Bibliotheek: nieuwe aanwinsten - mei 2008

Baghdad Calling : Reportages uit Turkije, Syrië, Jordanië en Irak / Geert van Kesteren ; ontwerp Meevis & Van Deursen. - Rotterdam : episode publishers, 2008. - 388 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
Mobieletelefoonfoto's Irak: Iraakse burgers en vluchtelingen.
Foto's en interviews Turkije, Syrië, Jordanië, Irak door Geert van Kesteren.

Super Holland Design / edited by Tomoko Sakamoto, Ramon Prat. - Barcelona ; New York : Actar, 2008. - 431 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Featured designers look at how concepts are transformed into strong messages, using new techniques and technology.
Lust, Thonik, Zeloot, Werkplaats Typografie, Meta Haven - Daniël van der Velden [...et al.]

Designing Public : Perspektiven für die Öffentlichkeit = Perspectives for the public / edited by Michael Erlhoff, Philipp Heidkamp, Iris Utikal. - Basel ; Boston ; Berlin : Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008. - 209 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
In moving freely among the public and private spheres, design forces us to ask wether the distinction we still draw between them adequately describes our world today.

Logo R.I.P. : A Commemoration of Dead Logotypes / The Stone Twins ; with a foreword by Gert Dumbar. - Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, 2003. - 191 p. : ills. ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Featuring 50 Logotypes that are no longer used.

Area 2 : 100 Graphic Designers : 10 Curators : 10 Design Classics / curators Irma Boom, Julia Hastings, Jan Middendorp [...et al.]. - London : Phaidon, 2008. - 444 p. : ills. ; 30 cm
Includes biographies.
Peter Bilak, Lust, Will Holder [...et al.]

More than 8 design ideas for the integrated living of mentally handicapped people in society / edited by Peik Suyling, Diana Krabbendam, Kees Dorst [...et al.]. - Amsterdam : YD+I, 2005. - 96 p. : ills. ; 17 cm
The project 'Integrated Living' was not about the housing of the handicapped in society, but the lack of social interaction between the handicapped and the people living around them in the same neighbourhood.

RAW Amongst the Ruins / edited by Lisette Smits, Alexis Vaillant ; text Phillip van den Bossche, Brian Dillon, Raimundas Malasauskas [...et al.]. - Rotterdam : Veenman Publishers, 2007. - 84 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maasticht, 10 March - 20 May 2007.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Richard Hawkins, T.J. Wilcox [...et al.]

Ewoud van Rijn : "Venture" & "the Muse's Imperative" / text Daniel van der Velden, Sandra Smallenburg. - Rotterdam : PrintROOM, 2008. - 32 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Includes biography.
'Venture' spins a pictorial mythology around today's widespread cultural pessimism and the idea of the death of art.
In 'The Muse's Imperative' the cult of painting's muse is reborn.

Provo : Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt / Richard Kempton. - New York : Autonomedia, 2007. - 160 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Provo staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967.

Over Nutteloze Zaken / Harmen Brethouwer ; met tekstbijdragen van Carel Blotkamp, Mark Kremer, Harm Lux [...et al.]. - Den Haag : Uitgeverij De Zwaluw, 2008. - 238 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Dit boek is een voorbeeld van hoe je met historische bronnen kunt omgaan en wat je daaruit kunt putten, en hoe je die kunt verbinden aan de actualiteit.

Social Choreography : Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement / Andrew Hewitt. - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2005. - 254p. : ills. ; 23 cm. - (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Through the concept of "social choreography" Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement, such as walking, stumbling, and laughing - to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.

Time Out : Warmoesstraat 139 : 2004-2007 / samenstelling en redactie Kasper Andreasen ; met bijdragen van Maria Barnas, Gijs Frieling, Ad de Jong [...et al.]. - Amsterdam : W139, 2007. - 128 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Wat voor projecten realiseren kunstenaars tijdens de renovatie van een tentoonstellingsruimte met een gelaagde geschiedenis? De resultaten van deze onzichtbare projecten zijn samengebracht in dit boek.
Johannes Schwartz, Falke Pisano, Floris Kruidenberg [...et al.]

