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Explore the rich history of Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood in this guided tour through their most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

A stunning collection of photographs of London's Art Deco buildings. Look through these photographs and you will quickly see the appeal of this stylish era of the 1920s and 1930s in the metropolis.

Die informelle Kunst entwickelte sich vom Beginn der 1950er- bis zu den frühen 1960er-Jahren zu der vorherrschenden Kunstrichtung in Europa. Der kunsthistorische Blick auf diese von klassischen Form- und Gestaltungsprinzipien losgelöste Kunstrichtung fokussierte sich bislang meist auf ihre männlichen Vertreter. Der Band wirft nun einen neuen Blick auf die Kunst des Informel und würdigt hochkarätige Positionen von 16 Künstlerinnen. Neben bekannten Namen wie Maria Lassnig, Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, Judit Reigl und Maria Helena Vieira da Silva werden lang vergessene Künstlerinnen wiederentdeckt. Anhand von kunstsoziologischen Fragen zu Netzwerken, Ausstellungsbeteiligungen und zur Rezeption wird zudem den Mechanismen des Kunstbetriebs nachgespürt. Vergessene künstlerische Positionen der 50er und 60er Jahre Neue Galerie Kassel, 11.10.2024 - 26.1.2025 Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, 20.2.2025 - 22.6.2025 weitere Station: Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen Blick ins Buch

The sanctuary at Kavos on Keros was discovered in 1963 in the aftermath of looting in the region of the sanctuary now designated the Special Deposit North. From 2006-2008, excavations in the Special Deposit South (now fully published in Volumes II and III of the present series), clarified the nature of the deposits and the materials found there. This volume publishes the sculptural fragments from the Special Deposit North, recovered in excavations in 1963 and 1967, in a campaign of surface survey and excavation in 1987, and collected by archaeologists over the past six decades, or discovered by locals. The material is better preserved than most of the material from the Special Deposit South, and offers important insights into earlier phases of Cycladic sculpture, monumental sculptures, and sculptures of special type, such as seated or standing figures, including musicians and groups. The present volume completes the publication of the entire sculptural assemblage recovered in approved excavations from the sanctuary at Kavos, and a number of conclusions are offered on the basis of the complete assemblage.

A monograph dedicated to the work of Japanese artist Minami Kobayashi published to coincide with her solo exhibition The Song of Jujubes, at Frestonian Gallery, London.

A monograph dedicated to the work of British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo to coincide with her solo exhibition We Are Briefly Gorgeous at Southwark Park Galleries, London. The publication brings together Labinjo's large-scale figurative paintings made between 2017 and 2024, which capture scenes of joy, leisure and perseverance in everyday life.

The first major monograph on the work of London-based painter Susie Hamilton, featuring an introduction by Charlotte Mullins, an interview by Louisa Buck and an extended essay by Anna McNay. The publication has been edited by Anneka French, designed by Hyperkit, produced by Hurtwood and published by Anomie, London.

A lavishly illustrated look at some of Boston's most historic buildings, now available in a new, updated edition. Winner of the Historic New England Book Prize and a Boston Preservation Alliance Annual Achievement Award.   As Boston fast approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, the city's architecture plays an important role in preserving its historic character. This book introduces readers to the city's early history through fifty buildings, which all pre-date 1800. Employing an approachable narrative that will appeal to non-architects and those new to historic preservation, Joseph M. Bagley guides readers through an overview of the historic preservation movement in Boston before explaining the historical significance of these structures, which include homes, churches, warehouses, and restaurants.   The book begins with a map of the buildings' locations and organizes entries from the oldest to the most recent. The majority of the properties are located within Boston's downtown area, along the Freedom Trail, and within easy walking distance from the core of the city. While this makes the book an ideal guide for tourists, Boston residents will also discover buildings in the surrounding neighborhoods. Each chapter features a building, a story about its history, and the efforts made to preserve it over time. Full­color photos and historical drawings illustrate each structure and area.  Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them presents the ideals of historic preservation in an easy­-to-read manner appropriate for the broadest audience. Perfect for history lovers, architectural enthusiasts, locals, and visitors alike.   This new edition features a foreword by Robert Allison, professor of history, language, and global culture at Suffolk University, and includes three new buildings identified by the author as being amongst the oldest in the city, which illustrates the dynamic nature of archaeology.

