The first appearances of graffiti 'tags' (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement progressed and tags became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity and unconventional media captured the attention of the world. Featuring gallery and street works by several...

Homesteading is a lifestyle that people around the world gravitate toward-and for good reason. In today's high-stress world, many people dream of heading off to their own cabin in the woods or to their large rural oasis to escape the anxieties and complexities of daily life, to live in a more natural state. Others have embraced the agricultural lifestyle of farming as a career, serving as fundamental contributors to sustaining society. With this...

Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well-lived, a collage of boldface names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write "of [Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother's escort, I have little recollection" and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while...

The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of the most renowned works of the era along with illuminating...

Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann's re-figuring of the city, with its unrelenting straight boulevards, stirring vistas and uniform buildings, create a 'mass produced' image of Paris? If so, who benefited - and...

Inaugurée au musée André-Malraux du Havre en septembre 2002, puis transportée à la Galleria d'Arte moderna de Turin au printemps 2003, l'exposition Perret, la poétique du béton a été présentée au début de l'année 2004 au palais de la Porte Dorée à Paris (qui accueille provisoirement l'In... À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia...

Despina Stratigakos is associate professor and interim chair of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of Hitler at Home and A Woman's Berlin: Building the Modern City. A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared....

This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto. This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts. The book also includes an analysis of the bathers' course by Pedro Vieira de Almeida, as well as testimonies of the architects...

L'exposition qui s'est tenue au Centre Pompidou-Metz entre le 3 avril et le 14 septembre 2015, est à plus d'un titre historique. Il s'agit de la première exposition de cette ampleur consacrée à l'auteur, poète, ethnographe, écrivain d'art, actif militant antiraciste et anticolonialiste... À PROPOS DE L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue mondialement pour la qualité et la fiabilité incomparable de ses publications, Encyclopaedia Universalis...

L'exploration des interstices Autour de la Baie: au départ le simple thème d'une manifestation d'art contemporain, l'expression est prise au pied de la lettre par Damien Dion, qui propose une épopée à la découverte de la baie de Morlaix. Explorant les interstices entre les registres cartographiques et la géographie réelle, l'artiste arpente et redessine les limites du territoire à échelle humaine, dans un récit textuel et photographique....