter Farbfeldmalerei und dem immer wiederkehrenden Motiv des Rasters, beide lädt er mit malerischen Erinnerungen an das Licht auf. "Licht, das hervorspringen und die Betrachtenden packen kann, eine Farbsättigung, die pulsiert vor tiefem Glühen", wie er es selbst beschreibt. In seinen Bildern strahlt es aus den Farbschichten heraus, von außen kommend prägt es als einfallendes Licht die Farbwirkung seiner Malerei. Roeth experimentiert dabei mit reinen Pigmenten, die er selbst zu Farben anrührt und in Farbschichten auf verschiedene Bildträger wie Papier, Aluminium-, Waben-, Schiefer- oder Holzplatten aufträgt. Das Buch dokumentiert einen Ausstellungsrundgang und zeigt Werke von den frühen 1990er Jahren bis ins Jahr 2020.

The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection

Author: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Publisher: Buffalo Fine Arts Albright Knox Art Gallery

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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"The gift of Natalie and Irving Forman of their stellar art collection of monochrome works of art--161 paintings and sculpture and 127 works on paper--constitutes a remarkable contribution to the permanent collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. It is the single largest gift to be donated at one time to the museum and is particularly noteworthy for its relevance and significance to the Gallery's collection of abstract art. This volume celebrates that magnificent gift, documents the painting and sculpture collection, and marks the exhibition that honors the Formans' generosity, on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery May 6-July 3, 2005"--Book jacket.

Atlas of Furniture Design
Atlas of Furniture Design

Author: Mateo Kries

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 1028

ISBN-13: 9783931936990

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In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than 500 designers and 121 manufacturers, it includes approximately 2800 images ranging from detailed object photographs to historical images documenting interiors, patents, brochures, and related works of art and architecture. The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind with more than 7000 works. The book presents selected pieces by the most important designers of the last 230 years and documents key periods in design history, including early nineteenth-century industrial furniture in bentwood and metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces and works by protagonists of classical modernism and postwar design, as well as postmodern and contemporary pieces. The Atlas of Furniture Design employed a team of more than 70 experts and features over 550 detailed texts about key objects. In-depth essays provide sociocultural and design-historical context to four historical epochs of furniture design and the pieces highlighted here, enriched by a detailed annex containing designer biographies, glossaries, and elaborate information graphics. The Atlas of Furniture Design is an indispensable resource for collectors, scholars and experts, as well as a beautifully designed object that speaks to design enthusiasts.

Billy Apple®
Billy Apple®

Author: CHRISTINA. BARTON

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781869409135

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"A major study of New Zealand¿s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand¿s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959¿62, Apple studied with key contemporaries ¿ notably David Hockney ¿ and staged one of the earliest solo exhibitions in the new `pop¿ art after changing his name, in 1962, to `Billy Apple¿. In 1964 he moved to New York. There, he worked as an art director, developed his art, exhibited extensively with leading artists (notably in the 1964 American Supermarket exhibition with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and others), and established one of the first alternative art spaces ¿ `Apple¿ ¿ which hosted some of the new ephemeral activities that enlivened the New York scene in the 1970s. He returned to live in New Zealand in 1990 where he continues to produce his particular brand of conceptual art. Apple¿s work is held in permanent collections from the Tate to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This is the first substantial book on Billy Apple¿s career. Based on over a decade of research all over the world and unprecedented access to Apple¿s own archive, Billy Apple®: Life/Work chronicles an extraordinary sixty-year career and the art scenes that have sustained it in London, New York and Auckland. The book includes more than 200 illustrations in colour, with a generous selection of reproductions of Apple¿s works as well as other illustrative material."

Essential Medical Genetics
Essential Medical Genetics

Author: Michael Connor

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1997-04-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780865426665

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Essential Medical Genetics gives a balanced introduction to the basic principles of genetics and how it is applied to the understanding and treatment of diseases with a genetic component. Divided into two sections, basic principles and clinical applications, it covers the information that medical students are taught at the preclinical and clinical levels. This book has been written for clinicians, scientists, counselors and teachers--and any other professionals desiring an understanding of modern medical genetics.

