Arkitektur og design

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the significance of ecology and conservation.

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge.

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and art.

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

Along with practical step-by-step sequences and finished examples, this compelling book is both a practical and inspirational guide to a technique that frees artists to express themselves and capture a moment. - Mark making - Composition - Light - Scale and horizon - Atmosphere and expression - Developing your style

New abstract works by Adam Pendleton that expand the language of Black Dada, both visually and spatiallyThrough his dynamic paintings and text-based works, Black Dada pioneer Adam Pendleton (born 1984) continually focuses on the intersection between Blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. An Abstraction is both a document and an evolution of Pendleton's first solo show at Pace's New York gallery in 10 years, epitomizing his "[fight] for the right to exist in and through abstraction." Comprised of 12 paintings and 13 drawings from the artist's Black Dada and Untitled (Days) bodies of work, hanging within a monumental, site-specific architecture consisting of five black triangular forms, An Abstraction reorders the gallery into new, unexpected spaces. Each new work also features a typographic letter from the phrase "Black Dada," thus creating a new pictorial language for the movement.

Exquisite works of contemporary Asian calligraphy and the written wordFeaturing more than 30 artists, Line, Form, Qi highlights contemporary works that range from the traditional to the deeply experimental. The publication features predominantly Chinese artists, along with Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean artists working mainly with Chinese characters. The themes reflect significant trends and innovations in contemporary calligraphic art, including abstraction of the character, performance and phenomenological practice, and the exploration of alternative or nontraditional materials and calligraphy methods such as incense burn drawing and lithography. This publication also addresses different through lines from premodern calligraphy to contemporary practice, reflecting the evolution of the Chinese language from pictograph to ideograph and beyond. This book was published in conjunction with Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The first retrospective monograph for a legendary feminist artist and pedagogue who taught generations of artists at CalArtsAccompanying the first retrospective exhibition showcasing three decades of work from Millie Wilson (born 1948), this publication delves into the influential, yet under-recognized, artist and educator whose work has deftly examined feminism, queerness and their historical erasure from art institutions. Her work joins 1980s postmodernism with the personally and politically charged conceptualism of the 1990s, reflecting a particularly unruly conception of queerness that emerged in California during these decades. The catalog highlights Wilson's appropriation of museum display practices and institutional authority, her art historical references to Dada and Surrealism, her sharp attention to gendered portrayals of sexual deviance in early 20th-century psychoanalysis and sexology, and her long-standing interest in bodies as contested sites. It also features newly commissioned scholarly essays by curator David Evans Frantz and scholar Jill H. Casid, a conversation among artists who studied with Wilson, and extensive new photographic documentation of Wilson's work. This book was published in conjunction with Krannert Art Museum

"The struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life's meaning." -- Erica Rutherford Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works accompanies a career-spanning retrospective exhibition of this multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer. An artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford's remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before settling on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency. This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of more than 60 paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford's widow, artist Ambika Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford's stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art. Says editor and curator Pan Wendt, "In retrospect, Rutherford's work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse."

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the ground. How did we build the expressway world in the first place? And what are we going to do now with it now? This eye-opening book explores these questions partly through the great expressway abolitions of recent years, such as Boston's Central Artery (buried and covered by a park) and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon (replaced with an artificial river). But the book also uncovers the hidden stories of expressways that have become weird attractions in their own right, from London's Westway to São Paulo's Minhocão, celebrated in art and literature. Above all, the book proposes, counterintuitively, that we find ways to live with the expressway world and to adapt it to a different future, inspired by the many examples where people have already reinvented this challenging legacy on their own terms. Engaging with case studies across the world and recent thinking in the environmental humanities and architectural theory, this is a thought-provoking invitation to reconsider the most maligned structures of the recent urban past.

The famous artist and cartoonist Norman Thelwell's guide on how to draw horses and ponies. Full of tips and advice from an expert.

"Drawing has an established history within medicine for learning, recording, investigating and discovery. Bringing together diverse drawing approaches in the form of research and practical projects, this book demonstrates how drawing has extended beyond the realm of medicine with relevance and value for an array of health and wellbeing settings. Chapters critically examine how drawing helps us convey and understand complex illness experiences, and supports a deeper, more holistic form of communication between patient and professional. This book presents the underlying principle that manual drawing, such as sketching, diagrams, cartoons and other forms of mark-making, has important qualities in enabling people to investigate, explain, express and alleviate suffering"--

The first book to focus on design, modernity and modern living in Asia, edited by two well-established UK-based academics.