Udo Kultermann's Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States couples case studies with over 100 never-before-seen illustrations to chronicle modern architectural developments in each Arab nation. From government offices and public spaces, to houses of education and religion, the featured examples include designs for both commercial and private clients. The book also explores the unlikely collaboration between large foreign architectural firms and their smaller, yet essential, Arab counterparts and highlights the cultural self-examination that occurs while redesigning ancient cities to coincide with modern needs.

Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region

Arts & Photography

KULTERMANN, Udo

Architecture

McGraw-Hill Professional

The new painting;

PALL MALL P.

New directions in African architecture; (New directions in architecture)

George Braziller

A comprehensive guide to 20th-century architecture which places design in its historical, sociological and political context. Intended as a text, but useful to professionals, it covers all periods, types and movements including examples from the Third World and Eastern Europe. Four parts examine puristic tendencies, organic architecture, urban architecture, and regional identity. Over 200 b&amp;w photos, many not previously published in the US. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Architecture in the 20th Century

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Modern Architecture (A Studio book)

Hofmann, Werner

Studio

Yayoi Kusama has been obsessively and nearly incessantly creating artwork since the 1950s. The Japanese artist exhibited her first signature "Infinity Net" painting--a large canvas covered with a hypnotic array of little dots--in New York City in 1959. Since then she's shown her work the world over. Kusama's long career has overlapped the surrealist, expressionist, and pop-art movements, to name just a few, and though she has drawn inspiration from some of these sources, she has remained steadfastly focused on her own artistic vision. Her collections of wriggling, overstuffed spongy tubes overtaking floors, pieces of furniture, and rowboats; the polka dots covering her Infinity Net paintings, mirrored rooms, mannequins, and even her own skin; the mottled, gourdlike sculptures she installs in mirrored rooms--all of these visual motifs recur consistently in her work and evoke both Western and Eastern aesthetic influences.Yayoi Kusama is one of Phaidon's contemporary artists series, which includes, among others, books on Thomas Sch++tte, Jeff Wall, and Jessica Stockholder. Yayoi Kusama features an interview with Kusama in which she discusses her lifelong mental illness and her love affair with Donald Judd, along with the anti-establishment art "happenings" she staged in Manhattan in the 1960s and the major themes in her work. A pictorial survey, a collection of her own writing, and a Takuboku Ishikawa poem she selected to accompany her work round out the volume. This is a highly recommended book for readers already familiar with Kusama's oeuvre and those interested in learning more about this important artist. --Jordana Moskowitz

Yayoi Kusama (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Hoptman, Laura

TATEHATA, AKIRA

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

An updated edition of the acclaimed monograph, celebrating one of the most iconic and revolutionary artists of our time.
"Yayoi Kusama transcended the art world to become a fixture of popular culture, in a league with Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Keith Haring." —The New York Times
Kusama is internationally renowned for her groundbreaking work on themes such as infinity, self-image, sexuality, and compulsive repetition. A well-known name in the Manhattan scene of the 1960s, Kusama's subsequent work combined Psychedelia and Pop culture with patterning, often resulting in participatory installations and series of paintings. This revised and expanded edition of the 2000 monograph, which is arguably still one of the most comprehensive studies on her work to date, has been augmented by an essay by Catherine Taft and a collection of new poems by the artist.

Yayoi Kusama: Revised & expanded edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Taft, Catherine

Humor & Entertainment

Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a superb tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.

Exit to Tomorrow: History of the Future, World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005

Antonelli, Paola

Graphic Design

Universe

Authors: Udo Kultermann Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Keywords: series, artists, contemporary, trova Pages: 219 Published: 1978-11-16 Language: English Category: Sculpture, Arts & Photography, ISBN-10: 0810905027 ISBN-13: 9780810905023 Binding: Hardcover (1St Edition) List Price: Unknown

Trova ([Contemporary artists series])

Abrams

New realism

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

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