Features the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones. This book revisits and reanimates the history of Modernist design, while reminding us that built spaces can be defined in social, political, psychological, physical and aesthetic terms.
Re-examining the use and translation of photographic imagery, this work features 21 artists whose work draws upon varied photographic sources - from amateur snapshots to news and magazine pictures. It explores how the significance and content of an image changes dramatically when it is translated into a different medium.
Devoted to Tom Friedman's body of work over the years, this book features over 250 colour illustrations and encompasses 200 artworks that reflect Friedman's humour, his painstaking craftsmanship, and the unending inventiveness that distinguishes his work.
French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne has traveled the world since 1976 in search of birds to photograph. His quest revolves around an encounter - secret and furtive - with the bird of the moment. This book features the 68 photographs taken by Mylayne between 1992 and 2008.
Takes readers on a guided tour of some of the world's leading museums and some of the most unusual. Making unexpected connections and juxtapositions, this book allows readers to perceive and enjoy the beautiful, the bizarre and the downright perverse in places we never thought of looking before.