The Use of Oxygen-Free Environments in the Control of Museum Insect Pests
ISBN: 9780892366934 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments, presenting a detailed, hands-on guide to the use of oxygen-free environments in the eradication of museum insect pests. This volume discusses the use of nitrogen as the inert gas used to replace oxygen, and the use of a few specific types of containers as treatment chambers. An initial chapter explains the general advantages anoxia offers museum conservators. Subsequent chapters discuss...
Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theor...
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299,72 zł |
Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report
ISBN: 9780955309229 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here, and Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report, by Sarah Jacobs, use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome. The Report is an ebook which contains links to over 240 websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16 ( Vol. 432. December 2004). Its contents change over time as the websites change, migrate or disappear. It is available as a FREE...
Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here, and Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report, by Sarah Jacobs, use text in a visual way t...
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212,64 zł |
Start Your Engines: Surface Vehicle Sketches & Renderings from the Drawthrough Collection
ISBN: 9781933492131 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,76 zł |
Abstraktion Und Einfühlung
ISBN: 9781933354705 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Everett's talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison."--"Publishers Weekly"
"I think Percival Everett is a genius. . . . He's a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him."--Terry McMillan Chris Abani has developed his groundbreaking Black Goat poetry series with exciting and provocative new voices. Here, Percival Everett proves that his fine literary talents move far beyond the realm of the novel. Percival Everett is the author of fifteen novels, among them "The Water Cure," "Erasure," and "Glyph."... "Everett's talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison."--"Publishers Week...
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78,97 zł |
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
ISBN: 9780981484600 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of imperfect beauty to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete . . .. . . wabi-sabi could even be called the Zen of things, as it exemplifies many of Zen's core spiritual-philosophical tenets . . .Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values...
This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of imperfect beauty to the West. Text, images, and book design se...
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87,77 zł |
Floss+art
ISBN: 9781906496180 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon. Topics include: digital art licensing, copying and distributing under open content models, the influence of FLOSS on digital art practices, the use of free software to produce art and the art of producing free software, FLOSS as an embedded political message in digital art, paradoxes and limitations of open licenses for digital art, FLOSS as a way to quote and embed...
FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the so...
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203,40 zł |
Exodyssey: Visual Development of an Epic Adventure by Steambot Studios
ISBN: 9781933492391 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing over 400 original colour works by cutting edge entertainment designers, this title gives a unique insight into how breathtaking environments are brought to life, from development sketches to finished article.
Containing over 400 original colour works by cutting edge entertainment designers, this title gives a unique insight into how breathtaking environment...
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175,76 zł |
Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art
ISBN: 9780300159028 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation--the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories into the present--as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of emerging artists working in a variety of media, including Ronnie Bass, Kajsa Dahlberg, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Fikret Atay, Katerina Seda, Maryam Jafri, and Johanna Billing, as well as films by Keren Cytter, Kevin Willmott, and Jennifer Phang, the book challenges the conventional approach to history whereby the past is kept at a... This engaging publication explores the artistic practices that employ evocation--the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and mem... |
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59,89 zł |
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010
ISBN: 9780300149289 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are case studies by seven artists and two artist teams--Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Yael Bartana, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Emre Huner, Andrea Geyer, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy Raven, and Santiago Sierra. While some of these artists explore historical and symbolic configurations of space, others parse the... This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urb... |
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190,73 zł |
Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle
ISBN: 9780822345008 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received. Much of this correspondence is published here for the first time, providing an epistolary history of Schneemann and other figures central to the international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, performance, and conceptual art. Schneemann corresponded for more than forty years with such figures as the composer James Tenney, the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, the artist Dick Higgins, the dancer and filmmaker Yvonne...
Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the ...
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553,94 zł |
Liam Gillick
ISBN: 9783940953407 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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438,12 zł |
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
ISBN: 9780822370536 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production-from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.
Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production-from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phen...
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113,84 zł |
Writing Art and Architecture
ISBN: 9780980819700 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others. In Benjamin's hands, criticism is bound up with...
In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predomi...
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109,99 zł |
Places
ISBN: 9781933492599 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author believes that for artists and designers, images are born from the experiences one observes during the first 10-15 years of their lives. Those images are subconsciously refined over and over in one's life. They may consist of shapes, or places, or films ...but they always stay present in the back of the memory.
The author believes that for artists and designers, images are born from the experiences one observes during the first 10-15 years of their lives. Tho...
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Valentin Carron
ISBN: 9783037642047 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valentin Carron's sculptures mark a three-dimensional renewal of appropriationism, through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are neither authentic nor kitsch. His objects play with the ambiguities of fake wood, concrete and bronze, and with the iconography of power and authority in public sculptures or commemorative monuments. This volume offers an overview.
Valentin Carron's sculptures mark a three-dimensional renewal of appropriationism, through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are neither auth...
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127,58 zł |
Archaeologies of Presence
ISBN: 9780415557665 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions: What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence? How is presence achieved through theatrical performance? What makes a memory come alive and live again? How is presence connected with identity? Is presence synonymous with 'being in the...
Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performanc...
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698,90 zł |
Structura2: The Art of Sparth
ISBN: 9781933492667 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, has been an active Artistic Director and Concept Designer for the gaming industry for over 15 years. In Structura 2, he delights us with what he has been imagining for the last three years since the release of his first best selling book, Structura. This visually stunning book includes images from video games DUNE, Assassin's Creed, Rage, and Halo, over fifteen new gorgeous books covers and never before published personal science fiction pieces that will have your imagination running to the future! Not to ignore the past, Sparth also shares his world of fantasy... Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, has been an active Artistic Director and Concept Designer for the gaming industry for over 15 years. In Structura 2, he d... |
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197,76 zł |
The Daily Zoo Goes to Paris
ISBN: 9781933492797 / Angielski / Twarda / 63 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,77 zł |
Maurizio Cattelan: All
ISBN: 9780892075317 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated edition of the definitive monograph on Maurizio Cattelan--provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times The Guggenheim Museum's sold-out publication Maurizio Cattelan: All is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in contemporary art--most notoriously -The Ninth Hour- (1999), a sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Derived from popular culture, history and organized religion, Cattelan's subjects range... An updated edition of the definitive monograph on Maurizio Cattelan--provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times The... |
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219,98 zł |
Marcel Broodthaers
ISBN: 9781938922299 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. This career began in 1964, following a period of more than two decades laboring in some obscurity as a poet in the Belgian Surrealist circle of Rene Magritte (a crucial mentor for Broodthaers) and Paul Nouge. He also wrote articles on art during these years, including early critiques of Pop art. Broodthaers' first exhibition, held that year in Brussels, was accompanied by a now-famous announcement: -I, too, asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in...
Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most artists manage in a lifetime. This career began in 19...
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329,96 zł |