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Albert Frey House 1 + 2 slipcase
Jennifer Golub
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Albert Frey worked in Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris, but he is most closely associated with the 1940s and 1950s desert architecture of Southern California, and with the work of architects such as Richard Neutra and John Lautner.
This exquisitely designed monograph on Albert Frey focuses on two houses he built for himself in Palm Springs, California, one in 1941 (with an addition in 1953) and the other in 1964. Although both houses have a modern aesthetic, including glass walls and concrete construction, they are fully incorporated into their surroundings, in keeping with Frey's principles of paralleling nature in his work. This title, which was developed in collaboration with Frey himself, includes color and duotone photographs commissioned especially for this book. The book is exquisitely made and comes in a plastic slipcase.
Please note that this is a limited edition of only 2500 copies.
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In Defense.......2006-02-19
I had to review this book in response to the previous review, giving it one star is unbelievable (But I guess we're all entitled to our opinion)! The book is essentially a visual hommage to these two houses (1 + 2) that Frey built in the California desert. It is simple in concept and execution, and is but a small and beautiful introduction to Frey's work. It is an aesthetic object in itself, a bijoux, a little gem. The book has wonderful photographs and design, especially the desert colors used throughout that reflect the simplicity of the desert landscape and Frey's architecture.
If you're looking for any indepth knowledge of Frey and his work, try Joseph Rosa's book instead. If you're looking for a beautiful little book (for a good price!), and an interesting interview, try this book. It won't necessarily extensively nourish the mind, but will, and did for me, provide some visual inspiration and desire to learn more about the man and the work.
From the book: "This book is primarily visual, emphasizing the materiality of Albert Frey's original studies. It begins with some pieces of his archive in their original colors and photographic formats, the media in which he designed and thought. With the new images that follow, it seeks to activate the experience, the textures, and the aesthetic of his Palm Springs homes."
Save your money.......2002-12-21
The captionless pictures are an amateurish mish-mash--a wall here, a cupboard there, a flower pot, etc.--that intends to explain the houses by showing their components. There might be one or two actual pictures of the complete houses, but they're not especially flattering. Makes you appreciate professional photographers. No technical info either. There is an interview at the end, however, if you're willing to buy the book for that.
Frey shows well in Europe.......2000-07-09
In London I stumbled on this beautiful book at the Tate museum. Interestingly Palm springs modernism seems to be a highly sought after style here and this book embodies the best of that look. I never knew Frey did the detailing of the Villa Savoye and helped execute the built in furniture. It is great to see that Europe architecture migrated and that within Europe today, the look that Frey designed for his own homes is very much appreciated and admired and inspires. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this book is invaluable.
Desert Dreams.......1999-12-21
Albert Frey's work is among the best fifties modernism has to offer. Unfortunately there is not as much literature about him as for instance on Neutra. 'Albert Frey Houses 1+2' tries to fill in the gap and focuses on the two desert houses Frey has built and extended over the years. The designs and changes are documented by colour photographs, instead of drawings. This approach unveils the tactility and vivid colours of Frey's work, but neglects the spatial qualities of his plans. Because most people have been introduced to his architecture by black and white pictures, this book now shows that the designs are much more complex and lively than expected. Pictures of personal items and private photographs are printed among the architecture and reveal Frey's sources of inspiration. The last few pages are dedicated to an interview, and are very inspiring. Frey turns out to be a very clever and sensitive person, who in many ways has been way ahead of his time. Drawback of this 'picture'-book is that it only serves as an introduction to Albert Frey's work. Because the focus of the book is on only two of his houses, and its approach is mainly visual, it leaves the reader behind with an urge to find out more about this gentle architect and his buildings.
palm springs' superstar speaks.......1998-11-20
visually, palm springs is back as one of our culture's most interesting spots. the mix of sand, glass, and metal that is modernism's desert design signature is in perfect shape here. albert frey, who perhaps more than anyone helped to shape that look, gets to showcase the two homes he built and lived in here. (one no longer exists, the other overlooks palm springs central from high atop palisades drive.)
the photos are from his personal archive, which author/collaborator jennifer golub (a producer at ad agency chiat day) was able to get him to open. the words are frey's too. since he's 95, we're lucky he talks to us now before its too late.
