יולי 2018

 

הספרייה מציעה לקוראיה מידי חודש רשימת ספרים וכתבי-עת חדשים שנוספו לאוספיה כל רשומה מכילה:
מס' מיון, מחבר, כותר, מוציא לאור, שנת הוצאה , נושאים, מס' מערכת תוכן עיניינים ותקציר.
כדי לראות מצב ההשאלות יש ללחוץ על כותר.

 

 

329.18(45) FAL

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 

 Fascist spectacle : the aesthetics of power in Mussolini’s Italy

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]

 Contents  

Introduction -- 1. Mussolini’s Aesthetic Politics -- 2. Mussolini the Myth -- 3. The Politics of Symbols: From Content to Form -- 4. Bodily Economy: Corporativism and Consumption -- 5. War and Melodrama -- Conclusions

Abstract  

This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini’s power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini’s elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime’s identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power’s historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime’s violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.

Per.Sub.

 Mussolini, Benito, (1883–1945)

Subject  

Fascism -- Italy.

 Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945

 Fascism and culture -- Italy.

 Aesthetics, Italian -- 20th century.

 Propaganda, Italian

41866

 

 

‫ ‪341.231.14(091) כרמ ‬

 כרמי, נעמה 

זכויות אדם : מבוא תאורטי

תל-אביב : רסלינג, [2018] ‬

 ‬

Contents  ‫

הקדמה -- שער ראשון: זכויות אדם ומעמדן: תולדותיו של רעיון: היסטוריה של זכויות האדם -- בין זכויות לזכויות אדם: הפילוסופיה של זכויות האדם -- אוניברסליות -- זכויות מוחלטות והגבלת זכויות -- שער שני: רעיונות יסוד וזכויות קונקרטיות: שלושה ערכי יסוד: חירות כבוד ושוויון -- הזכות לחיים -- זכויות של קבוצות -- זכויות של ילדים -- שער שלישי: הגנה משפטית על זכויות אדם: זכויות אדם במשפט הפנימי של מדינה -- זכויות אדם במשפט הבין-לאומי -- מילות סיכום -- נספח: איזה זכויות יש לנו? ההכרזה האוניברסלית בדבר זכויות אדם -- ביבליוגרפיה. ‬

Abstract  ‫

זכויות אדם תופסות מקום גדל והולך בשיח החברתי, המשפטי והפוליטי בארץ ובעולם. ספרה של נעמה כרמי פורש טיעון עקרוני ושיטתי החובק את הסוגיה של זכויות אדם ומעגן את הדיון בדוגמאות קונקרטיות כדי להיטיב להבהיר נושא מורכב זה. הספר מציג באופן מעמיק ובהיר את הרעיון של זכויות אדם, תוך כדי כך שהוא עומד על מקורן ההיסטורי והתפתחותן, טבען המושגי-פילוסופי, ההבדלים בינן לבין זכויות או תביעות אחרות והקשר בינן לבין חובות. הספר מנהיר את המאפיינים וההיבטים השונים של זכויות אדם: הוא מבחין בין סוגים שונים שלהן, מנתח את אופיין האוניברסלי ואת שאלת הגבלתן, דן בערכי היסוד העומדים בבסיסן ובוחן את עיגונן המשפטי. המדף העברי עני מאוד בספרות תאורטית על זכויות אדם, שכן הכתיבה הקיימת התמקדה בעיקר בניתוח משפטי. ספר המבוא שלפניכם בא למלא את החסר ולתת לקוראים ידע בסיסי נחוץ בתחום מתפתח ומלהיב זה, יחד עם הזמנה להעמקה נוספת ולמבט ביקורתי על רעיון שאינו רק עיוני אלא בעל פוטנציאל רדיקלי לחולל שינוי חברתי. ‬

Subject

 Human rights -- History.

 Human rights

 Human rights -- Philosophy

41817

 

 

‫ ‪517.91 לימ אלי ‬

‫ אליאש, אורי 

מבוא למשואות דיפרנציאליות רגילות /  מהדורה שניה

‫ [חיפה] : הפקולטה למתמטיקה - הטכניון, מכון טכנולוגי לישראל, 2015 ‬

 ‬

Subject  

Differential equations, Ordinary

 Differential equations, Ordinary -- Numerical solutions

41986

 

531 ROS

Ross, Carl T. F. 

Finite element programs in structural engineering and continuum mechanics

Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, 1996.

 Abstract  

Bridging the gap between theoretical texts and the massive and expensive software packages, this handbook covers finite element programming in a wide range of problems in mechanical, civil, aeronautical and electrical engineering. Comprehensive, it ranges from the static analysis of two- and three-dimensional structures to stress analysis of thick slabs on elastic foundations, and from two- and three- dimensional vibration analysis problems to two-dimensional field problems including heat transfer and acoustic vibrations. The 24 printouts of powerful and valuable engineering computer programs, written in QUICK BASIC, are introduced by a preliminary chapter giving useful hints and formulae intended for structural design. The programs are capable of analysing problems in engineering design and manufacture, with text fully describing how to use the computer programs for their particular problems or tasks. The finite element method is used in all the programs, and the problems for analysis can be of quite complex design and shape and with complex boundary conditions.•Covers finite element programming in a wide range of problems in mechanical, civil, aeronautical and electrical engineering •Ranges from the static analysis of two- and three-dimensional structures to stress analysis of thick slabs on elastic foundations

Subject  

Structural engineering -- Data processing.

 Finite element method -- Computer programs.

 Continuum mechanics -- Data processing.

41807

 

 

 6:001.816 CHI

The Chicago manual of style / Seventeenth edition

Chicago, Illinois ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2017.

 Contents  

Part I. The publishing process. 1. Books and journals -- 2. Manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and proofreading -- 3. Illustrations and tables -- 4. Rights, permissions, and copyright administration / by William S. Strong -- Part II. Style and usage. 5. Grammar and usage by Bryan A. Garner -- 6. Punctuation -- 7. Spelling, distinctive treatment of words, and compounds -- 8. Names, terms, and titles of works -- 9. Numbers -- 10. Abbreviations -- 11. Languages other than English -- 12. Mathematics in type -- 13. Quotations and dialogue -- Part III. Source citations and indexes. 14. Notes and bibliography -- 15. Author-date references -- 16. Indexes.

Abstract  

Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years The Chicago Manual of Style has remained the definitive guide for anyone who works with words. In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation and citation management, web accessibility standards, and effective use of metadata, abstracts, and keywords. It recognizes the needs of those who are self-publishing or following open access or Creative Commons publishing models. The citation chapters reflect the ever-expanding universe of electronic sources—including social media posts and comments, private messages, and app content—and also offer updated guidelines on such issues as DOIs, time stamps, and e-book locators.

