Life in Tehran proliferates and thrives in its interiors. When public space is policed and controlled, domestic interiors become art galleries, clubs, cultural centers, factories and offices. Interiors cease to be the exclusive domain for individual life and family matters; homes become the spaces in which new forms of collective life are explored and nurtured, and the battleground for social...

Alfred Neumann (1900-1968) was a Czech architect whose work was wrought in the context of postwar modernism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Today, his influence and impact have been largely forgotten, but, in their time, Neumann's original designs received praise and elicited controversy in almost equal measure, offering exciting new possibilities to the modernist...

This book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.

This book presents an intimate story of English sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) at work. Hepworth's granddaughter, Sophie Bowness, draws on Hepworth's correspondence and family memories and records to offer the first study devoted to Hepworth's studio in the English seaside town of St. Ives in Cornwall. The book illuminates the ways in which the place and Hepworth's work were bound...

Over 2,000 years of settlement give London its unique architectural heritage. Unlike Haussmann's Paris, neither monarch nor politician imposed their will; private ownership and enterprise shaped the city and defined its parts. Elegant West End squares and crescents hallmark the Classical townscape that emerged between 1600 and 1830, but medieval, Tudor and Victorian enclaves identified by...

MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the -greater- aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an...

Six Vessantara Jataka picture scrolls are published in full length for the first time, while in-depth essays explore a contemporary multimedia celebration of an ancient Buddhist text.

MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the -greater- aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an...

Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (born 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents and futures exist concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, curated by Mia Locks and organized by MoMA PS1, Golden presented her largest installation to date, filling the double height of MoMA PS1's Duplex Gallery with...

Housing Solutions through Design explores housing design with a special focus on affordability. It gives the perspectives of academics who research and teaching on housing; professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The book foregrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and tomorrow. This book is the second in the Housing the Future Series, one of the...

An essay with pictures and some texts about the city and the not-yet-city, the landscape left to its fate, and how the popular monument can rebuild a new equilibrium.

Olaf Breuning: Drawings offers a comprehensive catalog of the drawings of Swiss-born, New York-based artist Olaf Breuning (born 1970) made over the past 20 years. Described by Roberta Smith as -the joking sculptor, - Breuning is known for his videos, sculptures, installations and photo-collages which explore kitsch, cliche and popular culture in deliberately eclectic processes and forms....

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the...

This coloring book for adults and children, is designed to spark creative ideas. There is no right or wrong way to explore Color Me A Story. Free your mind and let it wander wherever your ideas and thoughts take you. Let your creative energy take you on a beautiful journey. Writing prompts can help you improve your writing as well as come up with fun new story ideas Color Me A Story, a coloring...

158 18. Instances of absence of imagination.--Claude, Gaspar Poussin. 158 19. Its presence.--Salvator, Nicolo Poussin, Titian, Tintoret. 159 20. And Turner. 160 21. The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature. 161 22. The sign of imaginative work is its appearance of absolute truth. 161 CHAPTER III. --Of Imagination Penetrative. 1. Imagination penetrative is concerned not...

Notebook with 150 lined pages, 6" x 9." Glossy softcover, perfect for everyday use. Perfectly spaced between lines to allow plenty of room to write. Wild Pages Press are publishers of unique journals, school exercise books, college or university lecture pads, memo books, notebooks, journals and travel journals that are a little bit quirky and different. Stunning covers, sturdy for everyday use....