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The packed audiences of darkened cinema rooms are no more. People are gradually drifting backhome to lounge in front of a multitude of online platforms, far less expensive than a trip to thepicture palace. Habits have changed... the cinema is no longer a world of magic.Movie theatres have lost their splendour, often pushed into the suburbs and choked left and right byfast-food chains as if they were ashamed to exist at all.However, some of this fabulous heritage dedicated to the stuff of dreams which cinemas once werestill exists, especially in France. This is one of the few countries left where theatres are still beingbuilt, sometimes with audacious architecture. Also, France is a place where their demise is ferventlydenied.Sometimes, on a street corner, a forgotten but flamboyant façade recalls past glories. It's there toremind everyone that cinema is immortal.Simon Edelstein, whether in search of decaying or completely abandoned historic cinemas, orexploring lovingly restored or spectacular contemporary buildings, has scoured the roads of Francefor over 10 years, in cities and countryside, to seek out this exceptional heritage.

A house, a life. Discovering Giovanni Segantini in a spectacular photographic book on the artist's house in Maloja.<BR><BR>Maloja is a small Swiss alpine village at 1817 metres. Here stands Casa Segantini, built in 1886 and still owned by the family, which has preserved numerous period photographs, documents and original furnishings, including the famous Bugatti furniture. In front of the Segantini family chalet there is a small wooden round building, the so-called Atelier Segantini, built in 1898. Here, in fact, the artist never painted, preferring to paint en plein air, immersed in nature and in contact with his beloved mountains. It was rather his studio, in which he kept a valuable library. Designed by the artist himself, the 70-meter in diameter studio is a true-to-scale wooden model of the Engadin Pavilion, constructed for the 1900 Paris World Exhibition. It was designed to display a huge picture of the Bergell and Engadin countryside on its 220-meter long wall, but the work remained unfinished.

Die Fotografische Langzeitbeobachtung Schlieren ist ein vielbeachtetes Projekt zur Dokumentation der Siedlungsentwicklung in der Schweiz. 15 Jahre lang wurde fotografisch untersucht, wie Bautätigkeit und urbane Entwicklung den Charakter einer typischen Schweizer Vorortsgemeinde im Agglomerationsgürtel verändern. Als Beispiel diente die Stadt Schlieren im Zürcher Limmattal, deren Bevölkerung im Untersuchungszeitraum 2005-2020 von 13 000 auf 20 000 Einwohnende wuchs. 69 Standorte in ganz Schlieren sind unter identischen Bedingungen alle zwei Jahre fotografiert worden und zeigen die Veränderungen im räumlichen Zusammenspiel von Gebäuden, Strassen und Grünflächen. Parallel dazu wurden themenbezogene Serien von Detailaufnahmen erstellt, die auf einzelne Objekte fokussieren und von Aneignung, Gestaltung und Ästhetik der Lebensräume erzählen: Ladenfronten, Hauseingänge, Spielplätze, Garageneinfahrten usw. Dieses zweibändige Buch bildet nun den Abschluss der Langzeitstudie. Im Archiv-Band zeigen die jeweils acht Aufnahmen pro Standort, wie sich Schlieren an den 69 Orten in den vergangenen 15 Jahren verändert hat. Der Essay-Band bietet neben themenbezogenen Foto-Serien eine vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Studienthema durch Essays, Analysen, Interviews und Interpretationen von Fachpersonen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen. Zwischenauswertungen der Fotografischen Langzeitbeobachtung Schlieren wurden u. a. in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung und im Tages-Anzeiger gezeigt sowie in Ausstellungen im Fotomuseum Winterthur und im Museo ICO in Madrid präsentiert. Ausgezeichnet mit dem DAM Architectural Book Award als eines der zehn besten Architekturbücher 2023.