Changing Roles : Artists' personal views and wishes / concept and editing Renske Janssen, Nicolaus Schafhausen. - Rotterdam : Witte de Wth, 2007. - 208 p. : ills. ;
20 cm
Includes biographies.
Seven simple and open questions on different aspects of today's art world were asked to every artist involved in Witte de With's program in 2006 and 2007. The answers serve as time-documents, setting out a blueprint for the future role of the art institution and of its related actors ( the artist, curator, critic, gallerist).

Fashion as Photograph : Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion / edited by Eugénie Shinkle. - London : I.B. Tauris & Co, 2008. - 243 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes: Fashioning the Street: Images of the Street in Fashion Media, In the Business of Selling Dreams, The Elegance of the Everyday: Nobodies in Contemporary Fashion Photography.

The Russian Garbo : Anna Sten + Richard Neutra + Julius Schulman / James Biber. - New York ; London ; Berlin : Pentagram, 2008. - geen paginering : ills. ; 21 cm
The house that Richard Neutra designed for the movie star Anna Sten is a lasting contribution to an era when Hollywood was a cauldron of emigré talent and unending optimism.

The Picturesque : Architecture, Disgust and other Irregularities / John Macarthur. - Abingdon : Routledge, 2007. - 295 p. : ills. ; 25 cm. (The classical tradition in architecture)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The term picturesque once meant a radical blurring of art and life, the relations between the arts and architecture, painting and landscaping. Today, the word picturesque is frequently used to describe aesthetic failure, trivial cultural products and naïve tastes.

From Agit-Prop to Free Space : The Architecture of Cedric Price / Stanley Mathews. - London : Black Dog Publishing, 2007. - 285 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Includes biographical references.
This book focuses specifically on two of Price's major unrealised works: The Fun Palace and The Potteries Thinkbelt.

Welkom in Megapolis : Denken over wonen, stad em toekomst / Jan-Hendrik Bakker. - Amsterdam ; Antwerpen : Uitgeverij Atlas, 2008. - 302 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
Bavat literatuurlijst en bronnen.
In dit boek beschrijft de filosoof Jan-Hendrik Bakker het stadsleven. Omdat de stad slechts voor de helft uit steen en glas bestaat en voor de andere helft uit verhalen en verbeelding verbindt zijn boek filosofie, literatuur, architectuur en populaire cultuur met elkaar.

IJmuiden - Den Haag, Atlantikwall 1940-1945 : Marine Artillerie Abteilung 201 / P. Harff en D. Harff. - Katwijk : in eigen beheer, 2005. - 240 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
De Atlantikwall, waarvan de kust tussen Ijmuiden en Den Haag deel uitmaakte, was een verdedigingslinie van de Duitsers, die van het noorden van Noorwegen tot Spanje liep. Deze linie moest in de Tweede Wereldoorlog voorkomen dat de geallieerden in West-Europa aan land konden komen.

Dick Raaijmakers Monografie / redactie Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer. - Rotterdam : V2_Publishing, 2007. - 528 p. : ills. ; 28 cm
Bevat biografie en bibliografie.
Ongrijpbaar, maar nu toch vastgelegd in een imposante monografie: het eigenaardige muziektheater van componist Dick Raaijmakers.

Highrise - Common Ground : Art and the Amsterdam Zuidas Area / edited by Jeroen Boomgaard ; texts by BAVO, Daniel van der Velden, Barbara Visser [...et al.]. - Amsterdam : Valiz with Research Group Art and Public Space / Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2008. - 384 p. : ills. ; 19 cm
Publication of articles and art projects produced over the last four years, commissioned by the Research Group Art and Public Space of the Rietveld Academie, a partnership between the Rietveld Academie, the Sandberg Institute, the Universiteit Amsterdam, the Virtual Museum Zuidas and SKOR.

Surviving the Suburb : Versuche der Semi-Autarkie in Suburbia = Pogingen tot Semi-Autarkie in Suburbia / ed. Gregor Harbusch, Martin Luce, Ton Matton, Wim Timmermans. - Rotterdam : episode publishers, 2008. - geen paginering : ills. ; 24 cm
Dit boek presenteert een overzicht van Matton's (MattonOffice) en Timmermans' (WageningenUR) projecten, in combinatie met ontwerpen van architecten die op onconventionele wijze de ecologische en sociale uitdagingen van de suburbane ruimte aangaan.

