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MAD Works — MAD Architects

11 November 2016 in Books Comment

MAD Works
MAD Architects

The first complete overview of the most important contemporary architecture practice ever to have emerged from China

The skylines of modern China are punctuated by architecture that amazes, inspires, and awes. Many of these structures are the work of new, experimental practices like China-based MAD Architects. MAD Works not only documents the buildings of this group of avant-garde architects but also traces the development of their ideas through associated practice including art, research, and exhibition projects. Organized thematically, the book explores the underlying concepts of MAD Architects’ work. MAD Works is illustrated with photographs, architectural drawings, and 3D visualizations to provide a thorough exploration of MAD Architect’s international portfolio of completed works, unbuilt projects, and future ideas.

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 240 pp
Illustrations: 300 Illustrations
ISBN: 9780714871967

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Hong Kong Parr

9 November 2016 in Books Comment

Hong Kong Parr
Martin Parr

An art book titled Hong Kong Parr features select works from Martin Parr’s recent Hong Kong project (2013) commissioned by Blindspot Gallery. The book is published to accompany his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong in September 2014.

Published by Blindspot Gallery and GOST Books, September 2014
ISBN: 978-1-910401-00-2
Soft back with vinyl flexi-cover, 112 pages + 24 page booklet
Dimensions: 26.6 x 20.3 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
Limited edition of 1,800 copies

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Daido Moriyama — In Color: Now, And Never Again

9 November 2016 in Books Comment

In Color: Now, And Never Again
Daido Moriyama

The most recent projects by Daido Moriyama, one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese photography along with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu. Considered one of the great masters of contemporary Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama is always on the road, a lone traveler whose black-and-white images recount visions and worlds hidden just beneath the surface of reality.

Published by Skira, 2016
Hard back, 480 pages
Dimensions: 31.8 x 21.8 x 3.5 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-88-572-2226-4

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Relics — Damien Hirst

9 November 2016 in Books Comment

Relics — Damien Hirst
Published by Other Criteria

Relics constitutes the new and largest ever retrospective of Damien Hirst’s work, including both iconic, and previously unseen artworks, spanning twenty-seven years of the artists career. If you own one book on the work of this artist, this is the latest and most comprehensive.

OC10153
2014
Hardback pp172
330 x 260 mm (13 x 10 inches)
Interview with Elena Geuna

Advertising For People Who Don’t Like Advertising — KesselsKramer

8 November 2016 in Books Comment

Advertising for People Who Don’t Like Advertising
KesselsKramer

This is a book for everyone who makes tea during the commercial breaks. It’s about why advertising irritates, bores or outrages us, and why it doesn’t have to be this way.

Published by Laurence King, Advertising for People Who Don’t Like Advertising describes KesselsKramer’s journey, its creative approach and gets in touch with the creative thinkers it admires including Alex Bogusky, Stefan Sagmeister, Mark Fenske, Hans Aarsman and Steve Henry.

There is also a blog called Don’t Like Advertising to accompany the book which features interviews and articles by design and art direction critics and journalists.

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For the Love of God — The Making of the Diamond Skull

8 November 2016 in Books Comment

For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull
Damien Hirst

This book is a creative guide to the making of arguably the most extraordinary art object to be made in the 21st century. Published to accompany the 2007 exhibition “Damien Hirst: Beyond Belief” at White Cube, it gives a fascinating pictorial insight into how Hirst’s diamond skull piece “For the Love of God” was conceived and produced.

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