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Wicked Arts Assignments

Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education

Published by Valiz.
Edited with text by Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer. Interviews by Pavèl van Houten, Jorge Lucero, Nina Paim, Erik Schrooten, Stephanie Springgay.

Fun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts—for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines

PUBLISHER
Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 color / 30 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/2/2021
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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 16   

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ISBN 9789492095756 TRADE
List Price: $25.00 CAD $35.00

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A New Program for Graphic Design

Published by Inventory Press/D.A.P..
By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton.

A toolkit for visual literacy in the 21st century

PUBLISHER
Inventory Press/D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/17/2019
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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 45   

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ISBN 9781941753217 TRADE
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Taking a Line for a Walk

Assignments in design education

Published by Spector Books.
Edited with text by Nina Paim, Emilia Bergmark, Corinne Gisel.

Assignments can give instructions, describe an exercise, present a problem, set out rules, propose a game, stimulate a process, or simply throw out questions. Taking a Line for a Walk brings attention to something that is often neglected: the assignment as a pedagogical element and verbal artefact of design education. This book is a compendium of 224 assignments, edited by Nina Paim and coedited by Emilia Bergmark. A reference book for educators, researchers, and students alike, it includes both contemporary and historical examples and offers a space for different lines of design pedagogy to converge and converse. An accompanying essay by Corinne Gisel takes a closer look at the various forms assignments can take and the educational contexts they exist within. Taking a Line for a Walk derived from an exhibition of the same name at the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2014.

PUBLISHER
Spector Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 10 x 8.75 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 1/9/2016
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ISBN 9783959050814 TRADE
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Design Is Storytelling

Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
By Ellen Lupton.

Ellen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how storytelling shapes great design

PUBLISHER
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/21/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 24   

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ISBN 9781942303190 TRADE
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Blueprint for Counter Education

Published by Inventory Press.
By Maurice R. Stein, Larry Miller and Marshall Henrichs. Text by Paul Cronin, Adam Michaels, Jeffrey Schnapp.

Radical pedagogy from Bauhaus to Black Mountain: a defining document of '60s counterculture

PUBLISHER
Inventory Press

BOOK FORMAT
Boxed, Paperback, 2 vols, 8 x 10.75 in. / 272 pgs / 3 duotone / 400 bw / 3 posters.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/26/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 23   

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ISBN 9781941753095 TRADE
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By R. Buckminster Fuller.

In this accessible volume, first published in 1969, Fuller offers advice on how to guide "spaceship earth" toward a sustainable future

PUBLISHER
Lars Müller Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 152 pgs / 7 images.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/15/2008
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ISBN 9783037781265 TRADE
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The Photographer's Eye

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
By John Szarkowski.

A bestselling and indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography, from the legendary MoMA director and curator John Szarkowski

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 9 in. / 156 pgs / 173 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2007
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Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 177   

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ISBN 9780870705274 TRADE
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Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 35 reproductions.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/2/2002
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Catalog: FALL 2002 p. 179   

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ISBN 9780870702822 TRADE
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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
By John Szarkowski.

Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers.

"This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation," says Szarkowski in his introduction to this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art's photography collection. A visually splendid album, the book is both a treasury of remarkable photographs and a lively introduction to the aesthetics and the historical development of photography.

Since 1930, when the Museum accessioned its first photograph, it has assembled an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of pictures for preservation, study and exhibition. Among the outstanding figures represented here are Hill and Adamson, Cameron, O'Sullivan, Atget, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Weston, Kertész, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Lange, Brassaï, Ansel Adams, Shomei Tomatsu, Frank, Arbus and Friedlander.

Some of these photographs are classics, familiar and well-loved favorites, many are surprising, little-known works by the masters of the art.

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 100 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2009
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 40   

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ISBN 9780870705151 TRADE
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Looking at Photography

Published by Damiani.
By Stephen Frailey.

How to read photographs: the new essential primer

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs / 100 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/7/2020
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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 32   

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ISBN 9788862087025 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $63.00

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