Man Ray: "This is Man Ray"
The book "This is Man Ray" proposes two conferences of the artist, fascinating and unpublished, held in France and in the United States in ten years of interval (in 1956 and 1966). Man Ray describes his debuts in Paris, his determining meetings, his life, his links with Dada and the Surrealism, and evokes his artistical process. (bilingual English-French)
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Louise Bourgeois, "He disappeared into complete silence"
Louise Bourgeois created "He Disappeared into Complete Silence" in 1947, at the beginning of her career, two years after her first personal exhibition. This dense, magnificent and very rare book because printed initially in about ten copies, contains nine engravings of the artist with a brief narrative text. Texts invented by Louise Bourgeois are short and surprising stories looking a bit like haïkus.
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"Mirrored"- Maslen & Mehra
"The Body and the Arts" focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.
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"Body and the Arts" by Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, Ulrika Maude
"The Body and the Arts" focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.
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"The Architecture of Happiness" by Alain de Botton
The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450—1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist's spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch's inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, "The Last Judgment", found by the author in Cairo in the mid-1930s.
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"The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch" by Kurt Falk
The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450—1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works, "The Last Judgment", found by the author in Cairo in the mid-1930s.
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"History of the Future" by Goodman Donna
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue between technology and design began to emerge.
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