Bürogebäude gehören zu den anspruchsvollsten und vielfältigsten Aufgaben der zeitgenössischen Architektur. Das richtige Arbeitsumfeld hat Einfluss auf Effizienz, Gesundheit und sogar Kreativität der Mitarbeiter. Die Gestaltungsaufgabe ist somit, Situationen zu schaffen, in denen sich das wertvollste Betriebsvermögen: die Mitarbeiter entfalten kann. In diesem Buch werden 60 Bürobauten und -interieurs vorgestellt. Sie ermöglichen einen Überblick über die zeitgenössische Gestaltung von Arbeitsplätzen.Neben neuen Großbauten werden auch kleine Büros und Umgestaltungen gezeigt, die gleichermaßen beispielgebend sind. Thema sind ökologisch innovative Bauweisen; ebenso die Anordnung und Atmosphäre durch Innengestaltung. Die über 300 Seiten präsentieren sowohl klassische Büros, als auch neue Ideen für die offene Bürolandschaft, der noch jungen New-Work-Arbeitswelten wie die Businesslounge und dem non-territorialer Arbeitsplatz.

In this unique new book, The Heart of Drawing, 59 artists from 22 countries exhibit their art and talk about their process of creation to inspire readers and help them find inspiration for their own creative efforts. The book is about what happens during the creation of a drawing, NOT just about the final result. Drawing is described as an act of cognition that can help you develop eye-brain-hand coordination, conceptualize and analyze ideas, think creatively, and express yourself and communicate with others. It's about Drawing to Learn, which is the main focus of the book. The words and images you see express a journey, and the artists are exploring their internal and external realities with shape, line and value. The book promotes gestural or expressive drawing, not necessarily a perfect finished work. Because of this, many of the drawings show restated lines, drawn over erasures and other tentative marks and "draw overs" showing the process of creation. They are not all flawless finished pieces. Though from many countries and with various backgrounds, most of the artists say they began drawing at an early age. And most had someone in their lives encouraging them to create. What most have in common is their gestural and exploratory approach to drawing. Some describe entering a meditative state while drawing when nothing matters except putting marks on a surface. Such drawing is sometimes a felt bodily experience more than an intellectual one. For example, one artist notes "I keep a journal of my thoughts, a kind of reservoir for fleeting feelings and impressions where, like a primordial soup, ideas congeal and give birth to strange creatures that crawl onto the shore, discover wings, and take flight." What's best about The Heart of Drawing is the drawings themselves. How these artists create is as diverse as humanity itself and the whole collection will give aspiring artists ideas for their own creative efforts.

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales<BR><BR>Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history.<BR><BR>Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time.<BR><BR>As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.

New York City came to a standstill in March of 2020 as COVID washed over the population. Travel the streets of Washington Heights with painter and award-winning visual journalist, Tonia Cowan, who recorded the empty streets and small moments of a city driven indoors.

If Trees Could Talk is a hybrid historical fiction/memoir that uncovers family secrets through the clues of Margot's father's reportorial paintings and her mother's travel journalism. <BR>"This is all they left to follow the breadcrumbs of their life story...As I discover my Northern Irish Catholic roots, I realize my adventurous life has been a quest to understand my past."-the Author<BR>About the Margot McMahon CollectionA series of books by Chicago artist Margot McMahon about her life and devotion to art, ecology and social justice.

The Art of Being Alive is a brilliantly illustrated photo essay enriched with powerful insights and guidance on living life with more vibrancy and purpose. There's a Universal Place within us that contains profound Enlightenment and Wisdom, and there's an art to tapping into it. Using photos to enhance the experience, Suzette will take you on an inspiring 7 step journey inward to find this Infinite, Universal Place. The Art of Being Alive is for anyone searching for a more fulfilling life, as it takes you deep within to the Stillness and Wisdom of your Source and then back out into the world with Confidence, Vibrancy, and Knowing.