Amerikaanse dromen : Frank Lloyd Wright en Nederland / redactie Herman van Bergeijk ; met bijdragen van Anthony Alofsin, Timo de Rijk, Mariëtte van Stralen [...et al.]. - Rotterdam : Uitgeverij 010, 2008. - 190 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Tot op de dag van vandaag doet de invloed van Frank Lloyd Wright op de Nederlandse architectuur zich gelden en lijken zijn ideeën over architectuur zelfs steeds populairder te worden, zoals te zien is in de architectuur van de meest recente uitbreidingswijken.
Van Doesburg, Oud, Duiker, Wils, Dudok [...et al.]

Otto Neurath : The Language of the Global Polis / Nader Vossoughian. - Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2008. - 175 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this book the author frames Otto Neurath as a theorist of modernity who sought to foster participatory and interactive approaches to social and urban planning, and suggests that Neurath's example might offer us pragmatic strategies through which to engage the political sphere today.

Cross Section : Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art 2008 / edited by Francis McKee and Louise Shelley ; text Alasdair Gray, Luca Frei, Jan Verwoert. - Glasgow : Gi Festival, 2008. - 93 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
Rodney Graham, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jim Lambie [...et al.]

Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007 / edited by Fiona Bradley. - Edinburgh ; London : Scottish Arts Council : British Arts Council, 2007. - 158 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
This book celebrates recent exhibitions of work by Scottish artists at the Venice Biennale, curated by Francis McKee, Kay Pallister, Rachel Bradley [...et al.]
Charles Avery, Jim Lambie, Cathy Wilkes [...et al.]

Broedplaats Europoort v/h "De Beer" / samenstelling en fotografie Paul Bogaers. - Amsterdam : Artimo, 2005. - 110 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Bevat register.
Dit boek is het resultaat van een opdracht die door de afdeling Collecties van het Nederlands fotomuseum werd verstrekt aan Paul Bogaers. Hem is gevraagd om, uitgaand en gebruikmakend van historisch fotomateriaal uit de archieven van onder meer het fotomuseum, een tentoonstelling en een boek samen te stellen over het verdwenen natuurmonument "De Beer".

Het Londen van de Beatles : Een gids met 467 Beatleslocaties in en om London / Piet Scheuders, Mark Lewisohn, Adam Smith. - Amsterdam : Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2008. - 234 p. : ills. : krtn. ; 19 cm
Bevat registers.
In London verwierven The Beatles de status van internationale popidolen en werden zij en de stad culturele iconen. Dit boek is een eerbetoon aan de locaties die een rol speelden in de geschiedenis van de groep en van Londen in een periode waarin zich grote sociale en culturele verschuivingen voordeden.

Forgotten Architects / text Myra Warhaftig. - London ; New York ; Berlin [...et al.] : Pentagram, 2007. - 48 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
In the 1920s and early 1930s German Jewish architects created some of the most magnificent modern buildings in Germany, predominantly in the capital Berlin, thus providing the emerging modernist movement with vital energy. In the years after 1933 many of them emigrated or were killed under Hitler's regime. Today, the majority of those architects and their groundbreaking work is sadly forgotten.

Worlds Away : New Suburban Landscapes / edited by Andrew Blauvelt ; text Beatriz Colomina, David Brooks, John Archer [...et al.]. - Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, 2008. - 333 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Feb. 16 - August 17, 2008. It is the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb.
Center for Landuse Interpretation (CLUI), Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham [...et al.]

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn / a project by Fritz Haeg ; texts by Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, Lesley Stern. - New York : Metropolis Books, 2008. - 126 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The Edible Estates Project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated by the architect and artist Fritz Haeg on Independence Day, 2005, with the planting of the first reginal prototype garden in the geographical center of the United States, Salina, Kansas.

Stad zoekt Boer : Internovatieprogramma Stad Platteland / redactie John Huige. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam School of Management, 2006. - 184 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Dit boek geeft een actueel beeld van de relatie tussen stad en platteland, gezien door een stedelijke bril. Ook is de Stedelijke agenda voor het Platteland opgenomen zolas die op 28 november 2006 aan de minister van Landbouw is aangeboden.

Stadsplanten : veldgids voor de stad / samenstelling Ton Denters. - 's-Gravenland : Fontaine Uitgevers, 2004. - 432 p. : ills. : krtn. ; 21 cm
Bevat register.
Steden zijn er primair voor de mensen. Hoe vol ze ook lijken, ze bieden volop plaats aan spontane natuur. Allerlei dieren vinden re onderdak en er is een gevarieerde wilde stadsflora.