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This first comprehensive publication on the influential contemporary artist focuses on the experimental nature of Andrea Zittel's signature objects, inhabitable sculptures, and other projects.
In her work as an artist, Zittel investigates domestic and urban life in Western societies. Exploring the various aspects of living, the artist designs her own household settings to serve as a test case for her experimental living structures. Her work has provoked debates about the changed meaning of domestic and collective space and the possibilities for new adaptations to urban conditions today. Richly illustrated, Andrea Zittel: Critical Space includes nearly two hundred reproductions of Zittel's works of art, many of which are published here for the first time. The book includes over one hundred sculptures and drawings, documentation of early work, and recent site-specific work in the Mojave Desert of California. With essays that touch upon urbanism, architecture, design and consumer culture, this catalog offers an extensive analysis of Zittel's contribution to contemporary trends in art and architecture.
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Great retrospective on youngish artist.......2006-10-29
This is a high quality print art book, is well edited, with the artist's career and thoughts organized into chapters, somewhat chronologically. Zittel is only in her late 30s and is super prolific so this book is really like an early mid life summary and not a true retrospective.
Zittel's lists of ideas are handy. When I am feeling down about the messiness, the lack of space, urban decay, and my relative poverty, I just need to look at one of her lists to get cheered up (e.g., matte surfaces hide dirt, how much space does one need, anyway?) She has such a sense of humor about stuff that most people get too serious about (today, everyone wants more space, more clothes, more variety.... Zittel makes you laugh and question, why? And to recognize that too much choice, too much stuff becomes oppressive).
I predict that Zittel will be as recognized one day as a Knoll, a Perriand, a Schindler-type epoch-maker, a messiah, a visionary for modernist design. Under the terms of our mass consumer culture, she cannot become really popular, but she has the right critical outsider attitude, and with such a happy, cheerful twist. I wish Target or some mass market producer would adopt some of her ideas and sell them to the masses (the bowl-in-the-table, the carpets made to look like furniture, the "uniform" outfit, the A-Z living unit, etc.).
Zittel has the vision to improve the average person's life through simple changes, and even allow people to spend less money for fewer, but better designed, "re-thought" products.
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Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history, including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Petah Coyne, Leon Golub, David Levinthal, Mary Lucier, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events, excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists' thinking about their working processes, conceptual issues, the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire. Founded in 1975, ICI's mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through traveling exhibitions and other activities that reach a diverse national and international audience. Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators over the years, ICI has created some 100 exhibitions that collectively have included the work of more than 2,500 artists, presented at over 450 art spaces located throughout the United States, and 20 other countries.
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American Art: From The Goetz Collection, Munich
Ursula Frohne ,
Noemi Smolik ,
Carroll Dunham ,
Robert Gober ,
Jenny Holzer ,
Mike Kelley ,
Jonathan Lasker ,
Louise Lawler ,
Raymond Pettibon ,
Paul Pfeiffer ,
Richard Prince ,
Jessica Stockholder ,
Andrea Zittel ,
Peter Halley , and
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Manufacturer: Ingvild Goetz
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Release Date: 2002-03-02 |
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Housed in a modern building designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, the private Goetz collection contains one of the largest repositories of American art from the 1980s and 90s, with work by Matthew Barney, Carroll Dunham, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Jonathan Lasker, Louise Lawler, Cady Noland, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Richard Prince, Jessica Stockholder, and Andrea Zittel.
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Andrea Zittel
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Andrea Zittel: Critical Space
ASIN: 3980806324
Release Date: 2003-07-02 |
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As a young artist living in New York, Andrea Zittel started to design furniture that satisfied her needs and desires and saved space. In search for organization systems in all areas of life, she acts as a researcher, test person, inventor and fabricator efficiently rolled up into one, producing objects, dwelling units and clothing. Zittel founded A-Z Administrative Services in 1992 as a laboratory, shop, conceptual organization, apartment and office founded on the idea that a person's possessions and living conditions can influence their views and behavior, and since then has created Personal Panels, Cover, Dining Room Carpet, Perfected Pillow, Carpet Bed, Chamber Pot, Dishless Dining Table and many other works that accommodate her psychological and social needs. This publication looks at her production over the last decade and includes the A-Z Cellular Compartment Units Customized by Sammlung Goetz, a 6-compartment living unit designed specifically for the needs of the Goetz Collection.
