Desiring Practices Catalogue

Arts & Photography

Unknown, Author

Architecture

Black Dog Publishing

In this, the first book to undertake a critical appreciation of contemporary British art, curators, artists, and critics alike look beyond the hype surrounding "new British art" and examine the reality behind the myth of the "young British artist." Occupational Hazard assesses the popular media profile of this art and provides an analysis of how such attention affects artistic production. Encompassing a UK-wide approach, the book includes contributions from organizations such as Beaconsfield in London, Locus + in Newcastle, and Transmission Gallery in Glasgow.

Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art

History & Criticism

<p>An accompanying publication to the exhibition catalogue featuring an expanded discussion on architecture, gender, and the interdisciplinary. The contributing authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including film, fine art, architecture, architectural history, and psychoanalysis; all raise issues of relevance to architectural discourse. A must for those interested in critical theory, gender studies, art criticism, and architecture.</p>

Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary

Katerina Ruedi

Duncan McCorquodale

Sarah Wigglesworth

Outsiders: A Book of Garden Friends

Water Marks: Art in East Anglia

Ian Collins

The Shortest Way to Hades

<p>It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, ravishing raven-haired Camilla Galloway, in her court petition -- except dreary Cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature. Then Deirdre had a terrible accident. That was when the young London barristers handling the trust -- Cantrip, Selena, Timothy, Ragwort, and Julia -- summoned their Oxford friend Professor Hilary Tamar to Lincoln's Inn. Julia thinks it's murder. Hilary demurs. Why didn't the heiress die? But when the accidents escalate and they learn of the naked lunch at Uncle Rupert's, Hilary the Scholar embarks on the most perilous quest of all: the truth....</p>

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sarah L. Caudwell

Mystery

Modern Science

J.L. Heilbron

Design 2 Serial Books, Idea = Book, Shin + Tomoko Azumi (Design Serial Books)

Azumi, Tomoko

Azumi, Shin

Azumi, Shin + Tomoko

This is the first of two volumes on the highly regarded practice Eric Parry Architects, covering their work from the 1980s to the present. Projects featured in volume 1 include uniquely sensitive vniversity buildings at Cambridge and Sussex; the Damai Suria housing complex in Kuala Lumpur; the romantic and picturesque Chateau de Paulin, France; and the infamous Ministry of Sound nightclub in London. Wilfried Wang, recently Director of the Frankfurt Architecture Museum, and currently a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard, considers EPA's importance within architectural discourse, examining their concern with materiality, attention to detail, craftsmanship and compositional structures. The book is prefaced by the internationally renowned architectural theoretician Dalibor Vesely.

Eric Parry Architects 1

Wang, Wilfried

Coffee Table Coffee Table Book

Alexander Payne

James Zemaitis

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