Résumé : In the 1960s, the postwar push for endless growth and ever-increasing consumption gave rise to concerns about industrial pollution, resource depletion, and ecological collapse, inspiring a new generation of architects to rethink the core tenets of their profession. Published to accompany the first expansive survey of the history of environmental thinking in architecture, Emerging ecologies : Architecture and the rise of ennvironmentalism studies the role architects have played in defining our understanding of "nature" and the "environment", specifically during the emergence of the environmental movement. This richly illustrated illustrated publication presents more than forty-five architectural contributions - from Eleanor Raymond and Maria Telkes's groundbreaking work on solar houses to Buckminster Fuller's world ressource management system and the environmental symbolism of Emilio Ambasz- to explore the role designers played in both promoting the ecological cause and in outlining the very terms of their nascent field. Through an introductory essay by curator Carson Chan, sharply focused texts on each of the featured projects, and a concise historical timeline, Emerging ecologies documents the entanglements between ecology, design, and statecraft, allowing readers to take stock of historic milestones as architecture confronts today's climate emergencies.. Dans les années 1960, la dynamique de l'après-guerre en faveur d'une croissance sans fin et d'une consommation toujours plus importante a fait naître des inquiétudes concernant la pollution industrielle, l'épuisement des ressources et l'effondrement écologique, incitant une nouvelle génération d'architectes à repenser les principes fondamentaux de leur profession. Publié pour accompagner la première étude d'envergure sur l'histoire de la pensée environnementale en architecture, Emerging ecologies : Architecture and the rise of ennvironmentalism étudie le rôle joué par les architectes dans la définition de notre compréhension de la "nature" et de l'"environnement", en particulier lors de l'émergence du mouvement écologiste. Cette publication richement illustrée présente plus de quarante-cinq contributions architecturales - des travaux novateurs d'Eleanor Raymond et Maria Telkes sur les maisons solaires au système de gestion des ressources mondiales de Buckminster Fuller, en passant par le symbolisme environnemental d'Emilio Ambasz - afin d'explorer le rôle joué par les concepteurs dans la promotion de la cause écologique et dans la définition des termes mêmes de leur domaine naissant. Grâce à un essai introductif de Carson Chan, commissaire de l'exposition, à des textes pointus sur chacun des projets présentés et à une chronologie concise, Emerging ecologies documente les liens entre l'écologie, le design et l'administration, permettant aux lecteurs de faire le point sur les jalons historiques alors que l'architecture est confrontée aux urgences climatiques d'aujourd'hui.

Résumé : Catalogue de la 13ème édition de dOCUMENTA, qui s'est déroulée à Kassel (9 juin-16 septembre 2012), à Kabul (20 juin - 19 juillet 2012), à Alexandria/Caire (1-8 juillet 2012) et à Banff (2-15 août 2012). This volume is the book of all books : the catalog brings together essays, artists’ projects, and a garland of dOCUMENTA (13)’s core themes. It reproduces the publication series 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts as facsimiles or in new layouts, and contains contributions by Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Chus Martínez, Head of Department and Member of Core Agent Group

Résumé : Sommaire : Piecing together the American dream / Stephen Coppel -- Irresistible: the rise of the American print workshop / Susan Tallman -- 1. Pop art -- 2. Three giants of printmaking: Johns, Rauschenberg, Dine -- 3. The print workshop: Laboratories of experimentation and collaboration -- 4. Made in California: the West Coast experience -- 5. Persistence of abstraction: gestural and hard-edge 1960s-1970s -- 6. Minimalism and conceptualism from the 1970s -- 7. Photorealism: portraits and landscapes -- 8. The figure reasserted -- 9. Politics and dissent -- 10. Feminism, gender and the body -- 11. Race and identity: unresolved histories -- 12. Signs of the times.. The American Dream: From Pop to present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The 1960s was a period of change in the production, marketing and consumption of prints and the medium attracted a new generation of artists whose attitude towards making art had been conditioned by the monumentality and bold, eye-catching nature of popular imagery in postwar America, from advertising billboards to drive-in movies. Artists used to working on large canvases and huge sculptures created prints of an unprecedented ambition, scale and boldness in state-of-the-art workshops newly established on both the East and West coasts. Prints also became a means for expressing opinions on the great social issues of the day, from civil rights to the overt and covert role of government. This has continued, with feminism, gender, the body, race and identity, all topics represented in prints in a variety of stylistic approaches across the decades. The changing nature of American society provides a core element of the narrative, with prints offering a fascinating insight into contemporary thinking and attitudes.

Résumé : This two-book addition to 'The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné' persuasively demonstrates the subversive core of Warhol's art. Intent on radical departure from his portraiture in the early seventies, Warhol's production gradually became anything but 'just faces'. From portraits of athletes and self-portraits to his Skull and Hammer and Sickle series, the Torso and Sex Parts paintings, and his abstract Piss, Oxidation, and Cum canvases, volume 5 showcases Warhol's work as powerful, and provocative as ever