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The most comprehensive and up-to-date book about the vibrant public art program of New York’s global destination, the High Line The High Line, New York City’s famed elevated rail line-turned-greenway, hosts millions of visitors annually, providing a unique space for encountering art and performance. Elevated surveys the rich, multifaceted offerings of its public art program, High Line Art, presenting works and projects from the last decade by key artists from around the world. The book features a world-class array of projects by artists including Simone Leigh, Paola Pivi, Sam Durant, Jordan Casteel, Cecilia Vicuna, Sheila Hicks, El Anatsui, Phyllida Barlow, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, and many others. It documents the creative evolution and vibrant cultural programming of High Line Art, which offers a city-scale canvas for artists and performers to interact with, seen in abundant photographs that chronicle the projects across the passage of seasons in the park. Through voluminous photographs and unique conversations with the participating artists, as well as essays by key critics such as Julia Bryan-Wilson and Aruna D’Souza, this book surveys the dozens of open-air installations, billboards, murals, video projects, and participatory events that demonstrate the unique and vibrant impact High Line Art has had on both New York City and the art world.

An accessible, inspirational, and engaging introductory survey of LGBTQIA+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest photography collections in the world, Calling the Shots offers an unprecedented view of photographic history through a queer lens. It includes a broad range of global LGBTQIA+ representation from the mid-nineteenth century to now, presenting images from pioneering LGBTQIA+ photographers and subjects alongside work documenting activism and hard-won legal battles, over a century of performance, nightlife, and diverse queer communities, collectives, and subcultures. Following an introductory essay by Zorian Clayton, images are presented in six thematic chapters: Icons, Staged, Body, Liberty, Making a Scene, and Beyond the Frame. Each chapter opens with a short introductory essay, followed by an extended plate section. Expanded captions highlight key images, and "artist in focus" inserts draw on the work of selected photographers to illuminate particularly rich moments in LGBTQIA+ history. Bold proclamations of queer identity and community sit alongside personal explorations of self; documentation of struggle, joy, and everyday life is considered side-by-side with performances and photographic fictions that continue to challenge the bounds of gender and sexuality. This vital, accessible volume offers an exciting, expansive appraisal of photography's role in expressing, documenting, and celebrating queer life. It will be essential for all with an interest in the history of photography, but especially for those with an interest in LGBTQIA+ history. 200 illustrations, 50 in color

Best known for her work documenting the political upheaval in Central America during the 1970s and 80s, American photographer Susan Meiselas has been at the forefront of ethical debates around documentary photography for most of her career. Through close engagement with subjects such as war and exploitation, she has interrogated her own relationship to what she's photographing, the circulation and dissemination of these images, and the pivotal questions around social and cultural representation and memory. Her influential contribution to the way audiences approach and engage with photography is as vital and resonant today as it was 40 years ago. This new addition to the Photofile series also includes short texts by Meiselas herself accompanying each work in the volume.

From their first performances to the release of their bestselling Black Album and beyond, this lavishly illustrated book charts the career of Metallica, the world's most iconic heavy metal band. Telling the history of Metallica through their tours, from the smallest early clubs to the biggest stadiums, this rich anthology covers their evolution and success year by year and around the globe. With tour anecdotes, backstage access and inside accounts from band members, as well as other musicians who have performed or worked with them, this book is the perfect gift for any Metallica fan

An easy and extensive introduction to art history that appeals to both younger and older readers. This book gives everyone, young and old, an easy and accessible introduction to the history of art – from cave paintings to contemporary art. With humorous illustrations and texts written in an approachable language, the book provides an overview of both isms, styles, and significant artists not only making the reader better equipped to meet art in real life but also inspiring us to actually seek it out. The Danish version of The Little Book of Art History was first published in 2014 and has been acclaimed by readers and critics alike. In March 2023 the book was published in its fourth edition, which had been extended with 90 extra pages. The additions were made with focus on broadening the selection of represented artists – in terms of geography, culture and gender – and genres, including performance, street art and video art. The book is richly illustrated with original drawings by the author himself and also contains a time line of art history from 30,000 BC up until today and a glossary, which are both illustrated.

With the discovery of her archive in a thrift auction house in 2007, Vivian Maier's posthumous trajectory from relative obscurity to one of the great American photographers of the 20th century is a story of a singular consistent talent. From the mid 1950s throughout her adult life she worked as a nanny between New York and Chicago, and it was during this time that she created a huge body of photographs and films recording every day street life, often including her own self portrait and moments of fleeting reflection within the cityscape. With her work compared to Helen Levitt, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, her photographs are a fascinating window into American life.

