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24 novembre 2011

Stefan Zweig, Irene Nerimovsky and Sandor Marai

I love these books for the cynical description of human relationships. Embers: Sandor Marai Describing the story of Embers is almost to do it a disservice. An elderly aristocratic general, Henrik, invites a childhood friend, Konrad, who disappeared 41...

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Tags: books, author, nostalgia

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17 février 2012

Leon Vidal

Portrait of a Lady 1879, photochrome 129 x 89 mm - made with twelve superimposed colour printings. Leon Vidal (1834-1906) developped the photochrome printing process in the 1870s as a method of accurately colouring photographs for quantity reproduction....

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Tags: books, photography

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30 janvier 2012

Grids and dictionary

Notes from the introduction of Lucienne Roberts in GRIDS, Creative Solutions for Graphic Designers From the beginning of printing until the Industrial Revolution, the book was the primary output of printing. Apart from verse, type was generally set in...

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Tags: book design, grid

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15 octobre 2014

Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov

Vladimir Dubossarsky 1964 born in Moscow 1980-1984 studied in the Moscow Art College named in memory of the 1905 revolution 1988-1991 studied in Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts Lives and works...

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Tags: Russian artists, dubossarskyvinogradov

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22 novembre 2011

Le livre de demain

La collection « Le Livre de Demain » (Arthème Fayard, Paris) à été publié en 253 volumes format grand in-8°, illustrés de gravures en bois originales, sous couvertures jaune, entre Janvier 1923 et le 2e trimestre 1947. Après c. 1950 Fayard a réimprimé...

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Tags: collection, old books

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24 octobre 2011

La Fin Du Monde, Blaise Cendrars & Fernand Leger

Author: Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) Artist: Fernand Léger (1881-1955) Published: Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1919 Cendrars' style is associative and witty to the point of roughness. La fin du monde gets off to an impressive start: 'God the father sits...

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Tags: httpwww.kb.nlbckoopman1919-1925c02-en.html

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17 janvier 2012

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky is an architect and former member of the group Paper Architects operating in Russia in the 1980s, whose work centred around a refusal to take part in state sponsored architectural production of low-quality, standardised buildings. During...

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25 octobre 2010

L'heritage d'Ambroise Vollard

Après des années de procédures, l'héritage de ce grand marchand crée l'événement, dès ce mardi soir, à Londres, puis à Paris, chez Sotheby's. Du talent, du culot et du flair peuvent permettre de se retrouver à la tête d'un trésor ! La rencontre entre...

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24 octobre 2011

Raoul Hausmann

Born in Vienna, Raoul Hausmann at fourteen moved with his parents to Berlin. He received his first training in painting from his father, an academy painter who mainly worked on decorative commissions. As a young man, Raoul Hausmann was interested in the...

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Tags: photograph

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17 septembre 2013

John Stezaker at the Contemporary Art Society

British artist John Stezaker is fascinated by the lure of images. Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together...

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25 octobre 2008

Who are the old guys?

"The old guys stole our best ideas" Frederic Goudy In homage to all the soldiers. I love these monuments which are present as witnessess of our wars. Some are simple, some are "kingliness". As more than 1.3 French people were killed in the first World...

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26 octobre 2010

Ambroise Vollard

Cezanne, Picasso, Louis Valtat, Felix Valloton, Pierre Bonnard, Renoir, Mela Muter... have all painted this fabulous tresor hunter, writer, patron of the arts, visionary... Vollard wrote several books among them his informal conversations with Cezanne,...

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1 mai 2012

Re-appropriation by Rauschenberg...

Could art just be that: Just finding, taking out of the circulation and introducing the objects in the museums? This interview by Rosetta Brooks of Robert Rauschenberg illustrates the way of thinking of the artists who gather images, pieces, objects appropriate...

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Tags: Villegle, appropriation, duchamp, collecting, new realists

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17 octobre 2012

'I began to conceive of works based on nothing' Jonathan Jones on how Doris Salcedo's art grew out of the horrors she witnessed

In 1858, in a speech that warned of imminent civil war between the anti-slavery northern and slave-owning southern states of the US, presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln drew on the Bible to warn: "A house divided against itself will not stand." For Lincoln,...

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Tags: Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo, Moma, shoes

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2 novembre 2011

No more rules, graphic design and postmodernism

The products of postmodern culture tend to be distinguished by such characteristics as fragmentation, impurity of form, depthlessness, indeterminacy, intertextuality, pluralism, ecclectism and a return to the vernacular. Originality, in the imperative...

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Tags: books, graphic, rules, typography

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12 janvier 2012

Fantasy photography

Postcards were the first medium to mass-distribute photography. "Fantasy" for funny, comic scenes created by hand at a time when digital camera and manipulation did not exist. The photographs and graphic designers used photographic techniques such as...

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Tags: black and white, comic, photomontage

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6 février 2012

A conversation with Bob Stein from The Institute for the Future of the Book, By Sarah Gottlieb

(extracts from The Form of the Book Book) By created blogs related to books, Bob Stein and is team creates a conversation between the writer and the reader. "Reading and writing have always been social experiences but when frozen into print these relations...

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Tags: book design, short essays

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2 mars 2012

Susan Sontag, On photography

This book gathers several essays written by Susan Sonntag on her thoughts about photography. There is an isatiability of the photographing eye. The photographers choose for us what is worth looking at and what we have a right ot observe. Photograph is...

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Tags: photography, Susan Sonntag

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12 janvier 2012

Collector of images

Who is the artist today? How does the artist define himself? As a collector? like Rotella and Villegle (l'arpenteur de bitume/ asphalt surveyor) who are collecting urban comedy from the walls and gave their immortality in introducing them to the museums....

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22 novembre 2011

Hains, Rotella & Villegle

Villegle Travailleurs communistes, Hains Minuit, Mimmo Rotella Politique 97, Villegle London's tube

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Tags: Paris, Rome, affiches, lacerees, posters

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19 mars 2013

art13, London

'N 6', Yiyong Zhu, 2008 - 'The House, Marie Amar, 2007' - Lair, Lu Song, 2012 - sliced photographs, Jonny Briggs, 2011 - 'Self portrait with arrow', Tianbing Li, 2011-12 Ignacio Llamas www.artfairslondon.com

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Tags: collection, photographies, art fair, london, gallery

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28 mars 2013

Villéglé in conversation at the French Institute in London: 9th April 2013

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Tags: posters, New Realism, Villéglé, affiches lacérées, legend, urban historian

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10 novembre 2011

series

A serie is a way to tell a story. A story with images and no words. The red shoe. A rusty day.

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Tags: photograph, red shoes, stories

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25 octobre 2009

Inspiration...

Peter Blake & Daniel Spoerri Francis Bacon & Velazquez Hendrik Kertsenz & Vermeer Picasso & Velazquez Scarlett Johansson & Marylin Monroe Has everything been done already?

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Tags: art, influence, painting

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27 février 2012

Photography

Steve Pippin

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Tags: photography, experimentation

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