 Other improvements are independent of technological change. The chapter on grammar and usage includes an expanded glossary of problematic words and phrases and a new section on syntax as well as updated guidance on gender-neutral pronouns and bias-free language. Key sections on punctuation and basic citation style have been reorganized and clarified. To facilitate navigation, headings and paragraph titles have been revised and clarified throughout. And the bibliography has been updated and expanded to include the latest and best resources available. This edition continues to reflect expert insights gathered from Chicago’s own staff and from an advisory board of publishing experts from across the profession. It also includes suggestions inspired by emails, calls, and even tweets from readers. No matter how much the means of communication change, The Chicago Manual of Style remains the ultimate resource for those who care about getting the details right.

Subject  

Printing -- Style manuals.

 Authorship -- Style manuals.

 Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

 Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

41845

 

E91.4 CHO

Balamati Choudhury, Bhavani Danana, Rakesh Mohan Jha

PBG based terahertz antenna for aerospace applications

Singapore : Springer, 2016.

 Contents  

Introduction -- Challenges -- Trends in THz Space Communication System -- Developments in Terahertz Devices -- Terahertz Antenna Design -- Conclusion -- Appendix A.1: Models of PBG based Microstrip Patch Antenna -- Appendix A.2: Feeding types of Microstrip Patch Antennas -- Appendix A.3: Multiobjective Particles Swarm Optimization.

Abstract

 This book focuses on high-gain antennas in the terahertz spectrum and their optimization. The terahertz spectrum is an unallocated EM spectrum, which is being explored for a number of applications, especially to meet increasing demands of high data rates for wireless space communications. Space communication systems using the terahertz spectrum can resolve the problems of limited bandwidth of present wireless communications without radio-frequency interference. This book describes design of such high-gain antennas and their performance enhancement using photonic band gap (PBG) substrates. Further, optimization of antenna models using evolutionary algorithm based computational engine has been included. The optimized high-performance compact antenna may be used for various wireless applications, such as inter-orbital communications and on-vehicle satellite communications.

Subject  

Wireless communication systems

 Terahertz technology.

 Astronautics -- Communication systems.

41806

 

 

‫ ‪658.01 היל ‬

‫ היל, נפוליאון 

 ‫ חשוב והתעשר : מלמד לראשונה את הנוסחה הידועה של אנדרו קרנג’י לעשיית רווחים. מבוסס על שלושה עשר הצעדים המוכחים לעושר / לוקט במשך 25 שנות מחקר, בסיוע למעלה מ-500 עשירים ומפורסמים, שהוכיחו על ידי הישגיהם שפילוסופיה זה היא מעשית

[תל-אביב] אור-עם, תשס"ו 2006 ‬

 Subject  

Strategic planning

 Success

 Success in business

41828

 

 

  ‫ ‪681.5 גל ‬

‫ גל, אילן 

תורת הבקרה : תיאוריה ותרגול

[גבעת שמואל] : הוצאת שורש (אלי מיטב), [תש"ע] ‬

Subject  

Control theory

 Electrical engineering -- Study and teaching

41825

 

‫ ‪681.5 לרו ‬

‫ לרון, יאן 

מערכות אלקטרוניות פיקוד ובקרה : פתרונות מבחני מה"ט - להנדסאי חשמל - 2003 - 2009

[גבעת שמואל] : הוצאת שורש (אלי מיטב), [2009] ‬

 Subject

 Control theory

 Control theory -- Problems, exercises, etc

41859

.

 

686.12 MOR

Franziska Morlok, Miriam Waszelewski

Bookbinding : the complete guide to folding, sewing & binding

London : Laurence King Publishing, [2018]

Abstract  

Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world’s best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and binding to create beautiful books.

Subject  

Bookbinding

 Book design

 Book covers

 Commercial art

41909

 

 

7.01 HUG

 Second nature : origins and originality in art, science, and new media

Stockholm : Axl Books, 2011.

 Abstract  

With the practices of art, science and technology increasingly converging, the concepts of origins and originality raise some of the most pressing questions in contemporary research, including issues of agency and accountability, hybridity and identity, intellectual property and oeuvre, intention and authority. These, and a constellation of related philosophical, economic, aesthetic, legislative and political concerns, are today subject to rapid reconfiguration due to the current pace of technological and theoretical change. Second Nature accordingly brings into a productive, interdisciplinary dialogue scholars working at the intersections of art, science and technology. Contributions explore how technologies of reproduction alter the meaning of concepts such as origin and originality, and how the borders between what we think of as "authentic" and "fake," "natural" and "artificial," are under constant negotiation and transformation. Interdisciplinary - and transdisciplinary - research demands rethinking our existing discursive and methodological orthodoxies. Second Nature arrives as a timely response, illuminating contemporary debates concerning digital and biological reproduction, nature and technology, art and authenticity, criticality and hybridity.

Subject  

Art -- Social aspects.

 Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.

 Science -- Social aspects.

 Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.

 Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.

41988

 

7.01:82.085 WRI

Writing and seeing : essays on word and image

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

 Contents

 Introduction; 1. Setting the Tone: The Challenges of Representation I; 2. Early Modern to Modern: representations, appropriations; 3. Crossing Images, Changing Places; 4. Women and the Intermedium; 5. The Lens and the Print: text, photo, semiotics; 6. Stage and Screen, East and West; 7. High and Low, Learned and Popular: straying narratives; 8. Arts and Crafts: composite skills; 9. Postscript: the Long Perspective, or, The Challenges of Representation II; Index.

Abstract

 The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collection’s central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured by the various contributions.Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume – but the range of media and of approaches considered is broad enough to include photography, film, video, television, comic strips, animated film, public art, material culture.The backgrounds of contributors are likewise diverse – culturally, academically, linguistically.The volume combines contributions by prominent scholars and critics with essays by younger scholars, from a variety of backgrounds. The resulting plurality of perspective is indeed a source of new insights into the relations between writing and seeing, and it contributes to making this collection an exciting new contribution to word and image studies.

