Actes Sud - Böcker

Gorgeous paper constructions expand on Herms scarf designs in this luxury pop-up book. Every year, the iconic luxury brand Herms chooses a new theme to celebrate its creative direction for the upcoming year. This practice began in 1987, marking th...

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In the USA, the dozens of Monsanto sites have been classified as sensitive zones by the Federal Environmental Agency due to the sites activities, which have already had grave consequences for human health and for the environment. For the sake of m...

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No stranger to the art of staging and to the act of disclosure, Sophie Caile returns again here to the theme of autobiography and to the notion of the other, revealing in all their difference and singularity those who have been blind since birth o...

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In 2007, architect and academic Jana Revedin created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, in partnership with the Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris and a network of architecture centres and international universities (cIVA...

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Simn Vlez was born in Manizales, Colombia, in 1949, and began his career forty years ago. Vlez is renowned for his joinery systems that brilliantly utilize bamboo as a permanent structural element in both residential and commercial structures. For...

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Jacques Henri Lartigue was fascinated by the ascent of sport in the early twentieth century as a fashionable pastime for the middle classes, and was himself a keen sportsman. Lartigue's entirely unposed photographs, presented album-style in this g...

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This book, published to accompany the recent Works of Fire exhibition at the Cret Museum of Modern Art, presents Miquel Barcels ceramics work. Created in Majorca in a former tilery and brickyard transformed into a workshop, the terracotta figures ...

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This is the first monograph to document the clear, striking work of Swiss photographer Delphine Burtin (born 1974). Burtin's mostly black-and-white, sculptural images feature geometric forms and found objects, including her own prints that she has...

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This book explores the artistic nature of tattooing and celebrates its living, creative, changing essence. Alongside the omniscience of tattoing throughout the world for thousands of years, presented through rare artifacts, the book pays tribute t...

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Saint Laurent was a key artist of the 20th century. Today to many his name evokes the reefer jacket, the trench-coat, the Mondrian dress, the smoking jacket and feminine trouser suits. He is remembered as the man who gave the safari jacket a new l...

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A stones throw from Aix-en-Provence is the Chteau la Coste, a unique alliance of wine, architecture and art, dedicated to producing organic wines. At its heart are the Vat room designed by Jean Nouvel and an art centre designed by the great Japane...

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During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner, the first American woman to graduate with a degree i...

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An unusual artist's book by French museum director Bruno Gaudichon, Wanderland recaptures the high-spirited dream logic of the exhibition it accompanies; both are centered around the theme of flânerie, the art of urban wandering. Created through c...

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Chronopoétique is the first retrospective on French multimedia artist Olivier Leroi (born 1962). Retracing his 30-year career, the volume includes his drawings, cut-outs, sculptures and large-scale installations along with illuminating essays by c...

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At the invitation of the town of Cannes, renowned German artist Nils-Udo, pioneer of Land Art, will create several ephemeral installations this summer on Ile Sainte- Marguerite, the largest of the Lrins Islands, an exceptionally preserved natural ...

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