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A tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms. The material transformation of an intention in an object is the result of a meeting between a designer and a craftsman, between know-how and project. The French know-how societies were born from Colbertism and closely associated with the evolution of French society, accompanying the major sociological changes. In the 19th century, they were adopted by a middle class that demanded to gain a status hitherto reserved for the aristocracy. Their heritage and archives are immense, as is their know-how. They contributed to the century to the extent that they regenerated their forces and raison d'être: a transmission implemented by today's creators. This book will not be a mere catalogue but is instead intended as a tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms which have succeeded in reinventing themselves in contact with designers and the unceasing challenges they face. Retracing the history of the most prestigious of these and highlighting their capacity to reinvent themselves by tackling the proposals formulated by the meltingpot of French designers, this volume will also aim to reveal and stress the unique qualities of craftsmanship. Transmission, Know-how and French design will be a must for graphic and fashion designers, marketing professionals, collectors and students.

Suitable as a tool for a deeper understanding of the multifaceted reality of Asian visual arts, this catalogue presents the works of twenty-one of Asia's most important contemporary artists who have made their mark on the international contemporary art scene in the fields of photography, video and film.

A volume testifying to an initiative that nurtures artistic talent worldwide, recognizing fresh art and helping launch the careers of emerging artists.

One hundred portraits of celebrities by the talented and renowned Italian photographer.

We have been walking upright for almost six million years and soon learned how to offload our bodys weight on the arch of the foot. The author has dedicated all his life to the study of the foots anatomy. This volume is based on the comparison among magnificent, important and meaningful artworks of various origin.

This two volume edition presents an overview of mosaics through which Jan Fabre has created a great epic on terror in beauty as a reflection on our own dark being.

The art of the Pollaiolo brothers, protagonists of the 15th-century artistic scene, in a volume accompanying the exhibition that gathers for the first time the four Portraits of a lady from Milan, Berlin, New York and Florence.

The first monograph devoted to Lahore-based artist Fahd Burki, covering a decade of his unique works on paper.

Offers an overview on the development of British painting in the eighteenth century, which anticipated themes, and techniques that later became paradigms of modernity. This book focuses on the English context at a time when the growth of artistic standing was accompanied by the country's conquest of hegemony on a political and economic plane.

The fifth volume of the Eye series, dedicated to contemporary art from the Far East, focuses on a unique and exciting selection of emerging Malaysian artists. The book provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary art in Malaysia, showcasing 75 of the most cutting-edge Malaysian contemporary artists and their works.

What are the connections between sounds and abstract images? What were the first audiovisual instruments? How did music influence Kandinsky's work? What are the most significant audiovisual installations? What relationship is there between VJs and live cinema? And finally, what is synesthesia? Visual Music Masters thoroughly explores past and present research to answer these and many other questions about the relationship between music and abstract art. Covering figures that range from Toulouse-Lautrec to Nam June Paik, from Händel to Xenakis, and from Fischinger to Ikeda, this book illustrates the stages by which the artistic community has embraced the latest technologies and a multi-sensory universe, creating in the process an independent form of expression: visual music. Adriano Abbado has been working with electronic music since 1975 and with digital art since 1981, and earned a MS from MIT's Media Laboratory in 1988. He taught Computer Graphics at Milan's Istituto Europeo di Design, Electronic Music at Turin's Conservatory, and Audiovisual Art at UC Santa Barbara. His interests span from traditional Asian music to astrophotography to online trading. His works have been shown in Barcelona, Chicago, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Venice and Washington DC.

The first major monograph devoted to the Tunisian artist, from the earliest works to the present day.

Hanne Tyrmi's new sculptures and installations as well as a number of works realised during the last 15 years.

This book on Virginia Dwan and her galleries in Los Angeles and New York tells for the first time the unique story of a fundamental actor on the global art scene, which has rarely been explored.

A photographic journey through the beautiful landscapes of Greece, its people and traditions by the Greek photographer Calliope.

The enchanting world of the Syrian Bedouins through the lens of the Japanese photographer Megumi Yoshitake, who has often travelled to Syria in the last seventeen years.

Wang Guangyi's art is significant not only in China but across the world: this book investigates his artistic path from a new perspective.

The story of the activities undertaken by Marco Facchinetti and Marco Dellavalle over the last ten years in the spheres of sustainable architecture and urban planning.

The leading movements, major figures, works and ideas that shaped the architecture of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millennium ¿ in all, one of the richest and most complex periods in human history.

Controversial cult artist, enfant terrible of the art world, friend of Haring and Warhol, and both idol and a victim of the art scene of the '80s-Jean-Michel Basquiat was a legend in his own lifetime. This catalog, published in conjunction with the major retrospective at the Lugano Museum of Modern Art, provides an excellent overview of Basquiat's life and work. As an African-American painter, Basquiat has made a significant impact on the history of contemporary art. From his origins as a street graffiti artist, he became one of the most influential artists of his time: in 2005 his work is being celebrated in seperate exhibitions in the US and Europe. As emblems of the contemporary world, his explosive, colorful, and apparently naef canvases have an unparalleled force. The brief but intense artistic career of this celebrated proponent of the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s is covered through some fifty paintings and twenty works on paper drawn from prestigious private collections and museums. This book offers a new intense dialogue with the more modern expressions of twentieth-century art.

The extraordinary technologic innovations and revolutionary machines from the collection of the Leonardo Museum in Vinci. This beautifully illustrated volume discovers the multiple interests of Leonardo the technologist, the architect, the man of science and, more generally, the history of Renaissance techniques.

La monografia celebra il lavoro di Agostino Bonalumi degli anni '60 e '70 attraverso oltre 30 opere dell'artista, tra cui Bianco (1964) del Museu Coleçao Berardo di Lisbona, esposte insieme a lavori di Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Paolo Scheggi. Oltre a un'ampia ricostruzione storico-critica del suo percorso di questi decenni e circa 180 immagini tra opere e documenti, la monografia pubblica una selezione di suoi testi d'epoca, un'intervista inedita a lui realizzata per l'occasione e una prima mappatura iconografica estesa di circa trenta lavori di Bonalumi presenti nelle istituzioni museali di tutto il mondo, dalla Collezione Peggy Guggenheim di Venezia al Walker Art Center di Minneapolis.