CPULs : Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes : Designing Agriculture for Sustainable Cities / editor André Viljoen ; texts Katrin Bohn, Joe Howe. - Oxford [...et al.] : Architectural Press, 2005. - 280 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes index.
This book is about defining an urban design/planning conceptual approach to re-incorprating a productive landscape, including agriculture, into the human settlement.

Eating Architecture / edited by Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley. - Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2004. - 373 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Includes index.
The contributors to this book explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examinning the (often mataphorical) intersection of the preparation meals and the production of space.

Land Art : A Cultural Ecology Handbook / edited by Max Andrews ; contributions by Lara Almarcegui, Thomas Hirschhorn, Nils Norman [...et al.]. - London : RSA : Arts Council England, 2006. - 208 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Includes biographies.
Accompanying the first phase of the RSA Arts & Ecology programme, this compendium of essays, dialogues and commisioned projects by artists, ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators explore arts' varied modes of response to notions of territory, the Earth, and the emergencies of the 21st century.

The Century of Artists' Books / Johanna Drucker. - New York : Granary Books, 2007. - (first published in 1995). - 377 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Includes index.

Background Noise : Perspectives on Sound Art / Brandon LaBelle. - New York : The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. - 316 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book follows the development of sound art as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation and performance. LaBelle's  book is informed by spatial thinking, weaving architecture, environments and the specifics of location into the work of sound.

All that is solid melts into air : Notes on Tourism / concept and photography Delphine Bedel ; text Rachel Esner, Bruno Latour, Marco Pasi [...et al.]. - Rotterdam : episode publishers, 2008. - geen paginering : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes biographies.
Delphine Bedel brings into question the visual representation of leisure, architecture, and cultural artefacts. This book explores three complex and controversial tourist destinations and cultural heritages whose identity, use, and meaning have shifted radically over time; a giant Lenin statue buried, the monumental Nazi holiday resort in Prora, and the cliffs on Rügen.

Trading Places: back + forth / edited by Danielle van Zuijlen, Martijn Lucas Smit. - Haarlem ; Hoorn : Nieuwe Vide : Hotel Mariakapel, 2008. - 64 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Trading Places: back + forth is part of Prezent, a cultural collaboration between the Province of Noord-Holland and the Pommorski Region in Poland
Bart Lodewijks, Moritz Ebinger, PrintRoom / Karin de Jong [...et al.]

Networked Cultures : Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space / edited by Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer ; texts and projects Jochen Becker, Kyong Park, Oliver Ressler [...et al.]. - Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2008. - 320 p. : ills. ; 24 cm + DVD
Includes biographical references and index.
We live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. In this state of uncertainties, networks have become the most powerful tool in how we organize our lives, giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives.

Verb Crisis / edited by Mario Ballesteros [...et al.] ; texts and projects MVRDV, Markus Miessen, Ramon Prat [...et al.]. - Barcelona : Actar, 2007. - 294 p. : ills. ; 24 cm. - (Verb 6)
An architecture bookazine published three times a year with thematic contents.
The latest in the Verb series, Crisis presents architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of a world that is increasingly dense and interdependent.

Without and within : Essays on territory and the interior / Mark Pimlott. - Rotterdam : episode publishers, 2007. - 334 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Today, a multitude of interiors resemble each other regardless of their location or function. Shopping Malls, airports, office lobbies, museums - 'continuous' interiors for a mass public - all assume the same characteristics. The search for their ideas is at the hearth of the essays in this book, which describe the evolution of the contemporary public interior in the USA.

Kunstwerken & kunstwerken : Een exploratie van de artistieke en civieltechnische kunstwerken van de provincie Gelderland / concept en samenstelling Tijs van den Boomen, Jeanette Sanders, Pier Taylor ; tekst Jeroen Boomgaard, Melle Smets, Wouter Vanstiphout [...et al.]. - geen plaatsnaam : Provincie Gelderland, 2007. - 84 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Kunstwerken staan altijd in de belangstelling, maar naar civiele kunstwerken kijken weinigen om. Dit boek verschijnt aan de vooravond van het 25-jarig jubileum van de Gelderse eenprocentsregeling voor infrastructuur. Het boek belicht dertien artistieke en bijna duizend civiele kunstwerken in Gelderland.