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    Thomas Putze Performances 2000-2020
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    Thomas Putze Performances 2000-2020

    The first publication of Thomas Putze's performances in one volume: full-on physical exertion guaranteed. Presented in English and German.Thomas Putze, born 1968 in Augsburg, is at first glance a true 'art maniac'. His roughly hewn and impertinent...
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  • ROCKstars
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    ROCKstars

    ROCKstars presents works that focus on the 'eternal material' in jewelry: they are declarations of love, experimental snapshots, or rebellious works revolving around precious stones. At Campus Idar-Oberstein, newcomers to the gemstone...
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    Karl Fritsch: Ruby Gold
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    Karl Fritsch: Ruby Gold

    Karl Fritsch (b. 1963), master of extravagant rings, returns with a publication that lures us deep into his world. Ruby Gold is a 'no-frills' pared-back book, without pagination, without essays. Instead it comprises eighty-one rings from the past twenty...
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    Danner Prize 2020
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    Danner Prize 2020

    The Danner Prize is an award presented to distinguished artists from Bavaria. The 100th anniversary of its establishment is now cause to present the current award winners and other exceptional submissions in a large exhibition and this comprehensive...
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    Insights into 19 Ateliers
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    Insights into 19 Ateliers

    Insights into the secretive worlds of artists' studiosSibylle Mania's Insights into 19 Ateliers are more than just a chronicle of studios and workshops - they are windows into the world of creative processes. Yet in these analog black and-white...
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    Enric Mestre
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    Enric Mestre

    A celebration of Enric Mestre's best creations and a perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover his timeless work. Includes essays by David Whiting and Romn de la Calle. Presented in English and Spanish.Despite the fundamental functions that...
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  • Jewellery in Context
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    Jewellery in Context

    This is an indispensable and enlightening text by one of the most renowned art historians and design theorists, about the work of the great Marjan Unger. The Dutch art historian and jewellery expert Marjan Unger died back in 2018, at...
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    Margit Hart
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    Margit Hart

    A comprehensive documentation of a special conceptual position in artistic jewellery, this is Margit Hart's first autobiography that unites her jewellery with the abstract photographic works for the first time.Austrian jewellery artist Margit Hart has...
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    Claus Bury
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    Claus Bury

    This beautiful book features all of Claus Bury's monumental sculptures in one volume - an impressive development of Land Art to wooden and ultimately steel construction. Presented in English and German. The monumental architectonic works by...
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    Otto Prutscher
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    Otto Prutscher

    Otto Prutscher (18801949)was one of the innovators of Viennese Modernism, an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the Secession to...
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    The Grotta Home by Richard Meier
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    The Grotta Home by Richard Meier

    An extensive look into the Grotta Home by Richard Meier, from conception to creation. A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to describe the remarkable residence of the Grotta Home. Richard Meier designed it to house...
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    Sam Kramer
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    Sam Kramer

    Toni Greenbaum wittingly traces the life and work of Sam Kramer, one of the most eccentric American jewellery artists of the modern age. Presented in English. Kramer's strongly expressive, organic work and surreal workshops in New...
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    Amphora
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    Amphora

    A publication on the extraordinary vessels and glazed by the Belgian company Amphora, with large scale photographs that allow an in-depth study of the hand-thrown vessels. Rogier Vandeweghe established himself as an independent potter in Sint...
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    Sverre Bjertns
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    Sverre Bjertns

    Sverre Bjertns (*1976 in Tnsberg) began his career as a student of the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum (*1944), who was successfully committed to the style of the Old Masters. It was here that Bjertns devoted himself primarily to classical portraiture,...
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    Pl Vigeland
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    Pl Vigeland

    Alongside stringency of form and precision of execution, Vigeland develops surprising variability in his handling of the material. From his beginnings in noble metals, which he used in his jewellery, his path led to an intensified and meanwhile almost...
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    Vessel/Sculpture 3

