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This companion publication to a marvelous exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art (from April 6 through June 30, 2002) presents a selection of Eudora Welty's black-and-white photographs taken in the 1930s and shows how this acclaimed writer's second career as a photographer produced works that rank favorably with the visual art of her contemporaries.

More than just a chronicle, this book features Welty among artists of her Deep South region (Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe, William Hollingsworth Jr., Marie Hull, John McCrady, and Karl Wolfe) and from the nation...

Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas--the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.

This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting...

This stunning book features some twenty portraits of distinguished and selected design firms from all over the world. Their spectacular designs for bars, nightclubs, discos and dance clubs are presented, revealing the wide spectrum of creativity. A ten-page profile is dedicated to each design firm and full business details are included.

Seit dem Autohaus Car & Driver steht die Marke BRT uber Deutschland hinaus fur im Detail wie in der Dimension beeindruckende Bauwerke, die das Publikum emotional gefangen nehmen oder visionar provozieren. Dieser Band zeigt ebenso labyrinthische wie systematische Raumerfindungen im Burobau, visionare Assoziationen an Ufos, urbane Schauplatze und Identitatspunkte des offentlichen Lebens.

This guide describes the Villa La Roche as well as the Villa Jeanneret, seat of the Fondation Le Corbusier.

Faksimile-Ausgabe (Frazosisch) eines Grundlagenwerkes der Architekturgeschichte von Le Corbusier

A fundamental work in the history of architecture - as a beautiful facsimile edition.

Ein informativer und handlicher Le Corbusier-Fuhrer: die Klosteranlage Sainte Marie de La Tourette bei Lyon (1953-1960), ein Meisterwerk der modernen Sakralarchitektur.

Das Buch stellt 18 Projekte von Valode & Pistre ausfuhrlich dar, wobei die spezifische Arbeitsweise und die Entwurfsmethoden im Mittelpunkt der Dokumentation stehen. Zu den vorgestellten Projekten gehoren u.a das Renault-Technozentrum in Guyancourt, Frankreich, der Buropark Cristalia in Madrid, Spanien, ein Buro- und Hotelturm in Peking, China und ein Handelszentrum in Sankt Petersburg, Russland.

The Mississippi Story invites readers to examine the connection between place and the visual arts of the state. Based on an exhibition from the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, this book explores artwork produced within the state by artists who were native to or lived in Mississippi or by travelers who created work about the state.

Patti Carr Black presents the overall theme of place in four sections: the influence of the land on the art, Mississippi's people as depicted in its art, life in Mississippi as observed by its artists, and the exporting of...

The first comprehensive publication about the history, present and future of a design firm with more to offer than just chairs. The book offers an inside look at the firm s collaboration with architects and designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Herzog and de Meuron."

Christoph Mackler's architecture is distinguished by its reconciliation of tradition and modernity. Mackler seeks to reconnect architecture with its premodern roots. A pivotal role in his efforts is played by the restoration of surface and volume in the facade and the understanding of the building's material properties