"Perduti luoghi ritrovati" raccoglie le foto che Roberta Giuffrida ha fatto a Poggioreale, borgo del trapanese abbandonato dopo il terremoto del Belìce. Con le fotografie di questo libro Roberta Giuffrida ha vinto il primo premio del concorso "Un luogo per ZeroBook" nel 2019, presieduto da Armando Rotoletti. Il concorso annuale promuove la fotografia di luoghi e aspetti del paesaggio umano abbandonati e su cui si punta l'obiettivo per una maggiore attenzione e cura, e per un recupero nella memoria collettiva. "Cosa state vedendo? Davanti a voi sono i reperti drammatici di un terremoto (1968) che ha sradicato uomini, animali, case; un destino di morte che la nostra fotografa interpella sprigionando con la sua visione nuove ragioni di vita. Ma davanti a noi sono, anche, costruzioni distrutte da eventi naturali senz'altro catastrofici che sono divenuti segni del ricordo, capaci di narrarci di un tempo passato sul quale non vogliamo che scendi l'oblio" (dalla Presentazione di Pippo Pappalardo).***"Lost places, found again" collects the photos that Roberta Giuffrida shot in Poggioreale, an ancient village in Trapani abandoned after the Belìce earthquake. Roberta Giuffrida won the Photo Contest "Un luogo per ZeroBook" in 2019, chaired by Armando Rotoletti. That Photo Contest promotes lost human places that need more attention and care, and a recovery in collective memory."What do you see? Look at the tragic ruins of the earthquake (1968) which uprooted men, animals, houses. Through her vision the photographer challenges this destiny of death releasing new reasons for life. These buildings, destroyed by catastrophic natural events, have also become symbols of remembrance - preventing this past event from oblivion" (From Introduction by Pippo Pappalardo)

How do you actually build a people's theater? As simple as necessary, so as not to cause any fear about entering in the audience, and as chic as possible, because theater is not only about staging on stage. This is the answer of the architectural firm Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir, Oei (Stuttgart) and the construction company Reisch (Bad Saulgau). Their Munich Volkstheater presents itself as a powerfully poetic brick building that is in dialogue with the old buildings of the former Munich cattle yard and gives the neighborhood an important cultural impulse. LRO Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir, Oei Architekten was founded in 1979 and currently employs around 50 people. Arno Lederer, born 1947, Prof., studied architecture in Stuttgart from 1970 to 1976. Worked in the architectural offices of Ernst Gisel and Berger Hauser Oed. 1979 independent architect, office partners: 1985 Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, 1990 Marc Oei. Professor of Construction and Design at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, of Building Construction and Design at the University of Karlsruhe and Head of Institute for Public Building and Design at the University of Stuttgart.

From the award-winning author of Clifford's Spiral and Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner. This special scholar's courseware edition of The Bonfire of the Vanderbilts includes the full text of the novel, along with the author's research whitepaper "Deconstructing the Scandalous Narrative of The Baptism," which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Journal of Art Crime. Also included in the endmatter are rare photographs from the private collection of the painter's family and links to related audiovisual supplementary materials, including the recording of the author's presentation on the The Baptism to the American Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the novel, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband is trying to make her think she's crazy, or she really is in the early stages of dementia."I must say, I am impressed with your sleuthing, your imagination and your ability to weave a story. Your theory is fascinating, and I personally would be quite excited if any piece of it proved true." - Carson Joyner Clark, biographer of painter Julius Stewart"Alva Vanderbilt Belmont would be very grateful to you for researching a Vanderbilt family painting - as will all the family. And as I do. Historians keep us alive!" - Margaret Hayden Rector, Vanderbilt biographer, author of Alva,That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman"Of the many inquiries we get, this has been the most interesting in a long time." - The Very Rev. Harry E. Krauss (retired)"I think you've done an extraordinary job of researching and speculating on the painting. You've certainly convinced me that this was a Vanderbilt affair!" - Mary Sudman Donovan, Historian, Episcopal Church USA, Author of A Different Call: Women's Ministries in the Episcopal Church, 1850-1920

A photographic essay on how COVID-19 and lockdowns have affected Newcastle upon Tyne.