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| Friday, February 27, 2009 | |
 | Peter Stämpli, signed monography This study by Daniel Abadie analyzes the work of the artist with its relationship with the international artistic currents and shows the complexity of a work which drives us from the pop-art to the geometrical abstraction, but the object of which remains unique : the tire and its structure...(view more...) |
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | |
 | "Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces" by Robert Shaw Bringing elements of their Polynesian heritage to the American quilt, nineteenth-century Hawaiians created a distinctive and beautiful craft that is still actively practiced throughout the islands. From the early influences of missionaries and traders, to annexation by the United States and subsequent statehood, to the current concerns of today’s quiltmakers, "Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces" includes an incomparable collection. (view more...) |
| Friday, February 20, 2009 | |
 | Alexander Calder, CALDER This book redraws the development of the work of Calder, including the least known aspects such as the bronze or in wire sculptures, gouaches and lithographs.(view more...) |
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 | |
 | "Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey" by Jim Reed Issues of global warming continue to be relevant, and every day brings front-page stories about the weather, generating new research, raising even more questions and possible solutions. "Storm Chaser" is a mesmerizing look at some of the catastrophic consequences of our planet's increasing temperature, captured by an expert in the field. Through breathtaking photos, quotes, letters, and journal entries from climatologists, researchers, political leaders, spiritual advisors, and storm survivors. "Storm Chaser" chronicles photographer Jim Reed's most thrilling, beautiful, memorable, and dramatic adventures to date. From extraordinary tornadoes to historic hurricanes, remarkable floods, geomagnetic storms, and magnificent lightning, Reed captures not only the mercilessness of America's sometimes deadly weather, but also the magnificence and meaning behind the tempests.(view more...) |
| Monday, February 16, 2009 | |
 | "Understanding Close-up Photography" by Bryan Peterson In "Understanding Close-up Photography" Bryan Peterson turns his attention to a topic that is an ongoing favorite with photographers. But where most macro photography books focus on capuring subjects in nature, Peterson promises to go beyond, teaching you to photograph a range of subjects from animals and plants from the garden, beach, or mountains to objects found in the kitchen, supermarket, even the junkyard. In addition to information on equipment, exposure, light, and composition, his book will feature elements of technique that go beyond the norm, teaching you to shoot not just what is generally considered close-up, but to go even closer to the point of abstraction. (view more...) |
| Friday, February 13, 2009 | |
 | Jan Fabre, Je marche pendant 7 jours et 7 nuits Jan Fabre is Flemish, artist, director, author and he has concocted a poem in metaphoric prose which puts cheerfully in abyss his doubts and metaphysical anxieties: "to make its own ball asks patience and difficult work, to steal one already made is much easier …" The work inserted into the book is exactly in the form of ball and is conceived from natural elements, from earth, from twigs and from spices. (view more...) |
| Friday, February 06, 2009 | |
 | Jannis Kounellis, La Perdita del punto di vista This provocative spirit which animates all the work of Jannis Kounellis is once again expressed in The Perdita del punto di vista, text that he wrote for the collection "L'Art en écrit"(Jannink Publishers). The most radical member of the Povera Arte wonders about the brevity of the life and the impossibility to paint it entirely; he takes us in a journey through the mythology, the antique civilizations and through its own artistic interrogation. Kounellis works with simple materials such as the iron, the fire, the cotton, the wood, the hessian, ...and as for the work inserted into the book, the lead.(view more...) |
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