Subject  

Art and literature

 Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)

41829

 

 

 7.017.4 PAS

Pastoureau, Michel

 Green : the history of a color Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]

 Contents  

An uncertain color (from the beginning to the year 1000). Did the Greeks see green? ; Green among the romans ; The emerald and the leek ; Hippodrome green ; The silences of the Bible and the church fathers ; A middle color ; Islamic green -- A courtly color (11th-14th centuries). The beauty of green ; A place for green: the orchard ; A time for green: the spring ; Youth, love, and hope ; A chivalrous color ; A green hero: Tristan -- A dangerous color (14th-16th centuries). Satan’s green bestiary ; From green to greenish ; The green knight ; The dyer’s vats ; "Gay green" and "lost green" ; Heraldic green ; The colors of the poet -- A secondary color (16th-19th centuries). Protestant morals ; The green of painters ; New knowledge, new classifications ; Alceste’s ribbons and the green of the theater ; Superstitions and fairy tales ; Green in the age of enlightenment ; A romantic color? -- A soothing color (19th-21st centuries). A fashionable color ; Return to the palette ; Chevreul and the scientists did not like green ; Neither did Kandinsky or the Bauhaus ; Green in everyday life ; Nature in the heart of the cities ; Green today

Abstract  

In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science, and everyday life, Michel Pastoureau traces how culture has profoundly changed the perception and meaning of the color over millennia―and how we misread cultural, social, and art history when we assume that colors have always signified what they do today. Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, Green shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil. Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix. Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money. Only in the Romantic period did green definitively become the color of nature. Pastoureau also explains why the color was connected with the Roman emperor Nero, how it became the color of Islam, why Goethe believed it was the color of the middle class, why some nineteenth-century scholars speculated that the ancient Greeks couldn’t see green, and how the color was denigrated by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus. More broadly, Green demonstrates that the history of the color is, to a large degree, one of dramatic reversal: long absent, ignored, or rejected, green today has become a ubiquitous and soothing presence as the symbol of environmental causes and the mission to save the planet. With its striking design and compelling text, Green will delight anyone who is interested in history, culture, art, fashion, or media.

Subject  

Colors

 Green

 Color -- Psychological aspects -- History.

 Color in design

 Color in art

 Color -- Social aspects -- History.

 Symbolism of colors -- History.

 Color vision

 Green in art

41976

 

 

 7.017.4 PAS

 Pastoureau, Michel 

Red : the history of a color /

 Princeton University Press, [2017]

 Contents  

The first color : from earliest times to the end of antiquity: The first palettes ; Fire and blood ; With Pliny among the painters ; Dyeing in red ; Roman purple ; Red in everyday life ; Evidence from the lexicon -- The favorite color : sixth to fourteenth centuries: The four reds of the church fathers ; The blood of Christ ; The red of power ; The first color of heraldry ; Love, glory, and beauty ; Blue versus red ; The wardrobes of beautiful Florentine ladies -- A controversial color : fourteenth to seventeenth centuries: In the flames of Hell ; Judas, the redhead ; Hatred of red ; The red of painters ; A primary color ; Fabric and clothing ; Little red riding hood -- A dangerous color? : eighteenth to twenty-first centuries: On the margins of red : pink ; Makeup and society life ; Red caps and flags : in the midst of the revolution ; A political color ; Emblems and signals ; Red for the present day.

Abstract

 The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather the only color worthy enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word for red was the same as the word for color. The first color developed for painting and dying, red became associated in antiquity with war, wealth, and power. In the medieval period, red held both religious significance, as the color of the blood of Christ and the fires of Hell, and secular meaning, as a symbol of love, glory, and beauty. Yet during the Protestant Reformation, red began to decline in status. Viewed as indecent and immoral and linked to luxury and the excesses of the Catholic Church, red fell out of favor. After the French Revolution, red gained new respect as the color of progressive movements and radical left-wing politics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, the acclaimed author of Blue, Black, and Green, now masterfully navigates centuries of symbolism and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates red’s evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images, including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers.

Subject  

Colors

 Red

 Color -- Psychological aspects -- History.

 Color -- Social aspects -- History.

 Symbolism of colors -- History.

 Color in design

 Color in art

 Red in art.

41977

 

 

 

7.036.9(44) PIC

Picabia, Francis 

Francis Picabia : our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction

New York : Museum of Modern Art, New York ; Zurich : Kunsthaus Zurich, 2016.

Contents  

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry and Christoph Becker -- Acknowledgments / Anne Umland and Cathárine Hug -- Francis Picabia: an introduction / Anne Umland -- Francis Picabia, once removed / Gordon Hughes -- The body after cubism / George Baker -- War, exile, and the machine / Adrian Sudhalter -- "I’m feeling somewhat better" / Juri Steiner -- Picabia’s worldliness / Briony Fer -- Relâche and the music hall / Carole Boulbès -- Francis "Funny Guy" Picabia and Entr’acte / Jean-Jacques Lebel -- Art = Sun = Destruction / Aurélie Verdier -- The secret recesses of Picabia’s transparencies / Masha Chlenova -- More powerful, more simple, more human painting / Bernard Marcadé -- Francis Picabia’s "war" / Michèle C. Cone -- Painting, poetry, and impudent correspondence / Carole Boulbès -- "The sacrilege of the points": Francis Picabia’s quasi-monochromes and the return of dada / Arnauld Pierre -- Jokes and their relation to modern art: Picabia’s painting / David Joselit -- Picabia after Picabia / Cathérine Hug -- Pharamousse, funny guy, Picabia the loser: the life of Francis Picabia / Rachel Silveri -- Checklist of the exhibition / Natalie Depêcher with Talia Kwartler.

Abstract  

Among the great modern artists of the past century, Picabia is one of the most elusive, given his extreme eclecticism and persistent acts of self-contradiction. Though known as a Dadaist, Picabia’s ongoing stylistic shifts, from Impressionism to radical abstraction, from mechanical imagery to pseudo-classicism, and from photo-based realism to art informel remain to be assessed in depth. Similarly, the breadth of his practice, which encompassed poetry, film and performance is under-recognized. Each makes him a figure relevant for contemporary artists, while the career as a whole challenges familiar narratives of modernism. Francis Picabia presents over 100 paintings, complemented by works on paper, publications, and film. Featuring some 500 illustrations and 14 essays, it examines the full range of Picabia’s oeuvre.

Per.Sub.  

Picabia, Francis 1879-1953

Subject  

Art, French -- History -- 20th century

 Artists -- France -- 20th century.

 Art -- France -- 20th century.