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Andrea Zittel: Personal Programs
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Andrea Zittel
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Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World
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ASIN: 1880353180
Release Date: 2001-04-02 |
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This unique new book accompanies an exhibition of work by eight of today's most engaging international artists--Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Andrea Zittel. Through a variety of media and styles ranging from painting, photography and video to installation, furniture design and architecture, this crop of young artists from around the world offers a range of possibilities for making sense of the often-impersonal, increasingly fragmented terrain of the postmodern world. The artists documented here all concern themselves with the difficult project of cognitive mapping--the individual and social attempt to face up to an increasingly complex and seemingly unknowable reality. In addition to a critical essay by architecture historian Michael Sorkin--addressing the ever-changing physicality of the contemporary world and its impact on the human psyche-- Comfort also features responses by each artist to the question of what the concept of comfort means to them.
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Diary No. 1
Simona Vendrame , and
Andrea Zittel
Manufacturer: Alberico Cetti Serbelloni
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The artist, whose work explores concepts of habitat, interweaves tales of her artistic practice with conversation, using the model of a personal diary. 144 pages. Color plates.
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great study of the first half of this young artist's life.......2006-04-13
This artist is about 40 years old and going very strong, and this book is a nice overview of her beginnings to early midlife.
Zittel is a testament to how artists are born to be artists. She says she was a mall rat in Southern California until she went to the Rhode Island School of Design. I think her high school teachers could not figure her out, and told her she should go to cosmetology school or something like that.
She just naturally has these ideas that she followed through to their fruition.
A true polymath: vehicle design, home design, food design, clothes design--she makes me question everything, well why can't we do it some other way. One example is her tables that have bowls carved into the surface. Another is a well designed outfit that one can wear every day for six months straight. Why have variety?
Designer or performance artist? Very difficult to categorize because her ideas are wide ranging.
High quality print reproductions.
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Just Love Me
Diana Ebster ,
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Matthew Barney ,
Mike Kelley ,
Sarah Lucas ,
Pipilotti Rist ,
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Manufacturer: Walther Konig
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Description: Just Love Me--with its title taken directly from a late 90s neon sign by Tracey Emin--reveals how complex and differentiated female identity constructions have become today. Classically assigned roles have broken down. Radical feminist positions of the 70s and 80s no longer make sense. But if much has changed since the late 60s, when feminist artists began to make their most prominent moves, many social and structural problems remain. The strategies and perspectives of women artists today--and, presumably, of women today--are here considered through a selection of works by an important group of contemporary (mostly) women artists: Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffat, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidan, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.
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Katie Holten: Paths of Desire
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ASIN: 0977752836
Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
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In her first museum exhibition in the United States, Irish artist Katie Holten joins the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, as an artist-in-residence to create her largest and most ambitious work to date. The exhibition presents a new site-specific indoor installation comprised of sculpture, drawings and paintings and an outdoor performance that collectively explore global ecology and social gestures within moments of environmental crisis. Interested in our fragile ecology from an international perspective--while also considering local concerns--Holten's work is a relative, aesthetic proposition for community-friendly solutions. She renders nature essential, and in the process asks individuals and communities to ponder their natural environment, and to consider human fragility in an uncertain future. Holten collaborates with communities around the globe to raise awareness of environmental issues through a visual consideration of nature. Her exhibitions heighten a sense of urgency and action through beautifully rendered work that expresses the fragile ecology of local environments.
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2598 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Andrea Zittel: have habitat, will travel.
Author: Jan Avgicos
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Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: Parachute Contemporary Art
Issue: 96
Page: 36-41
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Record & Play: I'm So Noisy (Happy Toddler) (Record & Play)
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I'm So Happy for You (Tiny Thoughts)
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ASIN: 1588600173
Release Date: 2000-12-29 |
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This collection of first-ever magnetic, miniature gift books offers greeting card and gift book in one. Sweet sentiment in poetic verse by Dee Appel covers topics from friendship to sympathy. Imaginatively illustrated by Michal Sparks, each tiny book lifts from its matching card and holds its place on the refrigerator or filing cabinet, as well as in the heart of the recipient.
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Desabitada (I'm so happy), homem morre (montagem wiseman)
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Kobo, the Li'L Rascal (Kodansha Bilingual Comics)
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