Libros de TEORÍA: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE, THE

To mark his 80th year, acclaimed Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger invited colleagues and students alike to reflect on the future of architecture, acknowledging it ...

NUEVAS CONTRIBUCIONES EN TORNO AL MUNDO DEL COLECCIONISMO DEL ARTE HISPÁNICO EN

Este libro constituye un rico y sugestivo análisis sobre los intrincados mecanismos que nutren el cuerpo del coleccionismo de arte hispánico, entre los que ...

JACQUES RANCIÈRE: ESTÉTICA Y POLÍTICA

El pensamiento de Jacques Rancière se ha convertido en los últimos años en una de las referencias centrales para el mundo del arte. Su ...

SCARPA: AGUA. ESENCIA DEL ESPACIO EN LA OBRA DE CARLO SCARPA

Carlo Scarpa, el tallador del agua, figura mítica e intensa como su propia ciudad, se nos descubre a lo largo de las páginas de ...

SEWN IN THE SWEATSHOPS OF MARX. BEUYS, WARHOL, KLEIN, DUCHAMP

Joseph Beuys", "Andy Warhol", "Yves Klein", and "Marcel Duchamp" form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new ...

CONTAGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. COMPUTATION, AESTHETICS AND SPACE

In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that ...

QUALITY INSTINCT, THE

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? These questions have long spawned ...

EXHIBITIONS CONCEPT, PLANNING AND DESIGN

Good exhibition design promotes thought and feeling through the creation of an emotionally charged space - an environment that engulfs visitors, pulls them forward, ...

CRITICA LABORATORY. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

For the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, writing is a crucial tool at every stage of his artistic practice. From the first sketch of an idea ...

YOUR EVERYDAY ART WORLD

Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very ...

CLOSE UP AT A DISTANCE. MAPPING, TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of ...

JACQUES GARCIA: TWENTY YEARS OF PASSION

BUILDINGS AS ORNAMENT

Ornament is back--not as detail adorning a façade, but in the body of entire structures, producing buildings in the shape of letters, a heap ...

LIGHT SHOW

Light Show explores the experiential and sculptural nature of light, tracing a historical trajectory of artwork that uses light to create specific conditions of ...

CREATING YOUR HOME WITH STYLE

.Adolf Loos was an eloquent voice against the squandering of fine materials, ornamentation and unnecessary embellishments. The rational underpinnings of his later assertion that ...

WALKING AND MAPPING. ARTISTS AS CARTOGRAPHERS

Contemporary artists beginning with Guy Debord and Richard Long have returned again and again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the ...

GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY AND THE RISE OF NEW ART WORLDS

The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired ...

TOPOLOGY OF EVERYDAY CONSTELLATIONS, A

Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, ...

ICONOS

Los iconos son obras extremas obras que tienen en su conclusión y en acto un determinado pensamiento pictórico. Obras que reúnen una carga simbólica ...

EBRIO DE ENFERMEDAD

En cada escrito de este conciso y conmovedor libro, Broyard, ya mortalmente enfermo, nos lega toda una celebración de la vida. Un libro «extraordinario, ...