Spector books leipzig (539 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Tracing the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene through a geological analysis of deep time on earthThis book examines ways in which the physical archives of the Anthropocene can be made legible. Scientists, researchers and artists grapple with concrete stratigraphic materials in an exploration of the opportunities and challenges involved in planetary knowledge production. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An exploration of the constantly changing, manufactured nature of physical landscapesThe essays in this book draw on specific case studies to determine the actors, interests and needs that natural landscapes are informed by, interpreting them as settings in which knowledge and action can be understood and molded in the Anthropocene. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Outtakes from an international project surveying an array of diverse learning practicesThe New Alphabet School is a traveling school promoting solidarity between different ways of knowing across continents and cultures. This book presents findings from these gatherings, offering an overview of current practice-based methods in the realms of art, activism and collective research. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Marcel Breuer's Isokon table as a case study for the museum objectIn 1936, Hungarian-born Bauhaus designer Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-81) used cut and bent plywood to fashion a prototype of a wide, soft-edged table for the Isokon Furniture Company in London. Today a fixture of the Bauhaus collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum and an emblem of the movement's furniture design sensibilities, Breuer's table presents an interesting curatorial conundrum: what happens to an everyday object when it becomes part of a museum collection This book investigates the material stories, social practices and various phases of commodification and ownership represented by this single object. Delving into the detailed history behind Breuer's table and the exhibition thereof, it also explores the institutional practices of the museum in its project of object archival. What happens to an everyday object when it becomes part of a museum collection? The table designed by the Bauhaus designer and emigre Marcel Breuer in 1936, which is today part of the Bauhaus collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is used as a case study on the postgraduate research and curatorial programme. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The first in a new series on evolving forms of communicationThis book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz's Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Tada, Kanako; Tillmans, Wolfgang (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Intersectional readings of the body as screen for interpretationInverting the notion of "body language," the essays in this volume draw attention to the process of "reading bodies," using the body as semiotic system, a fiction, an archive or alphabet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On the image politics of Aby Warburg's legendary lecture on the Hopi snake ritualAby Warburg's famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented-upon art history documents of the 20th century. But while Warburg's essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art history, to a wider public--especially in Europe--little is known about its source, the snake ritual and its history.A Kind of World War addresses what Warburg largely ignored himself: that not only the ritual, but also the images of the ritual--to whose global distribution Warburg contributed--have a political history. The volume seeks to demonstrate that Warburg's art history, insofar as it outlines an internal history of the European psyche, must be read in conjunction with its external counterpart, the history of colonization, war and cultural entanglement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Envisioning new ways to imagine the future through activist approaches to archivismTraditional archivism runs the risk of perpetuating hegemonic ways of thinking by anticipating what will be of importance in the future through the framework of present-day realities and power structures. These genre-busting ruminations gather new methods for designing views of potential worlds and forms of archival activism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. How can a heavy cherry wood desk tell a story of exile and migration? Walter Gropius' writing desk was designed as part of a collective furniture ensemble for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar.When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the desk moved with it, landing in the director's office, where it was used as a demonstration of a vision of a modern office culture. The desk took up residence temporarily in the Lawn Road Flats in London before following Gropius to Lincoln, Massachusetts, in 1938. It has remained in Lincoln since then and is currently in the Gropius family's private home.An index of the changing fortunes of the Bauhaus, Gropius' desk itself becomes an actor in a complex history of changing locations and social environments. Desk in Exile traces the trajectory of this uniquely weighted object, offering a model of an object-based history of exile. Part of Spector Books' series of readers on individual aspects of Bauhaus design, this volume comes out of the research and curatorial work carried out by the Bauhaus Lab 2016. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Tracking the triad of knowledge, technology and progress in design pedagogy, from the Bauhaus to to today The fourth volume in the Schools of Departure series is devoted to the use of technology in post-Bauhaus design education. The relationship between design education and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries is reflected in the different ways that designers and architects have conceptualized machines and their relationship to them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Writers respond to an Ursula K. Le Guin essayUrsula K. Le Guin's 1986 essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of world-making through gathering and holding. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A celebration, in novel form, of the legendary avant-garde filmmaker's beloved machineOn March 25, 1997, Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) found a dusty roll of computer paper under his desk. He stretched the paper into his beloved Olympia De Luxe, on which he had typed all kinds of texts for so many years: diaries, poems, Movie Journal columns, interviews, manifestos and letters to friends. Compelled to fill this forgotten roll, Mekas began to write a form of text quite foreign to him: a novel.Requiem for a Manual Typewriter is an ode to his beloved typewriter, on which he practiced writing spontaneously, describing the present on a machine that was already considered technologically obsolete. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. New paradigms of the body and its historiesThis volume calls for a new visibility of non-normative bodies, moving away from enforced categorizations and toward respect and care. Essays touch on everything from The Matrix to migration, from wedding photography to the Lili Elbe Archive. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. How the playlist has colonized our listening habitsToday, the playlist structures how people listen, as well as how companies collect their data. This volume examines how the playlist has spawned new categories, aesthetic tendencies and behaviors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An artistic and research-based examination of the effects of colonialism on language-learning in the school microcosmThis volume chronicles a project carried out at a school in Berlin in which two artists presented animated film images as a counter to the Eurocentric perspective offered to the students by their Spanish textbooks, which are rooted in colonial narratives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In Stille Strasse 10 in the Pankow district of Berlin, a group of elderly people saved their meeting house from closure. The members of the group occupied the building for 112 days and took the initiative to organise and run it themselves. The fate of the place is still unresolved. The London-based architecture collective Assemble set up a dialogue with the group about community building, active citizenship, and housing for the elderly and have developed a housing model for Wohnungsfrage based on spaces for shared activities.The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) project Wohnungsfrage investigates the fraught relationship between architecture, housing, and social reality in an exhibition of experimental housing models, an international academy, and a publication series that examines various options for self-determined, social and affordable housing. This publication series presents key historical works accompanied by new commentaries, contemporary case studies from around the world, and publications by activists concerned with urban policy issues, architects, and artists. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On the coding and decoding of bodily surfacesJust as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces--in the form of biases in machine automation, as discrimination implanted in memes. The essays in this volume explore how fluctuating norms determine the ways skin is coded and decoded into culture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An anthology on the politics of production in an age of global crisisConversations, essays and artist contributions focus on the practices and politics of production as a response to our contemporary processes of planetary transformation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Beyond the Bauhaus school: how international pedagogy influenced design as a careerThis book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on teaching models pioneered by schools like the Design Laboratory, New York (the first comprehensive school of modernist design in the United States that was open to general enrollment); the School of Arts and Crafts (Skola umeleckych remesiel), Bratislava; the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Ulm), Germany; and Industrial Design College (Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial), Rio de Janeiro.These texts are accompanied by essays and conversations on design pedagogy's politics, practices and self-understanding. This book is part of the Schools of Departure series, jointly published with a digital atlas that aggregates research on the global interconnections of Bauhaus pedagogy with reform projects in art and design education in the 20th century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Proposing integrative, multi-perspectival approaches to rewriting the old canons used by cultural and academic institutionsCultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now, often still relying on a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments. This book discusses new counter-institutional practices and concepts, surveying specific examples that reframe intellectual and pragmatic responses to concrete situations of societal conflict. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A collation of first pages of books posing the titular questionIn this book, the collective Biogroop selects and speculates upon a compilation of first pages of publications from 1829 to 2020 containing "What Is Life?" in their titles. Replies to the question range from "the sum of the functions that resist death" to "edible, lovable, lethal." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. On the implications of computer-generated music for live performance In the performance of computer-generated music, a tangibly causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. Looking at Music asks: how important is live action to the future of musical performance? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. How today's technologies are encoded with the beliefs of the past Drawing on Louis Chude-Sokei's political and technopoetic writings, this volume shows how past ideas have produced the technologies and lifestyles of the world today--for example, how AI today contains within it the biases of its creators, which in turn shape our present. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. What could it mean to live the life of an artist, and how can it be done? Is it a form of sleepwalking or a sullen selfassertion?How is it possible to unite literary, scientific or philosophical deliberations with art? The artist duo Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond uses film as a tool to visually discuss the present with all its contradictions, following the realization that to record images always correlates with a form of modeling reality. In their book, Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond combine a comprehensive collection of their collaborative filmic work (1999 - 2013) with texts by authors who have accompanied them along the way. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Iconic in design yet inadequate in purpose, the London Zoo's Penguin Pool comes under the microscope in this focused study on non-human architectureIn the summer of 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup. This collection of research critically reflects on the geographical imaginaries, design discourses and material entanglements of this multi-species environment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A close examination of two distinct modalities through which vision and motion have converged against late capitalismConsidering the phenomenon of dashcam footage alongside a video testing the stability of China's high-speed rail system by balancing a coin on a window ledge of a moving train, this essay examines how the discontents of late capitalism become observable, and by extension are imagined as governable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Bliss' Super 8 film stills of New York's buildings resemble a flaneur's reverie through the city's darkest momentsMultimedia artist Jenna Bliss (born 1984) montages her own films with found footage to address historically loaded topics intrinsic to the built environment of New York City, ranging from the global economic crisis of 2008 to the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Reflections on life in Ukraine, Western fatigue and the psychological zeitgeist three years into the Russian invasionThe anthology Notes on Living presents the current positions of contemporary Ukrainian authors on the politics of language, wartime urban architecture and more. It includes drawings by David Chichkan and Marharyta Polovinko, both of whom were killed in frontline action. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Architecture students reflect on how a modern-day Bauhaus might lookIssue 11 of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's journal celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, capturing special moments and places in Bauhaus history. Bauhaus 11 invites 100 architecture students from around the world to share their radical ideas, inspired by the Bauhaus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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