A comprehensive and highly visual overview, from the cultural and theoretical background to the amazing variety and everything one needs to know about the creative potential of emojis and how graphic designers can capitalize on this exciting communication trend. A means of expression for billions of people, emojis have established their function in our everyday lives. Increasingly complex in quality and quantity, these written language companions have long since transcended the realm of written communication to become a pop culture phenomenon of their own. This handbook is a manual and source of inspiration for anyone seeking to understand and use the full potential of emojis in visual communication. It combines cultural, historical, and theoretical backgrounds with practical application examples. Selected works from recent years demonstrate the formal diversity of emojis and offer inspiration for one’s own work. Specific cases are used to show how emojis can be used in very different ways in the implementation of design tasks and creative projects to thus become part of visual identities.

The turn of the 20th century was a golden era in France. It was an age of peace, prosperity, and progress after a series of bruising wars and turmoil within the French Republic, culminating in the Franco-Prussian War, which had ended in 1871. From the ruins of conflict, the Belle Époque brought joie de vivre flourish, a boom in art, design, industry, technology, gastronomy, education, travel, entertainment, and nightlife. Through some 800 vintage photographs, postcards, posters, and photochromes from the extensive archives of Marc Walter and Photovintagefrance, France 1900 follows up on TASCHEN's best-selling vintage photographic collections Italy 1900, The Grand Tour, and America 1900 to provide a precious record of France in all its turn-of-the-century glory. With the photochrome technique used in many of the images restoring the past to vivid color, we enjoy a bristling close, bittersweet, encounter with this hopeful age: the brave, stony splendor of the Mont Saint-Michel; the icy peaks of Chamonix; and the honey light of the Côte d'Azur. With an introduction, six essays, and detailed commentary by Sabine Arqué exploring the stories behind the pictures, this is an unrivalled portrait of a nation on the cusp of the century and of its poignant exuberance before the paroxysm of the First World War. While paying tribute to the precious Belle Époque, crushed by the traumas of history, it also celebrates the unwavering allure of La Belle France, its beauty, culture, traditions, and legendary romance.

A collection of 50 stone houses from around the world that make the most of this extraordinary, tactile material Stone has an enduring appeal and has been used to build homes for centuries. Remarkably diverse and versatile, it is available in a multitude of colours and textures, ranging from the refined elegance of sleek white marble and polished granite to the rustic charm of grey slate and beige travertine. This carefully curated selection of 50 stunning houses from all over the world – from imposing mansions to tiny cottages – shows, through interior and exterior images, how leading architects from around the world have harnessed the beauty of stone to create exquisite houses in an inspiring array of styles. Featured architects and buildings: Además Arquitectura (CM House, Canning, Buenos Aires, Argentina); Ap Valletta (The Coach House, Balzan, Malta); B. E. Architecture (Armadale Residence, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia); Bard (Cruachan Beag, Isle of Eriskay, UK); Beef Architekti (Casa Fly, Palma De Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain); block722 (Viglostasi Residence, Syros, Cyclades, Greece); Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architects (Casa Ward, Sarnano, Le Marche, Italy); Charged Voids (Residence 145, Chandigarh, India); Cubo Design Architect (C4L, Tokyo, Japan); Daniel Joseph Chenin (Fort 137, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA); DDM Architectuur (House B, Antwerp, Belgium); Ensamble Studio (The Truffle, Costa Da Morte, Galicia, Spain); Frank Lloyd Wright (Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA); Giordano Hadamik Architects (Villa Nemes, Liguria, Italy); Hw Studio (Enso II, San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico); Kengo Kuma (Jeju Ball, Jeju Island, Jeju, South Korea); Kropka Studio / Klub Architekci (House in the Landscape, Zawiercie, Poland); Leonel Marques Rodrigues (Casa Do Penedo, Moreira Do Rei, Fafe, Portugal); Lorenzo Guzzini (Villa Molli, Sala Comacina, Lombardy, Italy); Malik Architecture (House of Solid Stone, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India); Mar Plus Ask (The Olive Houses, Tramuntana Mountains, Mallorca, Spain); MASASTUDIO (Stone Court Villa, Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA); Matías Zegers Arquitectos / Catalina Pacheco (Casa Tapihue, Casablanca, Valparaíso, Chile); Mold Architects – Iliana Kerestetzi (Ncaved, Serifos, Cyclades, Greece); Nathanael Dorent Architecture and Lily Jencks Studio (Ruins Studio, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway); Neil Logan / Norman Jaffe (Heller Lane, Long Island, New York, USA); Nomo Studio (Stone House, Menorca, Spain); OBBA (The Layer, Ganghwa, South Korea); Olson Kundig (The Pierre, San Juan Islands, Washington, USA); Paritzki & Liani Architects (I/S House, Savyon, Israel); Pepa Díaz (Casa Pastrana, Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain); PPAA (Echegaray House, Naucalpan De Juárez, State of Mexico, Mexico); Room 11 (D’entrecasteaux House, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia); Sami-Arquitectos (E/C House, Ilha Do Pico, Azores, Portugal); Sinas Architects (Xerolithi, Serifos, Cyclades, Greece); Skene Catling de la Pe?a (Flint House, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, UK); Studio Archaos (Rogac House, Vis, Croatia); Studio KO (Villa DL, Ghazoua, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco); Studio Rick Joy (Sun Valley House, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA); Taller Gabriela Carrillo (Casa Piedra, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico); Ted’a Arquitectes (Jordi and África’s Home, Montu?ri, Mallorca); Tiago Sousa (Box House, Romarig?es, Paredes de Coura, Portugal); Tomoaki Uno Architects (Takamine House, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan); Tony Fretton Architects (The Red House, London, UK); Tu?ón y Albornoz Arquitectos (Stone House, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain); Type (Redhill Barn, Devon, UK); UNStudio (Fairyland Guorui Villas, Beijing, China); Vicens+Ramos (Single-Family Home in Las Encinas, Las Encinas, Madrid, Spain); Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architects (Brione House, Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland); Will Gamble Architects (The Parchment Works, Northamptonshire, UK).

Most surveys of the history of art come neatly packaged. They are divided up into historic periods, artistic schools and movements, and the careers of individual painters. They may make the subject appear more manageable, but they are oversimplifications. In reality, movements and careers overlapped and intertwined, reacting to events in the world around them. A Chronology of Art places the genuine developments of the art world into sharp focus. By prioritizing a purely chronological approach and side-stepping the clichés of conventional, academic pigeonholes, it presents an entirely fresh perspective on the subject. The book is structured around a central timeline, which features lavish illustrations of paintings, together with commentaries, and additional information about the social, political and cultural events of the period. The text is divided into four historical sections, becoming more detailed as it nears the present. From 1800 onward, each spread covers a five-year span, which is far more comprehensive than other surveys of this kind. The chronological spreads are interwoven with lively ‘In Focus’ features, highlighting social, stylistic and technical developments.

In the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin. With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by any other single writer. Approaching two million words and still evolving, this genuinely epic series of novels, with its deeply interlocking narratives, finely crafted drama and enormous range of characters, is a creation of extraordinary breadth. So how did a writer best known for short stories come to craft such a gigantic sequence of novels, and what is the key to their extraordinary success? What sources – historical, literary and personal – did Martin draw upon in the writing, and what inspiration did they give him? The Worlds of George R.R. Martin is an in-depth bringing together of the enormous range of inspirations behind Martin’s work ­– from historical borrowings as wide-ranging as the Roman empire, the Wars of the Roses and the Mongol conquests, to diverse literary and mythological texts, and Martin’s own family experience and biography.

The first retrospective monograph on photographer Jonathan Becker, one of the great visual storytellers of our time Over the course of five decades, Jonathan Becker has produced a body of evocative photographic work that documents lives of the twentieth-century beau monde. A protégé of legendary Parisian photographer Brassai and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, Becker’s work provides a link between fine-art photography and the notion of the photographer as social observer. Bringing together commissioned and personal work, this stunning collection presents more than 200 images from across Becker’s career, charting his journeys in New York, Paris, London, and Buenos Aires from the 1970s to the 2010s. Portraits of artists Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman, writers Arthur Miller and Eudora Welty, musicians David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and others reveal Becker’s exceptional eye and astute sociological observations. The monograph includes an introductory text by the book’s editor, Mark Holborn, along with a narrative text by Becker about his life, travels, and encounters with some of the most well-known figures in the twentieth century. Brilliantly reproduced and housed in a cloth case, this luxurious collection is a captivating and essential book that reveals Becker as one of the premier chroniclers of our time. Includes Becker’s portraits of figures such as: Peter Beard, HRH King Charles III, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Miller, Jackie O., Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, André Leon Talley, François Truffaut, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gore Vidal, Diana Vreeland, Andy Warhol, and many more.

