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 |
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
Title | Daniel Gordon: Houseplants PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Aperture Direct |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2020-11-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781683952060 |
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
Title | Windcliff PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel J. Hinkley |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1604699019 |
“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
Title | Gregory Crewdson: An Eclipse of Moths PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Aperture Direct |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2020-09-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781683952213 |
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
Title | Camille Walala: Taking Joy Seriously PDF eBook |
Author | Camille Walala |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-01-20 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781838186548 |
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.
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 |
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.
Taylor's Guide to Houseplants
Title | Taylor's Guide to Houseplants PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN |
Includes visual key, section on orchid growing, information chart for 322 plants, and "more than 400 color photographs and 200 black-and-white drawings."