41862

 

 7.036(47) LIS

 Lissitzky, El

El Lissitzky : the experience of totality

Madrid : La Fábrica, [2014]

Contents  

El Lissitzky : the experience of totality / Olivia Maria Rubio -- Eliezer Lissitzky, a Jewish artist / Valery Dymshits -- Graphic art/painting -- Photography -- Reading El Lissitzky : from avant-garde artist to state designer / Victor Margolin -- Graphic design -- El Lissitzky and his German exhibition projects / Isabel Tejeda Martin -- Architecture/exhibition design -- Letters -- Chronology -- List of works

Abstract  

The epitome of the modernist engineer-architect-artist, El Lissitzky is one of the most influential and genuinely experimental artists of the early twentieth century. Equally prolific as a painter, designer, architect and photographer, he connected countries and cultures as a leading ambassador between the Soviet and European avant-gardes of the 1920s, promoting Suprematist and Constructivist art in the West and European abstract movements in Russia. For El Lissitzky, art was conceived not as a personal expression and production of objects, but rather as a collective and social activity. Working with Malevich, he developed the new visual language of Suprematism, which he applied not only to painting, but also to print and book works, architectural and theater projects, ceramics, educational theory and propaganda. Fusing this array of media, his three-dimensional work "Proun Room" used the actual space of a room to merge painting, sculptural installation and architecture; similarly, with his students he adorned the trams and buildings of Vitebsk with Suprematist triangles and squares, and used his "Proun" motifs to design costumes and machinery for the stage (most famously for the 1920 Futurist opera, Victory over the Sun). This volume provides a comprehensive view of Lissitzky’s influential career.

 Eliezer (Lazar) Markovich Lissitzky, El Lissitzky (1890–1941) was one of the most experimental and controversial artists to work with the Russian and European avant-garde during the early twentieth century. After 1917, during the first communist period, El Lissitzky served as a cultural ambassador, promoting Russian art and Soviet ideas in the West. Later he worked as a propagandist for the Stalinist regime during the 1930s. He died of tuberculosis in 1941.

Per.Sub.  

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941

Subject

 Artists -- Russia -- 20th century.

 Art, Modern -- 20th century.

 Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.

 Constructivism (Art) -- Russia

 Constructivism (Architecture) -- Russia

 Book design

 Graphic design (Typography)

 Illustration of books

41833

 

7.036(47) TAT

 Tatlin, Vladimir 

Tatlin : new art for a new world

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2012.

 Abstract  

Painter, architect, engineer, set designer, father to the Russian Constructivist movement, inventor of the “counter-relief” and author of one of modernism’s greatest icons, the “Monument to the Third International,” Vladimir Tatlin blazed an incredible trail of innovation through the glory years of the Soviet avant-garde. Nevertheless, “Not the old, not the new, but the necessary” was his motto; having spent his early years as an icon painter, Tatlin eschewed the modernist disavowal of heritage in favor of a research-based attitude to materials and genres. His “counter-relief” sculptures, made of wood, cardboard, metal and wire, were foundational works for Rodchenko and the Constructivists, and their influence can be seen today in the works of creators as various as Zaha Hadid and Richard Tuttle. But it is his “Monument to the Third International,” often called simply “Tatlin’s Tower,” that has grasped the imaginations of artists, architects and writers down the generations. Though it was never built, “Tatlin’s Tower” endures as a promethean image of utopian heroism and Soviet optimism, as does the artist himself, who applied his energies so broadly, without loss of integrity or focus. With 120 color illustrations and a wealth of archival photos, this volume offers the first English-language overview of Tatlin’s diverse achievements in more than 25 years. Published for a landmark exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, it examines every facet of his output, from his early Cubist-influenced paintings to the counter-reliefs, the “Tower,” prints, set and costume designs and aeronautic researches, and constitutes an essential portrait of the ambitions of Soviet modernism.

 Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953) was born in the Ukraine, and studied icon painting in Moscow. In 1913 he traveled to Paris, where he encountered Picasso’s three-dimensional sculptures, which directly inspired his own “counter-reliefs.” Following the October Revolution, Tatlin directed his skills towards the Soviet cause, devising in 1920 his “Monument to the Third International.”

Per.Sub.  

Tatlin, Vladimir, 1885-1953

Subject  

Constructivism (Art) -- Russia

 Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia.

 Artists -- Russia.

41831

 

 

‪7.036.9(569.4) ארג ‬

‫ ארגוב, חגי 

מכלי רוח

יבנה : הסדנא לאמנות, [2017] ‬

 Abstract  ‫

בתערוכה "מיכלי רוח" של הצייר חגי ארגוב חומרי הגלם הינם חפצים ואובייקטים מזדמנים אשר במקורם השתייכו לעולם השגרה והיומיומי. החומרים נאספו ואומצו על-ידי ארגוב משולי הדרך, הובאו אחר כבוד אל הסטודיו ומתעוררים לחיים בתערוכה החדשה. האוצרת לאה טופר מספרת כי "סדרת מיכלי רוח הן אותן שקיות עליהן הוטבע סמליל, מארז למותגים אשר העידו על ערך בעל משמעות מסוימת בחברה צרכנית. בתי הקיבול שנזנחו והופקעו, הופכים עתה עבור האמן למצע מזמין. הנייר כמו גם הקרטון כחומרים מגיבים מעניקים לארגוב חופש פעולה" ‬

Per.Sub.

 Argov, Hagai, 1961

Subject

 Artists -- Israel -- 21st century.

 Art, Israeli -- 21st century -- Exhibitions

 Shopping bags in art

41873

 

 

7.035.95(73) COF

Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison

The jazz age : American style in the 1920s

Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2017].

 Contents  

Directors’ foreword / Caroline Baumann and William M. Griswold -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Across the ocean / Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison -- American spirit : the rhythm of change / Stephen Harrison -- The American woman as fashion muse / Emily M. Orr -- The machine age : balancing art and industry / Emily M. Orr -- Melting-pot modern : a new beat for the new world / Sarah D. Coffin -- A thousand hands : the art of department store display / Emily M. Orr -- Modern notes of energetic America : 1920s textiles / Emily M. Orr -- Catalogue of the exhibition.

Abstract

 An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era’s jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores American taste and style during the golden age of the 1920s. Following the destructive years of the First World War, this flourishing decade marked a rebirth of aesthetic innovation that was cultivated to a great extent by American talent and patronage. Due to an influx of European émigrés to the United States, as well as American enthusiasm for traveling to Europe’s cultural capitals, a reciprocal wave of experimental attitudes began traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, forming a creative vocabulary that mirrored the ecstatic spirit of the times. The Jazz Age showcases developments in design, art, architecture, and technology during the ’20s and early ’30s, and places new emphasis on the United States as a vital part of the emerging marketplace for Art Deco luxury goods. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations and essays by two leading historians of decorative arts, this comprehensive catalogue shows how America and the rest of the world worked to establish a new visual representation of modernity.

Subject  

Art deco -- United States.

 Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Decorative arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Decorative arts -- United States -- European influences.

 Decoration and ornament -- United States -- Art deco.

 Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Jewelry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Design -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

 Nineteen twenties

41982

 

 

7.049 IMA

The image of the black in Western art

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ; London, England : In collaboration with the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research and the Menil Collection, 2010.

Contents  

Incomplete contents:v. I. From the Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire -- v. II. From the early Christian era to the "Age of discovery." pt. 1. From the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood ; pt. 2. Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world -- v. III. From the "Age of discovery" to the age of abolition. pt. 1. Artists of the Renaissance and baroque ; pt. 2. Europe and the world beyond ; pt. 3. The eighteenth century -- v. IV. From the American Revolution to World War I. pt. 1. Slaves and liberators ; pt. 2. Black models and white myths -- v. V. The twentieth century. pt. 1. The impact of Africa ; pt. 2. The rise of black artists.

Subject  

Blacks in art

41849

 

 7.05(45) DID

Didero, Maria Cristina 

SuperDesign : Italian radical design 1965-75

New York : Monacelli Press, 2017.

Abstract  

SuperDesign charts the Italian Radicals’ bold experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on design today. Radical Design was launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy in the mid-1960s. What started as a youthful rally against the establishment and a rejection of design norms became a movement that brought together some of the most dynamic and avant-garde thinkers and makers across the country. Through enigmatic, confrontational, and clever furniture and objects—such as the iconic lip-shaped Bocca sofa, or the Cactus coat-rack in green foam—as well as more public innovations including discotheque interiors and subversive performances, the Radicals projected design’s new era as equal parts Pop Art, play, Surrealism, and futurism. Told through exclusive interviews, unreleased photographs, original drawings and artwork unearthed from personal archives, and newly commissioned photography of rarely seen works, SuperDesign explores this fervent period of design that played out against the era’s social and political turmoil. Featured designers include Archizoom Associati, Lapo Binazzi (UFO), Pietro Derossi (Gruppo Strum), Piero Gilardi, Ugo La Pietra, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Studio65, and Superstudio. The culmination of a decade of collecting and researching original examples of some of the most important and iconic works of the period, SuperDesign offers a unique new introduction to the legacy of the Italian Radicals.

Subject  

Design -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.

 Interior decoration -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.

 Furniture design

 Chairs

41799

 

 

7.052 GRE

Greenfield, Adam 

Radical technologies : the design of everyday life

London ; New York : Verso, 2018.

 Abstract

 Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future. We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect of our existence. We’re told that innovations—from augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make life easier, more convenient and more productive. 3D printing promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain stands to revolutionize everything from the recording and exchange of value to the way we organize the mundane realities of the day to day. And, all the while, fiendishly complex algorithms are operating quietly in the background, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics and even redefining what it means to be human. Having successfully colonized everyday life, these radical technologies are now conditioning the choices available to us in the years to come. How do they work? What challenges do they present to us, as individuals and societies? Who benefits from their adoption? In answering these questions, Greenfield’s timely guide clarifies the scale and nature of the crisis we now confront —and offers ways to reclaim our stake in the future.

Subject

Design -- Technological innovations.

Design -- Social aspects.

Ubiquitous computing

Electronic data processing -- Social aspects.

Technological innovations -- Social aspects.

Telematics

 Work design

41606

 

 

‪712(569.4) האן ‬

‫ האן, איריס 

מדריך לתכנון וניהול תשתיות טבע עירוני

תל-אביב : מכון דש"א - דמותה של ארץ, תש"ע 2010 ‬

Subject

 Landscape architecture -- Israel.

 Landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Israel.

 Natural areas -- Israel -- Planning

 Natural areas -- Israel -- Management

 Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Israel

41858

.

 

72.036(430) PHI

 Philpott, Colin 

Relics of the Reich : the buildings the Nazis left behind

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, [2016].

Contents  

Collective guilt? -- Establishing the faith -- Strength through joy -- Enforcement -- Showing off to the world -- Future fantasies -- War and implosion -- Holocaust -- Downfall -- Coming to terms with the past.

Abstract  

Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler’s Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by the victorious Allies but others survived. For almost fifty years, these were left crumbling and ignored with post-war and divided Germany unsure what to do with them, often fearful that they might become shrines for neo-Nazis. Since the early 1990s, Germans have come to terms with these iconic sites and their uncomfortable part. Some sites are even listed buildings. Relics of the Reich visits many of the buildings and structures built or adapted by the Nazis and looks at what has happened since 1945 to try to discover what it tells us about Germany’s attitude to Nazism now. It also acts as a commemoration of mankind’s deliverance from a dark decade and serves as renewal of our commitment to ensure history does not repeat itself.

Subject  

Architecture and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

 National socialism -- Psychological aspects.

 Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography

41864

 

 

72.036(45) MAU

Maulsby, Lucy M. 

Fascism, architecture, and the claiming of modern Milan, 1922-1943

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

 Contents  

Introduction -- Milan in Context -- Respectable Fascism: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1922-1931 -- The Commercial City: The Trading Exchange and Piazza degli Affari, 1928-1939 -- Fascist Authority: The Palace of Justice, 1932-1940 -- Urban Networks: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1931-1940 -- Museum, Monument, and Memorial: The Palazzo del Popolo d’Italia, 1938-1942 -- Epilogue.

Abstract  

Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in constructing fascism’s national image and identity as it advanced from a revolutionary movement to an established state power. Using a wide range of archival sources, Lucy M. Maulsby analyses the public buildings, from the relatively modest party headquarters to the grandiose Palace of Justice and the Palazzo del Popolo d’Italia, through which Mussolini intended to enhance the city’s image and solidify fascism’s presence in Milan. Maulsby establishes the extent to which Milan’s economic structure, social composition, and cultural orientation affected Il Duce’s plans for the city, demonstrating the influences on urban development that were beyond the control of the fascist regime. By placing Milan’s urban change in its historic context, this book expands our understanding of the relationship between fascism and the modern city.

Subject  Architecture -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- 20th century.

 Fascism and architecture -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- 20th century.

 Architecture and state -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- 20th century.

 Public buildings -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- 20th century.

 Milan (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History -- 20th century.

41865

 

 

72.036(73) WRI (TUR)

Wright, Frank Lloyd 

 Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2016.

 Contents

 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bay Area -- The early years -- Resurgence in the 1930s -- Dynamic new forms in the 1940s -- Domestic designs of the 1950s -- Monumental last projects -- Aftermath and overview.

Abstract  

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called “the most charming city in America.” Paul V. Turner looks at the architect’s complex and evolving relationship with the city, surveying the full body of Wright’s work in the Bay Area—roughly thirty projects, a third of which were built. Spanning 1900 to 1959, they include houses, a gift shop, a civic center, a skyscraper, a church, an industrial building, a mortuary, and a bridge across the San Francisco Bay. The unbuilt structures are among Wright’s most innovative, and the diverse reasons for their failure counter long-held stereotypes about the architect. Wright’s Bay Area projects are published together here for the first time, along with previously unpublished correspondence between Wright and his clients, as well as his Bay Area associate Aaron Green. Stories from San Francisco newspapers portray the media’s changing positions on Wright—from his early personal scandals to his later roles as eccentric provocateur and celebrated creative genius. Beautifully illustrated with the architect’s original drawings and plans, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco highlights aspects of the architect’s career that have never before been explored, inspiring a new understanding of Wright, his personal and client interactions, and his work.

Per.Sub.  

Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959

Subject  

Architecture -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History.

 Architects -- United States -- 20th century.

 San Francisco Bay Area (California) -- Buildings and structures.

 Unbuilt architectural projects -- California -- San Francisco.

41835

 

 

72.036(73) WRI

Wright, Frank Lloyd 

Frank Lloyd Wright : unpacking the archive

New York : Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017.

Abstract  

Unpacking Wright’s archive of more than two million objects, on the 150th anniversary of the master architect’s birth Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has “unpacked”― tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. Wright’s quest to build a mile-high skyscraper reveals him to be one of the earliest celebrity architects, using television, press relations and other forms of mass media to advance his own self-crafted image. A little-known project for a Rosenwald School for African-American children, together with other projects that engage Japanese and Native American culture, ask provocative questions about Wright’s positions on race and cultural identity. Still other investigations engage the architect’s lifelong dedication to affordable and do-it-yourself housing, as well as the ecological systems, both social and environmental, that informed his approach to cities, landscapes and even ornament. The publication aims to open up Wright’s work to questions, interrogations and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.

Per.Sub.  

Wright, Frank Lloyd 1867-1959

Subject  

Organic architecture -- United States

 Architecture, American -- 19th century

 Architecture, American -- 20th century

41836

 

 

727.7 THE

Thematic museums

Hong Kong : Design Media Publishing Limited, [2012]

Abstract  

This book takes the architecture and display features of museums as its content, displaying various thematic museum features in modeling and space design. From the use of materials to their cultural and regional embodiment, the book analyses the cultural and historical connotations of museum design systematically.

Subject  

Museum buildings -- Designs and plans.

Museum architecture -- Pictorial works.

41848

 

 

738 GAU

 Gault, Rosette 

 Paperclay : art and practice

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

 Contents  

Meet paperclay -- Ingredients and mixing -- Paperclay slip -- The leathersoft state -- The dry state -- Integration of methods -- Figures: large and small -- Structures and armatures -- Tiles and panels -- Surface treatments, finishes and glazes -- In the kiln and beyond -- Visions emerge.

Abstract

 Paperclay is an extremely versatile material for the contemporary potter. Now firmly established in the ceramics world, this mix of clay and paper fibers is remarkably flexible, strong, and easy to repair. This highly workable medium allows expressive freedom and imagination at every stage in the creative process, even after drying and firing. In Paperclay, artists will discover the world of possibilities offered by this blend of earth, paper, and water. Building on the success of her previous books, artist and teacher Rosette Gault explains how potters and clay sculptors can make, fire, and reshape paperclay. This comprehensive guide covers a range of methods from dry modeling to slurry state. Going beyond the basics, the book introduces advanced techniques for building armatures, sculpting figures, and forming wall hangings. It also includes information on recycled and sustainable ingredients. Paperclay features all-new color photographs and diagrams of techniques and tools, as well as inspiring works by today’s leading international ceramicists. Packed with photographs and clear instructions, Gault’s book is an essential introduction to paperclay for ceramics artists and educators.

Subject  

Pottery

 Paper clay.

 Pottery craft -- Equipment and supplies.

 Ceramics

41877

 

738(52) SIM

Penny Simpson, Kanji Sodeoka

The Japanese pottery handbook

New York : Kodansha USA, [2014]

 Contents

 Tools and equipment -- Forming processes -- Decoration -- Kilns and firing -- Pots -- Information (Looking at pottery ; Maps of main pottery places ; Pottery towns and villages ; Other major cities with ceramics collections)

Abstract  

The Japanese Pottery Handbook, first published by Kodansha in 1979, has become a classic, beloved by anyone interested in pottery for its practical, step-by-step approach, and homespun charm. Now, thirty-five years since its publication, authors Penny Simpson and Lucy Kitto have refreshed their work, expanding and adding to the material, re-designing the pages, and re-drawing many of the delightful illustrations. The book has a cleaner, more modern look, yet retains the simple, friendly, and distinctively Japanese sensibility of the original. In addition to the new layout and drawings, the authors have tweaked the text and expanded several sections (including the discussion of underglazing and overglazing, and the Tea Ceremony and its utensils). There’s also a new page showing different types of brushes; and the Information chapter has been updated to include websites and recent books. The book is a manual to the way pots are made in Japan, their forms, and their decorations.The authors give a thorough account of both traditional and modern techniques and also describe in detail tools, materials, glazes, and the setup of workshops and kilns. Lucy Kiitto’s sprightly drawings infuse each page with life and clarity. Pottery terms and expressions are listed with their Japanese equivalents, and the new edition keeps the bi-lingual text, making it easier for the exchange of ideas between foreign students studying in Japan and Japanese potters.

Subject

 Pottery -- Japan.

 Pottery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

 Pottery, Japanese

 Pottery craft

 Ceramics

 Ceramics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

41876

 

 

 ‫ ‪739.2(569.4) גוס ‬

‫ גוס, דיויד 

סינדרום בהשאלה

מונטריאול, קוויבק : Sternthal Books, [2017]. ‬

 Per.Sub.  

Goss, David

 Leader, Einat 1966-

Subject  

Jewelers

 Jewelry -- Design -- Israel.

 Souvenirs

 Art -- Israel -- 21st century

41875

 

 

‪741.5 מקל ‬

מקלאוד, סקוט 

להבין קומיקס

בני-ברק : הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד-ספרית פועלית ; חבל מודיעין : כנרת בית הוצאה לאור, [תשע"ח 2018] ‬

 ‬

Abstract  ‫

זהו מסע חניכה, שבו תגלו למה קומיקס הוא כלי ביטוי חיוני וחשוב בדיוק כמו קולנוע, ספרות או כל אמנות אחרת, ותתחילו להבין קומיקס באמת. ‬

Subject  

Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.

 Comic books, strips, etc. -- Illustrations.

 Cartooning -- Technique

 Drawing -- Study and teaching

41928

 

 

745.52 QUI

Quinn, Bradley

Textile futures : fashion, design and technology

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2010

Contents  

Body technology : Electronic textiles ; Illuminating fabric ; Embedded fibres ; Subtle surveillance ; Emotive interfaces ; Feel the love ; Feature interview : Angel Chang -- Synthesized skins : Exoskeletons ; Robotic textiles ; Sport skins ; Fortified fashion ; Instant armour ; Fluid-based fabrics ; Sensory skins ; Soft skeletons ; Feature interview : Vexed Generation -- Surfaces : Perceptual surfaces ; Invisibility ; Hypersurfaces ; Switchable surfaces ; Textual interfaces ; Textiles for virtual worlds ; Second Life ; Feature interview : Jane Harris -- Vital signs : Antimicrobial fabrics ; Biotextiles ; Diagnostic textiles ; Medicating fabrics ; Smart bandages ; Colour and well-being ; Feature interview : Ptolemy Mann -- Sustainability : Biomimicry ; Spider silk ; Upcycled chic ; Weaving social links ; Feature interview : Carole Collet -- Contemporary art : Textile installations ; Second skins ; Subversive stitches ; Feature interview : Janet Echelman -- Interior textiles : Soft walls ; Fibre furniture ; Reactive surfaces ; Sensory membranes ; Smart carpets ; Reactive rugs ; Thermosensitive materials ; Lighting ; Fibre optics ; Electric embroidery ; Feature interview : Hsiao-Chi Tsai -- Textiles for architecture : Membrane structures ; Metal textiles ; Carbon fibres ; Inflatable structures ; Fabric formwork ; Girli concrete ; Geotextiles ; Feature interview : Toshiko Mori -- Extreme interfaces : Surface energy ; Crystal energy ; Flight ; Kinetic fabrics ; Energy absorption ; Extremophiles ; Textiles as biological agents ; Feature interview : Loop.pH.

Abstract  

Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space. High-performance fabrics are being reconceived as immersive webs, structural networks and information exchanges, and their ability to interface with technology is changing how the human body is experienced and how the urban environment is built. Today, textiles reveal their capacity to transform our world more than any other material. Textile Futures highlights recent works from key practitioners and examines the changing role of textiles. Recent developments present new technical possibilities that are beginning to redefine textiles as a uniquely multidisciplinary field of innovation and research. This book is an important tool for any textile practitioner, fashion designer, architect, interior designer or student designer interested in following new developments in the field of textiles, seeking new sustainable sources, or just eager to discover new works that reveal the potency of textiles as an ultramaterial.

Subject  

Textile fabrics

 Textile fabrics -- Technological innovations.

 Textile design.

41480

 

747:659.15 GEP

Alexander C.T. Geppert, Emmy Noether

 Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

 Contents

 Introduction: how to read an exposition -- Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung -- Paris 1900: the Exposition universelle as a Century’s Protean Synthesis -- London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition -- Wembley 1924: the British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis -- Vincennes 1931: the Exposition coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity -- Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the rise and fall of a mass medium -- Coda: pictures at an exhibition.

Abstract  

Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

Conf.Sub.  

Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung (1896)

 Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France)

 Franco-British Exhibition 1908 : London, England)

 British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925 : Wembley, London, England)

 Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931)

Subject

 Exhibitions -- Europe -- History.

 Exhibitions -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.

 Civilization, Modern.

 Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.

 Cities and towns -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

41847

 

 

75.036(47) SOC

 Socialist realisms : 

Soviet painting 1920-1970

Milan : Skira, [2012].

Contents

Foreword / Matthew Bown, Zelfira Tregulova, Eugenia Petrova -- 1920-28 -- 1928-36 -- 1936-41 -- 1941-45 -- 1945-54 -- 1954-64 -- 1964-70 -- Realism victorious / John E. Bowlt -- The labour of joy: soviet culture and the production of exultant masses / Eugeny Dohrenko -- Stepping on the throat of one’s own song? /Faina Balakhovskaya, Zelfira Tregulova -- Many realisms, a single hero-the proletarian / Nicoletta Misler -- Religious Sources in the art of socialist realism / Eugenia Petrova -- Combatant art-The discovery of reality / Vladimir Lenyashin -- Realisms in soviet architecture from the 1930s to the 1950s / Alessandro De Magistris -- Fairy-tales of the proletariat, or, Is socialist realism Kitsch? / Christina Kiaer -- A soviet flower of evil: representation of everyday life in the socialist realist art / Svetlana Boym -- Walking and looking in the socialist realist world / Gian Piero Piretto -- Lacrimae rerum: Geli Korzhev’s series Scorched by the Fires of War / Matthew Bown -- Curating the incurable: one curator’s experience with soviet art /Ekaterina Degot -- Echoes of socialist realism in post-soviet art / Aleksandr Evangeli -- Red is beautiful! / Vitaly Komar -- The gravitational field -a satellite leaving orbit / Mark Gisbourne -- French socialist realism 1945-70 / Sarah Wilson -- Interview with Geli Korzhev / Zoya Katashinskaya -- Realism unbound: The effects of international encounters on soviet art practice and discourse in the Khrushchev thaw / Susan E. Reid -- Chronology 1917-70

Abstract  

The development of Soviet realist painting over fifty years through a selection of works from Russia’s leading museums. Socialist realism remains an exceptional phenomenon in twentieth-century art. By affirming the value of content over form and restoring the central role of traditional practices, socialist realism was the declared opponent of the modern movement. In fact, it represented the only completely alternative artistic system. Created by the great Russian artists (Deineka, Malevich, Adlivankin, Laktionov, Plastov, Brodsky, Korzhev), the works present multiple themes and approaches to art, spanning from the last phases of the civil war to the beginnings of the Brezhnev era, stopping at the early 1970s when trends in Soviet art took on varied and inconsistent directions, causing the socialist-realist trend to fade. A non-monolithic view emerges, in which the movement does not originate exclusively as the product of totalitarian control and political pressures but as an evolving organism that reflected internal issues and echoed the great historic events of the twentieth century.

Subject  

Painting, Soviet

Realism in art

Socialism in art

41867

 

76.026(091) DRU

 Drucker, Johanna 

The visible word : Johanna Drucker. experimental typography and modern art, 1909-1923

 

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Contents  

Introduction: Background Parameters, and Terminology -- 1. Semiotics, Materiality and Typographic Practice -- 2. Visual and Literary Materiality in Modern Art -- 3. Experimental Typography as a Modern Art Practice. Marinetti: Materiality and Sensation: Mechanical Synaesthesia. Apollinaire: Figuring the Vernacular. Zdanevich: Inachievable Essentialism and Zaum Typography. Tzara: Advertising Language of Commodity Culture -- 4. Critical History: The Demise of Typographic Experiment.

Abstract  

Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, however, the tenets of New Criticism and High Modernism had polarized the visual and the literary. Drucker suggests a methodology closer to the actual practices of the early avant-garde artists, based on a rereading of their critical and theoretical writings. After reviewing theories of signification, the production of meaning, and materiality, she analyzes the work of four poets active in the typographic experimentation of the 1910s and 1920s: Ilia Zdanevich, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Tristan Tzara. Few studies of avant-garde art and literature in the early twentieth century have acknowledged the degree to which typographic activity furthered debates about the very nature and function of the avant-garde. The Visible Word enriches our understanding of the processes of change in artistic production and reception in the twentieth century.

Subject  

Printing -- History -- 20th century.

Type and type-founding -- History -- 20th century.

 Art, Modern -- 20th century.

 Art and literature.

 Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.

 Visual literature.

41801

 

 

766:003.63 MAP

 Map : exploring the world

London : Phaidon Press Limited, [2015]

 Contents

 Introduction -- The maps -- Timeline -- Biographies -- Glossary

Abstract  

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book’s unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation. Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine Maury and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around the world, rarely seen maps from lesser’known cartographers, and maps of outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current generation of map makers.

Subject

 Maps -- Pictorial works.

 Cartography -- History.

 Cartography

 Cartography in art

 Early maps

 Early maps -- Pictorial works

 Maps

 Maps -- Pictorial works.

 Maps in art

 Cartographers -- Biography

42003

 

 

  766:655.53 THO

Thompson, Jason 

Playing with books : the art of upcycling, deconstructing, & reimagining the book

 Beverly, Massachusetts : Quarry Books, 2010.

 Contents

 Introduction -- 1. Getting Started : Fold, Mutilate, Staple and Spindle -- 2. Projects to play with : Novel ideas for Artists and Bibliophiles -- 3. Gallery : Imagining the book -- Artist Directory -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements.

Abstract  

In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art. The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun.The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.

Subject  

Artists’ books

 Altered books.

 Bookbinding.

 Book design

41811

 

 

766:659.133(44) CHE

Cheret, Jules 

Jules Cheret : artist of the Belle Epoque and pioneer of poster art Publishers ; Munchen : Museum Villa Stuck, [2011].

 Abstract  

Accompanies an exhibition at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, from 10th November 2011 to 5th February 2012 Jules Chéret (1836 - 1932) is considered the father of modern posters. Through the use of color lithography he developed commercial posters into an independent art form and contributed to the transformation of the urban image of the art metropolis Paris with his enormous production of colour posters and advertising art. The effect of his work wasn’t only noticeable in public spaces, but artists like Henri Toulouse-Lautrec also consequently adopted the medium and developed its visual language further. As a lithographer, printer, designer, painter, decorator and illustrator, Jules Chéret was a prominent figure in Parisian art and literary circles at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. This publication focuses on his pioneering poster art, which covers a wide range of subjects from circuses, concerts and exhibitions to ready-made fashion, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and press products, thanks to the increased demand brought about by the liberalization of the media, the development of the rail network and the upturn in economy and trade. Jules Chéret developed a striking individual style in the neo-rococo tradition, but that also displayed the first modern elements which were to fascinate impressionists like Georges Seurat

Per.Sub.  

Cheret, Jules, 1836-1932

Subject

 Posters, French -- 19th century

 Art, French -- 19th century

 Painters -- France -- 19th century.

 Commercial art

 Illustration of books -- 19th century

41800

 

 

766:659.133.1 PUR

Purcell, Conor 

The magazine blueprint : the ultimate guide to indie publishing

Conor Purcell, [2018]

 Abstract  

The Magazine Blueprint is the ultimate guide to making your own independent magazine. A hands-on manual that covers everything from deciding on a title, paper stock and size, to email marketing, distribution and crowd funding. With interviews from editors, writers, designers, retailers, distributors and marketers, it’s a one-stop shop to get you from idea to execution.

Subject  

Magazine design

 Periodicals

 Periodicals -- Format.

 Magazine illustration

41911

 

77.04(567) ANI

ʻÄnï, Laṭïf 

Latif Al Ani

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2017.

Abstract  

Known as the "father of Iraqi photography," Latif al Ani (born 1932) was the first photographer to capture cosmopolitan life in 1950s-70s Iraq, and his black-and-white images constitute a unique visual account of the country during its belle époque. Al Ani portrayed Iraq’s culture in all of its abundance and complexity: besides documenting its westernized everyday life, the political culture and industry, he also captured images of Iraq from the air, for the Iraq Petroleum Company. Under Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime, however, Al Ani ceased photographing. Today, his photographs give testimony to an era long gone. His exhibition at the Iraq Pavilion during the Venice biennale in 2016 focused on works from the early period of his career, which reveal both Iraq’s modernizing trends and the retention of ancient traditions as particular themes of Al Ani’s work.

Per.Sub.  

ʻÄnï, Laṭïf

Subject  

Photography -- Iraq.

 Documentary photography -- Iraq.

 Street photography -- Iraq.

 Photography, Artistic

 Iraq -- Pictorial works.

41161

 

778.3 ZHI

Zhitomirsky, Aleksandr 

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky : photomontage as a weapon of World War II and the Cold War

Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]

 Contents  

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Vladimir Zhitomirsky -- Introduction : photomontage as weapon -- Mastering his craft : education and early professional work -- Propaganda bombing : World War II photomontages -- "Down with the warmongers!" : early Cold War photomontages -- In struggle united : John Heartfield, Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, and socialist political photomontage after the 1930s -- Drawing as the foundation of Zhitomirsky’s photomontage -- Plates -- The art of political photomontage : advice for the artist / Aleksandr Zhitomirsky -- Chronology and exhibition history -- Bibliography -- Selected acronyms and organizations -- Index -- Photography credits

Abstract

 "The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras and educating his public about Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, and Nicaragua as well. Zhitomirsky favored the grotesque and the eye-catching. His villainous menagerie included Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels as a distorted simian and an airborne scorpion outfitted with an Uncle Sam hat. In this comprehensive, image-driven account of Zhitomirsky’s long career, Erika Wolf explores his connections to and long friendship with the German artist John Heartfield, whose work inspired his own. Wolf also examines more than 100 of Zhitomirsky’s photomontages and translates excerpts from his one published book, The Art of Political Photomontage: Advice for the Artist (1983). In an era when satirical photomontage thrives on the Internet and propaganda has reasserted itself in America and Russia alike, this study of a once-prominent yet internationally undiscovered artist is more than timely"-- Provided by publisher.

Per.Sub.  

Zhitomirsky, Aleksandr, 1907-1993

 Heartfield, John, 1891-1968 -- Influence.

Subject  

Photomontage

 Collage

 Photography, Artistic

 Propaganda

41861