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Three Irish Men: Shaw, Yeats, Joyce (Mentor Books 1957), with portraits by Augustus John.
There are “certain painters,” Frank Auerbach mused to me a few years ago, “who painted in a not very distinguished way, then at the point of turning toward abstraction, painted some distingu
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The Machine that Changed the World Part 2.flv
New releases from Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Myron Walden and Kid Sister.
It’s known as the industrial factory to the world. But in recent years, China has been shuttering and relocating a number of its manufacturing complexes, as air pollution shrouds its skies — and attracts the world’s scrutiny.In Shanghai, this decampment o
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“We don’t want to be decorative artists and we don’t want to only be designers. We consider ourselves conceptual artists.”
10 STORIES OF COLLECTIVE HOUSING. Graphical analysis of inspiring masterpieces For the first time ever, a+t research group has conducted an analysis of ten inspiring masterpieces through drawings and texts highlighting the most important contributions made by each of the architects towards developing desirable housing. The book recognizes masters such as Ignazio Gardella, Jean Renaudie, Ralph Erskine and Fumihiko Maki, among others, who defended their own personal vision of architecture, a far reach from dogmatism and closer to users. Each story is a journey through multiple possible links which relate the project with works that preceded it, set it against those of its generation and match it up with recent 21st century designs. This is neither a canonical list of buildings nor the top ten of collective housing. They were chosen as one chooses one’s friends. Faults and all, they make everything worthwhile. Soon on sale