Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism (Doherty Gareth)(Paperback)

Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism (Doherty Gareth)(Paperback)

Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environmentRoberto Burle Marx (1909-94) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of

Is Landscape... ?: Essays on the Identity of Landscape (Doherty Gareth)(Paperback)

Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional fields. The

Karl Marx - Greatness and Illusion (Stedman Jones Gareth)(Paperback / softback)

Art in Time (Swensen Cole)(Paperback)

Historically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human power over nature, imposes specific cultural values, and/or claims or exercises control. And yet there

Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism (Farhat Georges)(Pevná vazba)

The Industrial Revolution is often seen as a turning point in the emergence of the metropolis and its distinctive urban landscape. And, no doubt, large cities as commonly experienced today are dependent on a range of industrial-era breakthroughs in construction technology, climate control,

Landscape Detailing Volume 2: Surfaces (Littlewood Michael)(Paperback)

As a ready reference for landscape designers and as an indispensable time-saving tool, Landscape Detailing is an essential for the design office. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction and then provides a list of points against which specifications can be

Art as Experience (Dewey John)(Paperback)

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts:

Robert Rauschenberg (Rauschenberg Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Rauschenberg made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important

Land Art: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art (Malpas William)(Paperback)

LAND ART: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTHWORKS, NATURE, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION ART A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art. A newly updated and revised edition of our best-selling book. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land

Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Berger John)(Paperback)

'Essential reading'--n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a 'master' storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things) In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces--essays, short stories, poems, translations--which spans

Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times (Merrifield Andy)(Paperback)

A contemporary interrogation of Marx's masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so

The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography (Randall Glenn)(Paperback)

The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, 2nd Edition teaches photographers how to convert their visual peak experiences--moments of extraordinary natural beauty that evoke a sense of wonder and awe--into stunning images that elicit the same awestruck emotion in their viewers

Landscape and Western Art (Andrews Malcolm)(Paperback)

What is landscape? How does it differ from land? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is nature? Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western

On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy - Introductory Lectures (Hegel G. W. F.)(Paperback / softback)

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (Zimmer Heinrich Robert)(Paperback)

The Art of Robert E. McGinnis (McGinnis Robert E.)(Pevná vazba)

A Modern Master Robert E. McGinnis began his career in 1947 as a cartoonist, and produced his first cover illustrations for 1956 issues of the magazines True Detective and Master Detective. Then in 1958, he painted his first paperback book cover, and from that day forward his work was in demand

Rebranding Precarity: Pop-up Culture as the Seductive New Normal (Harris Ella)(Paperback)

'Pop-up' is a fully-fledged, new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making, pop-up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas, container malls, supper clubs, even pop-up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes

The Art Spirit (Henri Robert)(Paperback)

A classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art Art when really understood is the province of every human being. So begins The Art Spirit, the collected words, teachings, and wisdom of innovative artist and beloved teacher Robert Henri. Henri, who

Spirit of Place - Artists, Writers and the British Landscape (Owens Susan)(Paperback / softback)

A lyrical, critically acclaimed account of the British landscape in writing and art from Beowulf to

Unquiet Landscape - Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting (Neve Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

'A minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences ... I'm delighted it's back in print in a new edition' Robert

Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey Robert)(Paperback)

'Robert McCloskey's unusual and stunning pictures have long been a delight for their fun as well as their spirit of place.'--The Horn Book Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get

Findings (Jamie Kathleen)(Paperback / softback)

Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic

Value, Price and Profit (Marx Karl)(Paperback)

2017 Reprint of Circa 1920 Edition Published by Charles H. Kerr. Although delivered as a speech, this paper remained unpublished until after Marx's death. It reads like a condensed version of Capital Volume 1, and contains Marx's essential arguments about the workings of capital. Those wanted to

Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (Wood Christopher S.)(Paperback)

In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht