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From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass ...

Fischli and Weiss are highly prestigious, bluechip contemporary artists who work with sculpture, photography and video, positioned at the very cutting edges of new art. They represented Switzerland in the ...

It was in 1967 that critic Germano Celant defined as Arte Povera ('poor art) the work of thirteen young Italian artists. Through sculpture and installation they explored the relation between ...

The lead article in the October 2004 issue of Architectural Record, devoted to contemporary museums, noted that 'museums continue to proliferate across the international landscape, leading to the conclusion that, ...

500 superb images represent the worlds best photographers and encompass every sort of photography in this eye-catching and engrossing book. Pictures of famous events such as the Royal Wedding and ...

Following the footsteps of Cream and Fresh Cream, 10X10, Blink, and Spoon, area is an up-to-the-minute, global overview of graphic design. This image-filled book presents the work of 100 of ...

LIFE STYLE is the first book to document Maus creative process and his studio practice, Bruce Mau Design (BMD). Since founding his Toronto-based studio in 1985, Mau has become one ...

In cultural terms, Brazil is famous for its music and its architecture. As the largest and richest country in Latin America, Brazil is set apart from the others by its ...

The Glasshouse` traces the evolution of the glass building from its humble hothouse beginnings to the climate-controlled, high-tech structures of the 20th century. It features a wide range of horticultural ...

This book looks at the spatial themes that preoccupy John Pawsons work through a close examination of a range of different projects. It examines how light, mass and structure inform ...

Feminism has had a crucial impact on late twentieth-century art, inspiring some of the most pioneering developments in sculpture, painting, performance, photography, film and installation. The art world has been ...

In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter in Paris and New York, Avigdor Arikha (b. 1929) suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from ...

Fresh Fruits is the second collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to ...

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Travel Edition, presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in an ultra-convenient mini format, perfect for ...

Elsewhere Marclay examines the cliched images of music-making, for example those found on LP record covers: charismatic, classical music conductors; anonymous, smiling Easy Listening girls; sultry rock stars. These are ...

From the moment of the very first contact in the sixteenth century, Japan has always possessed an irresistible fascination for the West. The fascination was if anything increased when Japan ...

Modern House 3 is an overview of the most innovative houses built around the world in recent years, following the highly successful publication of Phaidons Modern House (1993) and Modern ...