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Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More

Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More
In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects. Gropius wrote in his manifesto Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar that “There is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan.” His new school, which featured faculty that included the likes of Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, did indeed erase the centuries-old line between applied arts and fine arts. Bauhaus architecture sandblasted away the ornate flourishes common with early 20th century buildings, favoring instead the clean, sleek lines of industrial factories. Nowadays, of course, getting one of those Bauhaus tea kettles, or even an original copy of Gropius’s manifesto, would cost a small fortune. Click here to pick out individual works or here to just get all of them. 1. And here are some key Bauhaus journals: Related:  gabigabiPublic DomainsContemporanea

Vidéothèque d'Alexandrie | Vidéos culturelles sur le web The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online Back in January, 2012, we mentioned that the Guggenheim (the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed modern art museum in NYC) had put 65 art catalogues on the web, all free of charge. We’re happy to report that, between then and now, the number of free texts has grown to 109. Published between 1937 and 1999, the art books/catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, and Kandinsky. Plus there are other texts (e.g., Masterpieces of Modern Art and Abstract Expressionists Imagists) that tackle meta movements and themes. Anyone interested in the history of the Guggenheim will want to spend time with a collection called “The Syllabus.” It contains five books by Hilla Rebay, the museum’s first director and curator. To read any of these 109 free art books, you will just need to follow these simple instructions. 1.) You can find many more free art books from the Getty and the Met below.

L'incontro con l'androide alla Fondazione Prada Un uomo osserva una bella donna. Questa donna balla al centro di una pista, in un piccolo club di via Padova, a Milano. A un certo punto la donna ricambia l’uomo con uno sguardo. È l’inizio di qualcosa? Questa scena, che ho molto sintetizzato, è contenuta in un racconto (inedito) che ho avuto modo di leggere. Quando incontriamo lo sguardo di qualcuno, che vi sia seduzione o meno, dentro di noi accade qualcosa. Ora, scrivo queste righe dentro la sala Podium della bellissima Fondazione Prada, a Milano. Per 40 minuti l’androide – ma non esiste, chiedo provocatoriamente ed esplorativamente, un nome più gentile, più corretto? Scrivo questi appunti su un taccuino, dopo essermi a mia volta seduto. Mentre scrivo e nell’autodiagnosi provo a sondare l’oscurità di questa relazione, le mie orecchie sono ancora piene di molte cose ascoltate e lette, nei giorni scorsi, a proposito della maternità surrogata.

Comment promouvoir votre boutique via Instagram Lorsque Martha Porter, la créatrice de Buried Diamond remplit sa boutique Etsy, les articles partent généralement assez rapidement, certains quelques minutes seulement après avoir été publiés sur le site. Une grande partie de l’affluence est générée par sa présence active sur Instagram, l’application de partage de photos pour smartphone qu’elle utilise pour promouvoir ses sorties de produits en édition limitée. “Il y a tellement de place pour la spontanéité,” déclare t-elle. “Si j’ai une seconde de libre, à tout moment, je vais l’utiliser pour faire quelque chose. J’adore le fait de pouvoir partager ces moments.” Martha, dont les pendentifs en céramique décalés et colorés sont un succès auprès de ses abonnés Instagram, fait partie des vendeurs Etsy – de plus en plus nombreux – à utiliser la plate-forme pour promouvoir leur marque. 1. Vous vous demandez quel type de contenu vous devriez créer pour votre compte Instagram ? Les nombreux visages de #fridapancakelongbody, la chatte d’Erin 2.

Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Related Content: Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online

La mostra Ennesima secondo Roberto Ago Scritto da Roberto Ago | domenica, 20 dicembre 2015 · 68 Ennesima, veduta della mostra presso La Triennale di Milano, 2015 L’EREDITÀ E IL VALORE Qualche anno prima di spirare, alla richiesta di indicarci quali artisti secondo lui avessero saputo ereditare ovvero tradire le italiche radici dell’arte, Luciano Fabro lasciò l’aula sbigottita indicando in Maurizio Cattelan l’unico erede degno di essere menzionato. CAPITOLI I, II Ad accogliere lo spettatore di Ennesima sono i due grandi pigmalioni dell’arte nostrana di stanza a Brera. Ennesima – veduta della mostra presso La Triennale di Milano, 2015 CAPITOLO III A seguire questa seconda esposizione epigonale, ancorché magistralmente allestita, è una ricognizione intorno alle pratiche verbo-visive made in Italy, eredità concettuale degli Anni di piombo squisitamente incastonata in un format burocratico. IL TRADIMENTO/NON-TRADIMENTO DEI PADRI Se la misura è colma, il colmo è misurabile. Roberto Ago

Passages by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre Générique réalisateur Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre producteur scénariste animation Brigitte Archambault montage Kara Blake effets spéciaux caméra Korbett Matthews design sonore Hugo Brochu effets sonores Lise Wedlock New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free to Download and Use When I was a kid, my father brought home from I know not where an enormous collection of National Geographic magazines spanning the years 1917 to 1985. I found, tucked in almost every issue, one of the magazine’s gorgeous maps—of the Moon, St. Petersburg, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe’s ever-shifting boundaries. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. What does this mean? Can you—as I did with my neatly folded, yellowing archive—have all the maps in full-color print? This, explains the NYPL, “is the process where digital images of maps are stretched, placing the maps themselves into their geographic context, rendered either on the website or with tools such as Google Earth.” The “warper” is a special feature that helps place historical maps in a modern visual field, but it in no way ruins the enjoyment of those maps as archival pieces or art objects. Related Content:

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