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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.

Jan Fabre's multi-faceted oeuvre, in a richly-illustrated volume including all his work from the start of his career to the present.

The first monograph devoted to this Italian architect and designer, exploring his twenty-year career.

A new privileged point of view, an original, all-round take on the evolution of Fontana's oeuvre through his complete graphic work.

A richly illustrated monograph dedicated to one of the most attractive and influential figures of contemporary creation.

An extraordinary photographic journey through disappearing African cultures.

The presigious catalogue following the first solo exhibition of the artist in Italy at Fondazione Mudima.

A collection of Kata Legrady's graphic work unveiling the intimate world behind her oeuvres.

The largest monograph devoted to the work of Chen Zhen, including all his currently known works and the fullest information on the Chinese artist.

Celebrates the 50th anniversary of Scavolini Cucine.

Sculptures, paintings and other art objects by one of the most original Young British Artists in an unparalleled exhibition catalogue.

Alexander Rodchenko was one of the main generators of creative ideas during the extraordinary time of the Russian avant-garde movements, and he perfectly reflected its spiritual atmosphere.

LaFerrari: the last masterpiece realized by the worldwide famous Italian brand.

An up-to-date monograph devoted to the Moroccan contemporary artist, among the most creative of his generation.

This volume explores the principal trends of modern and contemporary art in Iraq, through some 400 works in the private collection of Hussain Ali Harba, an Iraqi architect and designer.