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Design and Truth
ISBN: PB: 9780300171310, Yale University Press, June 2011
224 pp., 20.3x14 cm, 5 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
"If good design tells the truth", writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on aesthetics and authority, "poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related... to the getting or abusing of power". From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to...
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£12,99
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Collecting Modern Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Since 1876
ISBN: HB: 9780300122190, Yale University Press, May 2011
272 pp., 30.7x27.2 cm, 48 black&white illus., 251 colour illus.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876, after its home city hosted the Centennial, with the primary goal of acquiring important examples of contemporary design and decorative arts. "Collecting Modern" explores for the first time the devel...
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Health for Sale Posters from the H. Helfand Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300171174, Yale University Press, April 2011
60 pp., 27.2x20.3 cm, 5 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
Since the late 1960s, William H. Helfand has donated more than 1,000 posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ars Medica Collection, the world's only collection of medical prints housed in an art museum. This fascinating volu...
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£15,00
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Structure of Light Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300163704, Yale University Press, November 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 131 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.
The potential of electric light as a new building "material" was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space. "The Struct...
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Designing Tomorrow America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
ISBN: HB: 9780300149579, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 102 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.
In the midst of the Great Depression, America's World's Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York and San Francisco s...
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£45,00
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Print in Early Modern England An Historical Oversight
ISBN: HB: 9780300136975, Yale University Press, May 2010
400 pp., 32x24.5 cm, 270 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.
The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book rectifies a major oversight in the history of English visual art. The book provides an iconographic survey of the sin...
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£45,00
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Konstantin GRCIC Decisive Design
ISBN: PB: 9780300151046, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
96 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 90 colour illus.
The hip, functional, and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic – widely recognized as one of the most important designers working today – are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition...
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Steve Wolfe on Paper
ISBN: PB: 9780300158984, Yale University Press, November 2009
96 pp., 28.6x19.1 cm, 45 colour illus.
Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...
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Buriki Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile: The Yoku Tanaka Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300151572, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 23.2x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus.
Tin toys have been made in Japan for more than 100 years, but during World War II their production – and international sales – ended. Almost as soon as the war was over, ingenious manufacturers began to make model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. Wit...
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Tatlin's Tower Monument to Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300111309, Yale University Press, June 2009
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour images, 45 black&white illus.
The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key figure of Russian constructivism. Planned as the headquarters and monument of the Comin...
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