The most comprehensive book available on master architect and designer Marcel Breuer This acclaimed book is the most comprehensive published on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed in Europe and the United States – from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the USA. Written by acclaimed architect and writer Robert McCarter, the first edition of this book was described as a ‘serious study’ (Financial Times) that would help in ‘realigning Breuer’s position in the canon of modern masters’ (TLS). The complete monograph on the last of the first generation of Modernist architects, this is the only book that examines both his design as well as his architecture, with detailed descriptions of his work – including commercial, residential, furniture, and unrealized projects, including all of his iconic furniture (such as the Wassily and Cesca chairs) and buildings (including the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York). Back in print, this new edition has a new cover featuring the former Whitney Museum, soon to become the global headquarters of Sotheby’s in New York.

An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in or studying the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working with artists, lenders, and art handlers; from writing interpretation material to installing and promoting your exhibition, The Curator's Handbook is the most clear and complete guide yet to the art and practice of curating. An introduction maps the history of curating from its origins in the seventeenth century to the multifarious roles of the curator today: tastemaker, custodian, interpreter, educator, facilitator, and organizer. Adrian George then guides the reader, across thirteen chapters, through the process of curating an exhibition. Each step is described in valuable detail and clear, informative language by this experienced curator, whose text pinpoints the keys to success (as well as which pitfalls to avoid). With advice and tips from a renowned cast of international museum directors and curators?including Daniel Birnbaum, Aric Chen, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jennifer Russell, and Nicholas Serota?this new edition, updated to reflect on current concerns in the art world and the latest recommended best practices, is the essential handbook for all students, museum, and gallery professionals, and established or aspiring curators.

A journey through Matisse’s epoch-making practice, from his early Fauvist works to his brilliant cutouts The volume is anchored by and named after Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poem “Invitation to the Voyage,” to which Matisse repeatedly referred in his lifetime. Following Baudelaire’s poem, the book is thus conceived as a journey through the work and life of Matisse, in which travel played an important role. Published alongside the Matisse retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, this monograph sails across the many waves of the artist’s practice. Beginning with his early paintings from around 1900, Invitation to the Voyage then carries the reader from his revolutionary Fauvist works of the 1910s to the sensual paintings of his Nice period in the 1930s and his legendary silhouettes of the late 1940s and 1950s. The wealth of important paintings, sculptures and silhouettes gathered here reveals the development and richness of Matisse’s masterful oeuvre. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is one of Modernism’s leading exponents. By liberating color from its conventional associations and simplifying forms, he redefined painting and brought a hitherto unknown lightness to art. Matisse was also an innovator in sculpture, and in his late silhouettes he developed an unmistakable interplay between painting, drawing and sculpture.

From paper folding genius Paul Jackson comes his latest book How to Think and Design in the Third Dimension. We live in a 3-D world, but most three-dimensional objects are designed from a series of two-dimensional side elevations and plan views. This book will teach you how to think and design in the third dimension. Through 60 construction projects, you will learn how folded paper units can be joined to create beautiful 3-D structures, according to the principles of three-dimensional symmetry. In addition to over 80 specially commissioned photographs and 300 step-by-step illustrations, this accessible book contains QR codes or hyperlinks to 30 short videos that show a selection of the projects rotating through 360 degrees. With How to Think and Design in the Third Dimension by their side, anyone who creates in three dimensions, including designers of all specialities, sculptors, architects, engineers and craftspeople, will be able to design with a new, practical and infinitely creative language of form.

Nordic Living delves into the essence of Scandinavian design, celebrating the foundational role of minimalism. Through visual pages showcasing the most stunning interiors, this book unravels the legacy of design pioneers and traces the evolution of Scandinavian aesthetics, revealing the seamless fusion of tradition and modernity. Explore the ingenious adaptations and original concepts emerging from Nordic culture, as designers continue to redefine simplicity in surprising ways.

Zlínské ateliéry nejen jako prostředí fantazie, ale i jako místo práce a sociálních vztahů Produkce animovaných filmů v kudlovských ateliérech, které v polovině třicátých let minulého století založil Jan Antonín Baťa, je součástí příběhu o světovém úspěchu české animace. Ovšem tam, kde vznikají filmy, je potřebná nejen inspirace a imaginace, ale také manuální práce, koordinace, komunikace či organizace výroby. S jakým vzděláním, dovednostmi a záměry přicházeli adepti animace do kudlovských ateliérů? Jak náročná byla kreslená, loutková nebo plošková animace pro tvůrčí spolupráci? V jakých podmínkách se odehrával pracovní, společenský a rodinný život tvůrců? Jak ovlivnila podmínky v ateliérech tzv. normalizace nebo třeba poptávka televize po animovaných seriálech pro pořad Večerníček? Tato kniha je výsledkem výzkumu ateliérů jako místa tvorby, práce, každodenního života a pracovních i společenských kontaktů.

The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy. The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table – and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards. She went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire. Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism, photography and writing, a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.