Daniel Gordon: Houseplants (Signed Edition)

Daniel Gordon: Houseplants (Signed Edition)
Title Daniel Gordon: Houseplants (Signed Edition) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Aperture Direct
Pages 12
Release 2020-11-17
Genre
ISBN 9781683952350

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This highly collectible, limited-edition pop-up book is a work of art in itself, rendering Daniel Gordon's sculptural forms into a new layer of materiality and animating them in a pop-up performance. The book consists of six works in pop-up form, some featuring simple plants, others unfolding more elaborate tableaux. Inspired by his interest in the popularity of certain subjects on the internet--houseplants among them--Gordon meticulously cuts up pictures found online to create sculptural and fantastical still lifes. He uses photography not to show reality, but to present a new version of it. The crumpled paper and mix of realistic and unnatural colors render the objects slightly goofy. "Without seams and faults and limitations, my project would be very different," Gordon says. "The seamlessness of the ether is boring to me, but the materialization of that ether, I think, can be very interesting." His pieces are a perfect marriage of digital and analog processes and of high and low artistic references, complicating what is understood as sculpture, photography, painting, and the cutout.

Daniel Gordon: Houseplants

Daniel Gordon: Houseplants
Title Daniel Gordon: Houseplants PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Aperture Direct
Pages 12
Release 2020-11-17
Genre
ISBN 9781683952060

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This highly collectible, limited-edition pop-up book is a work of art in itself, rendering Daniel Gordon's sculptural forms into a new layer of materiality and animating them in a pop-up performance. The book consists of six works in pop-up form, some featuring simple plants, others unfolding more elaborate tableaux. Inspired by his interest in the popularity of certain subjects on the internet--houseplants among them--Gordon meticulously cuts up pictures found online to create sculptural and fantastical still lifes. He uses photography not to show reality, but to present a new version of it. The crumpled paper and mix of realistic and unnatural colors render the objects slightly goofy. "Without seams and faults and limitations, my project would be very different," Gordon says. "The seamlessness of the ether is boring to me, but the materialization of that ether, I think, can be very interesting." His pieces are a perfect marriage of digital and analog processes and of high and low artistic references, complicating what is understood as sculpture, photography, painting, and the cutout.

Windcliff

Windcliff
Title Windcliff PDF eBook
Author Daniel J. Hinkley
Publisher Timber Press
Pages 281
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Gardening
ISBN 1604699019

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“Dan Hinkley is a rare man, generous, inspired, and gifted with an eye for beauty that is given to few people. How I long to wander again in the galloping beauty of his garden at Windcliff. Here it is, in all its inspiring wonder.” —Anna Pavord, author of Landskipping and The Curious Gardener Daniel Hinkley is widely recognized as one of the fore­most modern plant explorers and one of the world’s leading plant collectors. He has created two outstanding private gardens—Heronswood and Windcliff. Both gardens, and the story of how one begat the other, are beautifully celebrated in Hinkley’s new book, Windcliff. In these pages you will delight in Hinkley’s recounting of the creation of his garden, the stories of the plants that fill its space, and in his sage gardening advice. Hinkley’s spirited ruminations on the audacity and importance of garden-making—contemplations on the beauty of a sunflower turning its neck from dawn to dusk, the way a plant’s scent can spur a memory, and much more—will appeal to the hearts of every gardener. Filled with Claire Takacs’s otherworldly photography, Windcliff is spectacular for both its physical beauty and the quality of information it contains.

Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths

Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths
Title Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Aperture Direct
Pages 32
Release 2020-09-08
Genre
ISBN 9781683952213

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An Eclipse of Moths extends Gregory Crewdson's obsessive exploration of the small-town, postindustrial American landscape. Each of these sixteen, never-before-published images is composed at a cinematic scale with the artist's signature auteurial care. Downed streetlights, abandoned baby carriages, and decommissioned carnival rides set the scene for a cast of classic Crewdsonian characters--full of equal parts yearning and ennui. This collection of images is offered in a limited-edition, slipcased volume, sumptuously produced at a scale that offers an immersive experience of each of these carefully crafted scenes.

Camille Walala: Taking Joy Seriously

Camille Walala: Taking Joy Seriously
Title Camille Walala: Taking Joy Seriously PDF eBook
Author Camille Walala
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2022-01-20
Genre Design
ISBN 9781838186548

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Camille's art is visceral, immediate and instinctive. Her bold colours, playful shapes and geometric patterns create a powerful visual energy, lifting moods, stirring hearts and raising smiles in all who pass by. Known for her ambitious, largescale and explosively colourful interventions in public spaces, Camille Walala uses the manmade landscape as a platform for disseminating positivity. This timely monograph presents her work and philosophy in all its colourful glory. This book is available in eight different cover designs; books are shipped to customers at random.

Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry.

Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry.
Title Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry. PDF eBook
Author Fausto Gilberti
Publisher Phaidon Press
Pages 0
Release 2020-03-18
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781838660802

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Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming a famous artist. Day and night she painted hundreds and hundreds of dots onto large canvases. The dots soon came off her pictures and ended up on her dresses, tables, and walls. But she wasn't sorry! An inspiring story about one of the most popular contemporary artists in the world.

At the Dark End of the Street

At the Dark End of the Street
Title At the Dark End of the Street PDF eBook
Author Danielle L. McGuire
Publisher Vintage
Pages 418
Release 2011-10-04
Genre History
ISBN 0307389243

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Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer—Rosa Parks—to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.