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Art and Society 1972–2022–2072

From the Art for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 to Artistic Design Concepts of the Twenty-First Century

by Anton Biebl, Elisabeth Hartung, Tanja Baar, Britto Arts Trust, Michael Buhrs, Alice Creischer, Clémentine Deliss, Maurin Dietrich, Thomas Eller0, Jasmine Ellis1, Rebekka Endler2, Sagal Farah3, Laszlo Glozer4, Anna Heringer5, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz6, Christian Kandzia7, Larissa Kikol8, Christine Sun Kim9, Alexander Kluge0, Jakob Lena Knebl1, Barbara Könches2, Michael Lentz3, Anna-Angela Libal4, Julienne Lorz5, M+M6, Goshka Macuga7, Thomas Mader8, Marny Garcia Mommertz9, Barbara Mundel0, Catherine Nichols1, Angelika Nollert2, Hans Ulrich Obrist3, Britta Peters4, Raumfragen Neuperlach5, raumlaborberlin6, Lorena Herrera Rashid7, Hanno Rauterberg8, Pedro Reyes9, Kay Schiller0, Rüdiger Schöttle1, Mareike Schwarz2, Elisabeth Spieker3, Daniela Stöppel4, Heinz Schütz5, Tobias Staab6, Matthias Stadler7, Gerfried Stocker8, Jana Kerima Stolzer9, Corinna Thierolf0, Joanna Warsza1, Manfred Weihe2, Susanne Witzgall3, Miriam Zadoff4, Cao Yu5, Lucas Zwirner6, Studio Pandan, Berlin7 ...

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin, ... Read more

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Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin,
... Read more
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The Clarity

A Novel

by Keith Thomas ...

Narrated by Robin Eller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 30 min

For fans of Black Mirror and True Detective, a visceral, high-concept thriller about a psychologist who must protect the life of an eleven-year-old girl whose ability to remember past lives makes them both targets of a ruthless assassin.Dr. Matilda Deacon is a psychologist researching how memories are made and stored when she meets a strange eleven-year-old girl named Ashanique. The girl claims to ... Read more

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For fans of Black Mirror and True Detective, a visceral, high-concept thriller about a psychologist who must protect the life of an eleven-year-old girl whose ability to remember past lives makes them both targets of a ruthless assassin.Dr. Matilda Deacon is a psychologist researching how memories are made and stored when she meets a strange eleven-year-old girl named Ashanique. The girl claims to
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Daughter of Union County, The

A Novel

by Francine Thomas Howard ...

Narrated by Robin Eller ...

Unabridged

15 hours 19 min

A mother’s devotion. A daughter’s search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post–Civil War South.In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, she’s been born into a ... Read more

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A mother’s devotion. A daughter’s search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post–Civil War South.In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled parents in the finest house in Arkansas. Unknown to the light-skinned, blue-eyed girl, she’s been born into a
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Mies van der Rohe

A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

by Franz Schulze, Edward Windhorst ...

An "excellent" new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos ( Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and "the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best," while the Christian Science Monitor noted that "Schulze has both the gift of an ... Read more

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An "excellent" new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos ( Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and "the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best," while the Christian Science Monitor noted that "Schulze has both the gift of an
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When Clothes Become Fashion

Design and Innovation Systems

by Ingrid Loschek ...

When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from ... Read more

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When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from
... Read more
An Introduction to Architectural Theory

1968 to the Present

by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

$37.00 USD

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of
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Art of the 20th century

by Dorothea Eimert ...

The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of ... Read more

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The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of
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Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

by Claire Zimmerman ...

One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception, as architecture in the twentieth century was enlisted as a form of mass communication.Claire ... Read more

$25.99 USD

One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception, as architecture in the twentieth century was enlisted as a form of mass communication.Claire
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Topographies of Class

Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin

by Sabine Hake ...

Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which ... Read more

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In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which
... Read more
Bauhaus Construct

Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei ...

Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and ... Read more

$68.99 USD

Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and
... Read more
Claiming Homes

Confronting Domicide in Rural China

by Charlotte Bruckermann ...

Series Book 26 - Dislocations
Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process
... Read more
Machine Art in the Twentieth Century

by Andreas Broeckmann ...

Series series Leonardo
An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's ... Read more

$28.99 USD

An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's
... Read more

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