A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the French Revolution to the dynamic global intersections of contemporary art in the 21st century, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present provides an unparalleled analysis of French art. Edited by Richard Taws and Natalie Adamson, this authoritative volume offers new ways to consider the broad history of French art through critical attention to diverse objects, mediums, and practices that have shaped French art across centuries. Shedding new light on how art has interacted with and challenged established narratives, this volume features 30 essays by leading and emerging scholars, offering insights into a wide range of topics, including revolutionary iconography, modernist movements, colonial legacies, and contemporary art's engagement with global issues. Going beyond traditional frameworks, these chapters present new methodologies and innovative interpretations that reflect the evolving questions and challenges in art history. Addressing essential themes while expanding the boundaries of how French art is understood today, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present: Offers comprehensive coverage of French art with a uniquely wide topical and temporal scope Examines diverse media and materials including painting, sculpture, photography, film, ceramics, industrial design, and fashion Engages with cutting-edge methodologies such as post-colonial critique and feminist theory Draws on in-depth archival research and previously unexplored materials for fresh insights Essential for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in French art history, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present is also an invaluable resource for academics, museum professionals, and researchers worldwide.

This book serves as a helpful guide for anyone interested in understanding and implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) in developing countries. It focuses on the construction industry and how digital technologies can improve the way buildings and infrastructure projects are planned, designed, and built.

Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, to draw it from the margins, and re-illuminate its importance for cultural history.

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolving phenomenon of gender. It provides new insights through historical research, unpublished and newly translated materials, and contemporary insights from diverse scholars and practitioners.

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolving phenomenon of gender. It provides new insights through historical research, unpublished and newly translated materials, and contemporary insights from diverse scholars and practitioners.

This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.

This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non-white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.

The Gospel of John, in the majestic King James Version, handwritten and illuminated by calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, it brings together the medieval and the modern - handwritten in traditional calligraphic style, and produced using high-quality gouaches, inks and papers.

The collected exhibition essays of Hamza Walker, former director of education at the Renaissance Society. Hamza Walker was director of education at the Renaissance Society for twenty-one years, between 1994 and 2015. During that time, he wrote essays about almost every single exhibition, both those he curated and many others curated by Suzanne Ghez. These texts were published first in the Renaissance Society's newsletters and then eventually on the exhibition posters, which were distributed far more widely.  In the course of this workman-like writing in the service of the institution, Walker developed not only his distinctive personal writing style and a keen eye but also a theory of what museum education could be and do. In his writing, Walker draws on his art's historical knowledge but looks equally to current events (both minutely local and international), insisting on the mutual relevance and related nature of the two. In Walker's own words, "If we're going to live up to the idea that art is for everybody, it needs a set of wider reference points," an emphasis that has arguably shaped the identity of the institution in turn. This book collects those essays together into a volume that celebrates Walker's brilliant, joyful, and generous writing. It also serves as a lively record of two decades of the Renaissance Society's exhibition programming and reflects the prevalent theories, issues, and fashions of the art world during that time, not to mention the events occurring in the wider world.

A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artistThe French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas-joyful and brightly colored monumental sculptures of goddess-like female figures. But her work, which was grounded in her visionary beliefs about social experiments and personal freedom, ranged much more widely-from painting, film, architecture, and books to theater sets, clothing, and jewelry. Niki de Saint Phalle: The Sketchbooks presents a beautiful collection of previously unpublished drawings, notes, and other preparatory work from Saint Phalle's private sketchbooks. Culled from a vast archive of never-before-seen materials, these drawings shed new light on Saint Phalle's fascinating artistic evolution, style, and interior life.

A revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published beforeThe great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art-or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century-than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism. Demonstrating Kandinsky's mastery of color, line, shape, composition, and movement, the book includes notes and preparatory studies for major paintings, such as the "analytical drawing" for Composition VII (1913), the first study for Several Circles (1926), and Study for Composition IX, a preliminary working of his 1936 masterpiece. Visually stunning, the book offers a remarkable, intimate look at how Kandinsky sought to discover nothing less than a spiritually transcendent form of art.

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life. Roman authors saw infinite practical and symbolic value in houses, and they have much to say about them. How to Make a Home presents some of the best Roman writings on houses-from buying and selling to designing and decorating. Edited and elegantly translated by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, How to Make a Home gathers selections by Cicero, Vitruvius, Seneca, and others, with the original Latin or Greek on facing pages. These writings reveal the pleasures and pitfalls of the Roman practice of making one's home a cornerstone of self-expression. While the ideal home enshrined Roman virtues and could make a career, lavish building projects could lead to financial ruin and moral condemnation. These authors memorably describe such travails as deceptive staging, decorators run amok, know-it-all owners, unsupervised contractors, and buyer's remorse. Along the way, they also explain why simplicity is bliss, privacy is for nobodies, a neglected house is a sign of a neglected soul, and much more. A unique and charming introduction to Roman domestic architecture and its cultural significance, How to Make a Home reveals that the obsession with house and home has a long and fascinating history.

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment-built environment model that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment. It covers a wide range of sustainable built-form issues in the local and regional contexts.