    This third volume of "Vessel / Sculpture. German and International Ceramics since 1946"continues the series, against a backdrop of a renewed and extensive increase of modern studio ceramics in the museum's collection. As in the previous publications, the...
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    Handmade in Germany
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    Handmade in Germany

    Manufacturers from Germany enjoy a worldwide reputation. Whether porcelain, watches, organs or writing implements, the origin of artisanal craftsmanship lies in the immaterial cultural heritage of traditional handicrafts training in central Europe...
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    Junger Kunstkreis Fulda
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    Junger Kunstkreis Fulda

    From 1958 to 1973 the Young Art Circle of Fulda (JUKU) was intensively engaged with post-war modernist art. With its mentor Karlfried Staubach almost a hundred exhibitions were carried out that not only enriched the cultural life of Fulda but shook it up...
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    Materiality
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    Materiality

    Materiality: The Miller Ceramic Art Collection features masterpieces highlighting the artistic ideals of numerous luminaries of mid-twentieth century to early twenty-first century American ceramic art.In addition, the collection includes important...
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    Tone Vigeland
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    Tone Vigeland

    Scandinavian studio jewellery is simply unimaginable without Tone Vigeland (b. 1938) and her work. Her distinctive objects flatter the human body, captivate through their dimensions and volume, and yet are assembled from a variety of the tiniest...
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    Izmir
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    Izmir

    With over 8,000 years of history, Izmir is among the world's oldest cities. Founded as Smyrna on the shores of the Aegean Sea, the city has been home to all manner of cultures over the centuries. Each one left behind its architectural traces, turning the...
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    Private Shelters
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    Private Shelters

    During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa is an obvious example of such a shelter. It has reemerged as an object of desire, because of the urge to...
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    German Architecture Annual 2021
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    German Architecture Annual 2021

    The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This years edition of the annual presents the shortlist of 26 buildings selected...
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  • The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
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    The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites

    The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites is the first book to present all 25 major global launch sites from Wallops Island in the United States to Tanegashima in Japan and Woomera in Australia. It explains their architecture and geography and is...
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    The History of Architecture
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    The History of Architecture

    Organised chronologically, this volume analyses the dynamics, convergences, and ideological clashes that have given life to the most significant movements of the twentieth century and today to the season of recent phantasmagoric buildings of the...
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    Radical Normal
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    Radical Normal

    The cycle of production and consumption, artificially accelerated by advertising and marketing, has characterised our society for decades. This cycle has recently also taken hold of the architecture of the city, leading to a waste that is both...
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  • Architectural Diagrams 2
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    Architectural Diagrams 2

    In the last few decades, the "diagram" has evolved into a constitutive, generative medium for the architectural design process and is now an everyday term used in the context of design. The diagram represents an imaginative process that enables...
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    Spying on Moscow
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    Spying on Moscow

    This collector's album presents Moscow's architectural icons. With photographic precision, Denis Esakov captures the fifth facade of the largest European metropolis: roofs, domes, and cube-like buildings stacked on top of each other. By gazing through...
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    Architecture in Asmara
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    Architecture in Asmara

    The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and its largest settlement. Its beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history...
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  • Prefabricated Housing
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    Prefabricated Housing

    Prefabricated housing has long since ceased to mean the disfigurement of the urban landscape with monotonous grey boxes. Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings...
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    Architectural Guide Venice
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    Architectural Guide Venice

    Venice is undoubtedly one of the most written upon cities and certainly the most photographed one. And yet another guide on Venice? Five walking tours take you to discover the modern Venice, the less known side of the city, hidden and far away from the...
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    Behind the Iron Curtain
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    Behind the Iron Curtain

    Felix Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process. He explains how Soviet design and planning institutes...
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    Berlin: City Without Form
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    Berlin: City Without Form

    Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of "automatic urbanism." More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the forces of that epoch-modernity, fascism, two world wars, Stalinism, socialism, the Cold War, revolt,...
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    Shenzhen
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    Shenzhen

