Na een aanduiding van de verschillende soorten musea wordt ingegaan op tal van problemen die zich er voor kunnen doen. Hierbij wordt aandacht besteed aan de interne organisatie, administratie, schenkingen, beveiliging, werkprogramma, opstelling, conserveren en registratie.

Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details-overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. Now there is a place where architects can find vital information essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes-in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. Materials, Structures, and Standards distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and offers and easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable-and most requested-types of architectural information

Fotoboek met een selectie van monumenten in Nederland.

De principes van de cisterciënzerkunst, die gebaseerd zijn op het armoedeideaal, en de invloed van Bernardus van Clairvaux (ca. 1090-1153) op de kloosterlijke bouwkunst.

Volg Vincent van Gogh door Europa, langs alle plaatsen waar hij woonde en werkte.0Vincent leefde in een spannende tijd. Er veranderde van alles en er werden om de haverklap nieuwe uitvindingen gedaan. Reizen deed Vincent best veel. Bij elkaar heeft hij in vier verschillende landen duizenden kilometers afgelegd. En waar hij ook was , Vincent schreef bijna altijd en overal brieven aan zijn broer Theo. Die stuurde dan geld terug, zodat Vincent zich alleen maar met schilderen hoefde bezig te houden. Theo bewaarde alles wat Vincent hem stuurde: brieven tekeningen en schilderijen. Het is dus dankzij Theo dat we nu zoveel van Vincent weten. En dat er nog ongeveer 1300 tekeningen, zo'n 850 schilderijen en ruim 800 brieven uit Nederland, Engeland, België en Frankrijk bewaard zijn gebleven.

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Belgian-born Frans Masereel (1889–1972) was one of the greatest woodcut artists of the twentieth century. Ingeniously portraying the human experience through dramatic art, this novel-without-words, crafted from 167 intricate woodcuts, is considered to be the Flemish artist's masterpiece. A feast for the eyes and the imagination, this powerful visual narrative details the life of an ordinary man. From the first bustling frame to the last haunting image, we are deeply drawn into the hero's day-to-day encounters, and discover a spirit in quest—one that we can profoundly relate to, emotionally and intellectually. Through each extraordinarily vivid depiction, readers feel the hero's happiness, grief, awe, and despair.

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars--nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of "modern identity."

The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy, as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious "inner" conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. With the help of much unpublished or long-forgotten archival material (including many little-known photographs), he investigates the process of constructing an "empire" of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy.

Toepfer presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with less-known but equally fascinating body culture practitioners. His book is certain to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism.

Design Basics Index is full of inspiration for those working in the graphics industry, or those seeking to find a way in. The book guides the reader through a progression of visual and conceptual theories to samples and exercises that will stretch the designer's imagination and creativity. Also included is a section of advice and strategies for gaining agency and freelance work in graphic design, one of the most popular and difficult industries to break into. The Index series has become successful and popular for its hard-working approach and its vigorous and inspiring exercises.

Nederlandstalige catalogus Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges, paru a l'occasion de l'exposition organisee au Metropolitan Museum of Art a New York ( 14 avril-31 juillet 1994 ). Etat excellent. prima staat ! Petrus Christus als een kunstenaar met heel eigen gevoeligheden. Anders dan Van Eyck, die in dienst van de Bourgondische hertogen werkte, vond Christus zijn clientèle onder de burgers en de rijke buitenlandse kooplieden die zich in Brugge hadden gevestigd. Om die reden weerspiegelt zijn werk in menig opzicht de artistieke normen van zijn tijd op een veelomvattender wijze dan de kunst van Van Eyck, en is de studie van zijn leven en werk van bijzonder belang voor een beter begrip van de vroege kunst in de Nederlanden.

Essay over de invloed van het cultuurpessimisme van de Duitse filosoof op het werk van de Nederlandse schilder (1900-1983).

"This book is the first to describe the growing convergence during the last decade towards a new classical style - a return to painting and building within the western classical tradition. Often misread as Neo-Conservatism, this style cuts across the socio-political spectrum as a radical departure from Modernism. Like the revolutionary classicism of the 1790s and the Free-Style Classicism of the 1900s, it has social and moral roots and is variable in genre. With his customary style and originality, Jencks places this international movement in a historical context and defines the intentions which inform it, the rules which govern it, and the salient characteristics of its various manifestations. In art, five major trends are distinguished: Metaphysical Classicism, which includes Carlo Maria Mariani, Gerard Garouste and Malcolm Morley; Narrative Classicism, which embraces the work of Hockney and Kitaj; Allegorical Classical as exemplified by the work of, among others, Stone Roberts, Bruno Civitico and Lincoln Perry; Realist Classicism, including artists as diverse as John De Andrea and Ben Johnson; and Classical Sensibility, which covers, among others, Avigdor Arikha, Michael Andrews and Milet Andrejevic. Architecture is split into four major groups - the Fundamentalists, Revivalists, Urbanists and Eclectics - and the work of architects as diverse as Takefumi Aida, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, James Stirling and Michael Graves is discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Behandelt en toont werk van 13 architecten uit diverse landen. Waaronder Norman Foster en Rem Koolhaas

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A good hot bath is one of the most sensual pleasures in life. More than a matter of cleanliness, it holds a mirror up to the prevailing culture - a social activity at the Roman baths, an act of purification in the Oriental hammam, contemplative in the Japanese furo and restorative in the Scandinavian sauna. Revealing the secrets of bathrooms from the hedonistic and Epicurean world of the Roman thermae to the simmering warmth of the medieval bathhouses, from the 19th-century cabinet de toilette in its disguise as a boudoir to the comfort and technological efficiency of the modern bathroom, 'The Book of the Bath' is an exceptionally well-documented and beautifully illustrated account of bathing through the ages.

This work illustrates the earliest pioneers of 20th-century design, who devoted their time to creating what is now known as "Avantgarde design". It covers over 200 original pieces from the collection of Dusseldorf art dealer and collector Torsten Brohan.

De invloedrijke beweging in de beeldende kunst, die met ingang van 1917 in het gelijknamige tijdschrift en in kunstwerken abstractie propageerde.

Aan de hand van 22 voorbeelden van overwegend in Den Haag gemaakt zilver wordt de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse zilver belicht.

Alles over het verschijnsel Bed. Met illustraties