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Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines gives an intriguing insight into the historical relationship between cats and humans by exploring the folklore, myths, and legends that relate to cats from around the globe.For thousands of years, cats and humankind have been inextricably intertwined. From the Ancient Egyptian Goddess Bastet to the cat demon Yokai of Japan, people have been fascinated, enthralled, and horrified in equal measure by everything feline-related.Throughout history, cats have been revered and reviled and everything in between.Worshipped as divine, blamed for plague and pestilence, or labeled as the demonic companions of witches—whether fair or foul, no other animal has attracted such consistent attention, a fact strongly illustrated by the vast number of myths, legends, sayings, superstitions, and tales that exist regarding these enigmatic creatures.Today, mankind is no less under the feline thrall, with cat memes, videos, and celebrity cat accounts numbering among the highest-ranking entertainment across the internet. Unknown to many, this cultural fascination has a deep and rich history than spans continents and millennia. Discover the roots of this age-old captivation with our feline counterparts and why they have been loved—or otherwise—by so many.

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Warum sind manche regionale Architekturen berühmter als andere? The Making of Alpine Architecture untersucht die kulturellen Strukturen, die hinter der zeitgenössischen alpenländischen Architektur stehen, und analysiert die Ereignisse, Publikationen und Gebäude, die den architektonischen Diskurs auf internationaler Ebene geprägt haben. Mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Vorarlberg und Graubünden beleuchtet das Buch die zugrundeliegenden Dynamiken und zeichnet nach, wie Veränderungen in der Architekturkritik seit den späten 1980er-Jahren ein neues kulturelles Bild der Alpen hervorgebracht haben. Durch die Verknüpfung von Historiografie und detaillierten Fallstudien wird gezeigt, wie gezielte kulturelle Interventionen nicht nur regionale Identität formen, sondern auch die Qualität und Rezeption der Architektur weit über den Alpenraum hinaus beeinflussten. Einblicke in alpine Architektur und ihre internationale Rezeption Verbindung von kulturtheoretischen Ansätzen mit Fallstudien zu Arbeiten von Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Gion A. Caminada u. a. Strategien zur Förderung regionaler architektonischer Identität und Qualität What makes some regional architecture more famous than others? The Making of Alpine Architecture investigates the cultural construction behind contemporary Alpine architecture, exploring the events, publications, and buildings that have shaped architectural discourse on an international scale. With a particular focus on the Austrian Vorarlberg and the Swiss Grisons, the book examines the underlying dynamics and traces how shifts in architectural criticism from the late 1980s onward have fostered a new cultural image of the Alps. By weaving together historiography and detailed case studies, it reveals how strategic cultural interventions not only shaped regional identity but also influenced the quality and reception of architecture far beyond the mountains. Examines Alpine architecture and its global reception Merges cultural theory with case studies including works by Peter Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Gion A. Caminada and others Identifies strategies to strengthen regional architectural identity and quality

Milano Street Art è un progetto editoriale dedicato alla street art e al writing milanese

Invents and defines a new category of groundbreaking architecture.Architects, historians, and theorists have been obsessed with fascist architecture since postmodernism. But who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? This book is the first attempt at creating a working definition.Significant scholarship has already been presented about anti-colonial architecture, militant modernism, liberation architecture, and so forth, yet antifascist architecture is an avenue that remains to be explored. Antifascist Architecture collects a kaleidoscope of diverse architects who heroically aligned themselves with antifascist struggles around the world. It is written for students and practitioners of architecture, but also activists and scholars in the social sciences who are interested in antifascist history, theory, and practice.

"Ettore Sottsass, l'attività grafica" ricostruisce per la prima volta in modo sistematico un capitolo poco esplorato dell'oper

Nell'era digitale, la Silicon Valley era considerata il più grande polo dell'Information Technology al mondo e la più potente

Il volume ricostruisce la storia del progetto architettonico per il polo di produzione artistica e culturale Mare Culturale Ur

Il volume è dedicato ad uno dei momenti più complessi e seducenti della storia dell'arte europea: il Barocco

Un volume per scoprire il graphic design attraverso la sua storia, la teoria e le applicazioni pratiche, dalle sue origini fin

Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud’s lifelong focus on the human face and form, tracing the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1930s to the early 21st century.Lucian Freud (1922–2011) is celebrated as one of the great figurative realist artists of the twentieth century, who devoted his artistic life to portraiture. Famously stating that ‘everything is a portrait’, he created intensely observed portraits of animals and plants, as well as his family members and those in his social circle and daily life.Drawing into Painting explores how drawing remained central to Freud’s artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel, and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation, and his evolving way of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again.Alongside a selection of key paintings by Freud and others, the book includes conversations with David Dawson, Freud’s close friend and assistant, and Bella Freud, the artist’s daughter. Insightful essays by writer and curator Catherine Lampert, British Museum drawings curator Isabel Seligman, and acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín further illuminates Freud’s world and legacy.

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Worldrenowned director Luca Guadagnino and artist Alessio Bolzoni present an artfully curated sequence of unseen and iconic photographs and texts by Luigi Ghirri in this elegant volume. Produced on the occasion of Guadagnino and Bolzoni's cocurated exhibition 'Luigi Ghirri: Felicita', the books offers an idiosyncratic path through Ghirri's works, moving from wry images of discarded magazine cuttings and details of materials to domestic spaces and images from Ghirri's travels around his home country and beyond, saturated in colour and sunlight. These disparate works resonantly piece together various elements and themes in this singular artist's practice. Three essays by Ghirri punctuate the book - 'The Open Work', 'The Impossible Landscape', and 'House, Bridge, Gate' - opening up new vistas of photography's infinite potential among a distinctly personal selection of his work.

Un libro di grande impatto visivo sui tatuaggi in stile giapponese, di ampia portata e grande profondità, che offre ai lettori un quadro esaustivo dell'influenza esercitata dal tatuaggio tradizionale giapponese su alcuni tra i più noti artisti del settore che operano ai nostri giorni. L'irezumi, o tatuaggio giapponese, affonda le proprie radici nell'antica cultura giapponese. Questo libro mette in luce 45 artisti maggiori del tatuaggio provenienti da tutto il mondo, spaziando dai più fedeli al tatuaggio giapponese tradizionale a coloro i quali intendono quest'arte come punto di partenza per esprimere la propria personalissima visione. Organizzato per continente, il testo si basa su interviste con gli artisti durante le quali essi spiegano la propria formazione artistica, gli inizi della carriera da tatuatori e lo sviluppo del loro interesse per lo stile giapponese. I protagonisti ci rendono partecipi anche delle loro fonti di ispirazione: altri artisti tatuatori e forme tradizionali d'arte giapponese come le stampe su legno dell'ukiyo-e. Il libro esplora la storia antica del tatuaggio giapponese, includendo un racconto cinese del III secolo che descrive il tatuaggio come indicatore della classe sociale e amuleto di protezione dei marinai. La maggior parte delle pagine contiene fotografie di grande formato e dettagliate di tatuaggi e stampe, creazioni degli artisti trattati, che mostrano le nuove tendenze di questa antica forma d'arte. Il libro riflette la crescente popolarità internazionale del tatuaggio giapponese e offre un quadro esaustivo di come lo stile giapponese tradizionale sia di ispirazione per alcuni tra i più noti artisti tatuatori che operano oggi.

Per la prima volta in Italia, una grande mostra che racconta visivamente le tappe fondamentali della grafica giapponese in un