    One of China's great metropolises - a boomtown without a past and hungry for the futureFounded only in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping's reforms, Shenzhen with its 12.5 million inhabitants is a young city. It's also a...
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    The Nuclear Dream

     The Nuclear Dream offers an insight into a disappearing world whose rooms and technology often appear sacred - a fitting tribute to an era of boundless energy - one whose blue glow captured a generation and proclaimed the start of a new era...
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    Moscow: Art for Architecture
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    Moscow: Art for Architecture

    Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist...
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    Beer Hiking Switzerland
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    Beer Hiking Switzerland

    The most refreshing way to discover Switzerland!Monika Saxer, the author, hiking guide and beer lover,reveals 59 routes for walking and beer drinking enthusiasts.
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  • Comment Peut-on Sortir de la Pauvret Gnrationelle?
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    Comment Peut-on Sortir de la Pauvret Gnrationelle?

    La pauvret, terme hideux dcrit un tat conomique, un tat mental limitant l'panouissement humain. La pauvret, ce cauchemar qui gche la projection vers l'avenir ; la pauvret cre, voulue et entretenue par une mentalit rtrograde encadre par des thories et des...
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  • Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering
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    Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering

    Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering is a clear and authoritative, line by line commentary upon "The Seven Points of Mind Training" a classic text of mind training practice, which contains the pith instructions that show the way in which to transform...
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  • Patrones en la vacuidad
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    Patrones en la vacuidad

    Cmo responde la enseanza de Buda a las preguntas ms profundas de nuestra existencia? Qu hace que su pensamiento sea nico entre otros sistemas de pensamiento? La respuesta se encuentra en sus enseanzas sobre el 'origen dependiente', las cuales contienen...
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  • River of Memory
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    River of Memory

    The memories, dreams and reflections of a modern lama born in the West who became heir to the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles tells the remarkable story of the scholar and meditation master Lama Jampa Thaye one of the...
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  • The Buddha Meets Socrates
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    The Buddha Meets Socrates

    The Buddha Meets Socrates: A Philosopher's Journal is a first-person account of teaching and learning. In 2004, Harrison J. Pemberton embarked on a journey to teach Western philosophy to a group of young Buddhist monks in India. One scholar in particular...
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  • The Four Seals of the Dharma
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    The Four Seals of the Dharma

    Upon completing the path that led him to fully develop compassion and wisdom, Shakyamuni arrived at enlightenment, the state of Buddhahood that marks the end of suffering.Replying to the requests made of him, he transmitted three cycles of teachings to...
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  • A Taste of Buddhist Practice
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    A Taste of Buddhist Practice

    Meditation is often presented as the key Buddhist method. However, it is actually only one means of this path of liberation. Karmapa Thaye Dorje sketches out the essential points to enter on this path in a way that is both modern and accessible...
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  • Wisdom in Exile
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    Wisdom in Exile

    Wisdom in Exile provides a new insight into Buddhism's encounter with Western culture and the Western mind in the early 21st century. Jampa Thaye has trained for over 40 years with some of the foremost lamas of Tibetan Buddhism, yet is a Westerner,...
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  • A Path of Practice
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    A Path of Practice

    In Toward Awakening: The Bodhi Path Program, Knzig Shamar Rinpoche offers his vision of focused Dharma practice with the power to lead practitioners in today's world toward achieving the state of awakening. His emphasis lies in general on...
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  • Bringing Mind Training to Life
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    Bringing Mind Training to Life

    An engaging and lively exploration by Shamar Rinpoche of the frequently studied Buddhist subject called lojong, or mind training. Shamar Rinpoche bases his discussion on a classic text by the eminent sixteenth-century Buddhist teacher, the Fifth...
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    Audacity and Tradition
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    Audacity and Tradition

    The masters of a Buddhist tradition are part of a succession of successions while prolonging it. Their thoughts and teachings echo those of their lineage, but each master presents them in a new light, according to the needs of the time.This is the case...
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