James Frazer Stirling
James Frazer Stirling

Author: Anthony Vidler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9780300167238

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The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924–1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative—and frequently controversial—projects as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959–63); the History Faculty building at Cambridge University (1964–67); the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977–84); the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain (1984); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (1979–84). Stirling was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where he trained and influenced many of the current leaders in the field. Fully illustrated with previously unpublished documents and new photography from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, this book allows for a close examination of design drawings, photographs, and models spanning Stirling’s entire career. These materials deepen our understanding of the influences, early formation, approach, and process of an architect whose work resists labeling. Filled with in-depth analytical and critical presentations of exemplary projects and their reception, the volume reveals Stirling to be a remarkably informed and consistent thinker and writer on architecture.

Paul Klee 1939
Paul Klee 1939

Author: Paul Klee

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1644230380

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The year before he died, in what was one of the most difficult yet prolific periods of his life, Paul Klee created some of his most surprising and innovative works. In 1939, the year before his death from a long illness and against a backdrop of sociopolitical turmoil and the outbreak of World War II, Klee worked with a vigor and inventiveness that rivaled even the most productive periods of his youth. This book illuminates the artist’s response to his personal difficulties and the era’s broader realities through imagery that is tirelessly inventive—by turns political, solemn, playful, humorous, and poetic. The works featured testify to Klee’s restless drive to experiment with form and material. His use of adhesive, grease, oil, chalk, and watercolor, among other media, resulted in surfaces that are not only visually striking, but also highly tactile and original. Not unlike a diary, the drawings are often meditative reflections on the pains and pleasures of life—their titles, among them Monsters in readiness and Struggles with himself, signal Klee’s frame of mind. Renowned art historian Dawn Ades looks at this group of paintings and drawings in the context of their time and as indicative of a pivotal moment in art history. Moved by this late period of Klee’s oeuvre, American artist Richard Tuttle responds to specific works in the form of dialogical poems. This stunning publication highlights the novelty and ingenuity of Klee’s late works, which deeply affected the generation of artists—including Anni Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, and Zao Wou-Ki—that emerged after World War II and continues to captivate artists and viewers alike today

Grammatically Correct
Grammatically Correct

Author: Anne Stilman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-07-07

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1582976163

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How does good writing stand out? If its purpose is to convey facts, findings, or instructions, it need be read only once for its content to be clear. If its purpose is to entertain or to provoke thought, it makes readers want to come back for more. Revised and updated, this guide covers four essential aspects of good writing: • Individual words - spelling variations, hyphenation, frequently confused homonyms, frequently misused words and phrases, irregular plurals and negatives, and uses of capitalization and type style to add special meanings • Punctuation - the role of each mark in achieving clarity and affecting tone, and demonstration of how misuses can lead to ambiguity • Syntax and structure - agreement of subject and verb, parallel construction, modifiers, tenses, pronouns, active versus passive voice, and more • Style - advice on the less hard-and-fast areas of clarity and tone, including sentence length and order, conciseness, simplification, reading level, jargon and clicheÌ s, and subtlety Filled with self-test exercises and whimsical literary quotations, Grammatically Correct steers clear of academic stuffiness, focusing instead on practical strategies and intuitive explanations. Discussions are designed to get to the heart of a concept and provide a sufficient sense of when and how to use it, along with examples that show what ambiguities or misinterpretations might result if the rules are not followed. In cases where there is more than one acceptable way to do something, the approach is not to prescribe one over another but simply to describe the options. Readers of this book will never break the rules of language again - unintentionally.

Fabulous Science
Fabulous Science

Author: John Waller

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-03-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0191578533

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The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' genetics. Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein's general relativity was only 'confirmed' in 1919 because an eminent British scientist cooked his figures. These are just some of the revelations explored in this book. Drawing on current history of science scholarship, Fabulous Science shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data and not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. It also reveals that the alleged revolutionaries of the history of science were often nothing of the sort. Prodigiously able they may have been, but the epithet of the 'man before his time' usually obscures vital contributions made their unsung contemporaries and the intrinsic merits of ideas they overturned. These distortions of the historical record mostly arise from our tendency to read the present back into the past. But in many cases, scientists owe their immortality to a combination of astonishing effrontery and their skills as self-promoters.