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	Artwise Paris Laminated Museum Map (Streetwise Maps) Artwise Paris Museum Map - Laminated Museum Map of Paris, FR - Streetwise MapsThis map covers the following areas:Main Paris Map 1:14,000Monmartre Map 1:9,600Paris Metro MapParis Museum IndexSometimes the briefest suggestion from a knowledgeable source can make the difference between an average and a great experience. Travel to Paris, France equipped with the ARTWISE® Paris Museum Map and your knowledge of the cultural life of Paris will be transformed.For example, the amazing Marmottan museum ...
	Yinka Shonibare, MBE Shonibare employs a wide range of media sculpture, painting,photography, video, and installation pieces to explorematters of race, class, cultural identity, and history. The artist isbest-known for his use of a Dutch-wax fabric, which, thoughlabeled as African, actually originated in Dutch Indonesia andwas introduced to Africa by British manufacturers via Dutchcolonizers in the nineteenth century. Incorporating the fabricinto Victorian dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures withit or stre...
	Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene in the early 1920s with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. He also applied his talent for composition to the commercial world, introducing an artist's sensibility to advertisements for men's haberdashery, glassware, and JELL-O for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. An early master of the technically complex carbro color process, he used it to photograph nudes, often sh...
	Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development....
	Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture. The title itself refers to H. G. Wells’s eponymous novel which envisioned the future and was a surprisingly accurate prophecy reflecting the author’s own time. That book inspired Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a great mono...
	Bunker Archaeology Out of print for almost a decade we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titles—philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou. In Bunker Archeology urbanist Paul Virilio turns his attention—and camera—to the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers that l...
	Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the great artists of the twentieth century, and one of the best loved. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, holds the largest collection of her work, her archives, and her houses at Ghost Ranch and in Abiquiu. This lavishly illustrated volume presents a magnificent selection of O’Keeffe’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures, all reproduced in faithful color. It also offers a generous portfolio of photographs—some previously unpublished—by O�...
	Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner One of the visionary architects of the twentieth century, John Lautner designed dramatically innovative buildings with a rare sensitivity to site, vista, and structure. Accompanying a full-scale exhibition on Lautner at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum, this is the first publication to comprehensively explore his work, including his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright and the cultural and geographical context of Los Angeles, through an intensive examination of the archives of the John Lautner Fo...
	The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook Alan Lee, the Oscar-winning conceptual designer for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, discusses his approach to depicting Tolkien’s imaginary world. The book presents more than 150 of Lee’s celebrated illustrations to show how his imagery for both the illustrated Lord of the Rings and the films progressed from concept to finished art. In addition, the book contains 20 full-color plates and numerous examples of the conceptual art produced for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation. The Lord of ...