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  • Book cover of Swarm
  • Book cover of On the Wall

    Essays by Judith Tannenbaum and Charles F. Stuckey. Foreword by Judith Tannenbaum. Introduction by Marion Boulton Stroud.

  • Book cover of Soil and Sky
  • Book cover of New Material as New Media

    Based on work produced over the past quarter-century at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, this stunning retrospective highlights the work of Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Chris Burden, Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Venturi, and other outstanding artists. (Fine Arts)

  • Book cover of Sarah Sze at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

    This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of a new work by Sarah Sze (born 1969) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Sze's immense and intricate site-specific works are akin to drawings in space, manipulating architectural spaces to profoundly affect the way they are viewed. This work was installed on three floors of the museum, virally traversing the exhibition spaces and creating a narrative that unfolds as viewers navigate the galleries and experience Sze's reflections on time, exploration of movement and investigation of materials. Each gallery floor presents a singular experience, yet viewing all three spaces is cumulative, akin to experiencing separate acts in a theatrical production. The catalogue illustrates multiple views of each gallery floor. Along with essays by Jonathan Gilmore and Jeffery Kastner, this volume includes a 2011 essay on Sze by the late philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto.

  • Book cover of Design

    Over the course of a 30-year career, graphic designer Takaaki Matsumoto has created award-winning publications for clients that include artists, museums, educational institutions and retailers. In and Out of Design showcases projects-ranging from simple logotypes to museum publications to complex visual communications systems-that presented particular design challenges, and records how a solution was finally arrived at.

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  • Book cover of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program

    The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct houses and other structures for the camp. The architects took as inspiration Maine's indigenous architecture, such as shingle houses and lobster shacks.

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    "'What makes something a work of art?' This is the question that philosopher Arthur C. Danto asked himself after seeing Andy Warhol's Brillo Box at a 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York City. The philosophy of art was not Danto's primary area of inquiry at the time, but Warhol's work prompted him to return to this question over several decades. Danto delivered the previously unpublished lectures presented in this volume at the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Kippy's Kamp, on Mount Desert Island, Maine, from 1997 through 2009. They explain the ideas that he set forth in professional philosophical papers and books ... which described his philosophy of art. Informal yet deeply thought-provoking, these lecture explore how Danto has analyzed art through a philosophical lens, yielding an approach that different from most other contemporary art criticism. Danto's though on art go beyond formal analysis and taste judgments, instead focusing on questions about the nature of art and attempting to define what a work of art is. These lectures present some of his most notable ideas in terms that those with no training in philosophy can understand."-- tiré de la jaquette.

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