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Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture)

13 reviews
Elizabeth A T Smith

Taschen, 2006

please--give me a break
Ok, Ok, there's a beautiful, gigantic, definitive book on the Case Study Houses at $136. Then there's this small, slick little book, presenting each and every case study house, in order, editorially excellent through and through. An outstanding summary of an under-documented era of modern architecture, one with a crucially democratic agenda. $9.99. The book itself represents the case study ...

Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing: Meditations On Black Aesthetics
Jeff Donaldson, Nathaniel McLin, ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003

In Kerry James Marshall's Rythm Mastr comic strip, an urban superhero battles the forces of evil using a combination of futuristic and traditional African accoutrements. This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best-known work, monumental paintings of African-American subjects based on the traditional genre of narrative history painting. In One True Thing, the catalogue accompaniment to Marshall's first solo show in five ...

Techno Architecture (4x4 series)

1 review
Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Thames & Hudson, 2000

Rationalism and Whimsy: The 4x4 Series
The first four volumes in the new 4x4 series, each of which features four works by four comparable architects. The concept of linkage is interesting, the four critics achieve an admirable synthesis, the price is right, and the books are full of useful information, plans and excellent photographs. Sadly, their accessibility has been compromised by a wildly self-indulgent designer who squandered ...

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book)

2 reviews
K. Michael Hays, Dana A. Miller

Yale University Press, 2008

Inspirational!
This book is the perfect companion to an inspirational exhibit. For those who saw it this is a perfect way to revisit the exhibit. For those who can't attend this is a great introduction to Bucky Fuller and his universal view.

Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s

2 reviews
Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Colette Dartnall, ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2001

Sad it's so hard to find much about Matta in print or Web
It's incredible that it's so hard to find much useful (or visual) information about this great, great Chilean artists, both in print or even on the Web. Born in 1912, and originaly, an architect and former disciple of Le Corbusier, Matta went on to be recognized as a true genius of the Surrealist movement. His works can be seen in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington ...

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

4 reviews

Yale University Press, 2008

Bontecou leads the way.
Lee Bontecou is a force. Her sculptural prowess is nearly unmatched. this work has some of the best critical essays I have ever read, and the bountiful photographs are most excellent.

Uta Barth: MOCA Catalogue
Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Uta Barth

St. Ann's Press, 2002

Since 1994, Uta Barth has been creating series of photographs which consist of blurred images generated by focusing the camera on an unoccupied foreground. These unframed, empty, but lushly seductive images present only background information, implying the absence of subjects, and referring to the function of images as containers of information and the role of the viewer in reading that information. This book is a faithful reproduction of the ...

Jenny Holzer

2 reviews
Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Jenny Holzer

Hatje Cantz, 2008

Fantastic coverage of a fantastic artist.
The book listed on this page, a monograph on Jenny Holzer by Phaidon Press, is fabulous. It contains information on Holzer's wide and influential art career, from her Truisms posters of the 'seventies to her electronic LED signs, carved stone benches, and virtual art pieces of the 'nineties. This book is also unique, within the Holzer bibliography, because of the "Artist's Choice" section where ...

KEVIN APPEL: DESCRIPCION SIN LUGAR
KEVIN). Ostrander, Tobias & Elizabeth A.T. Smith (APPEL

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, 2004

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective

8 reviews
Amanda Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2000

At last a superb compilation of a great artist's works.
I can't believe it's taken this long for a compilation of Cindy Sherman's body of work to appear. But maybe that's the real measure of a major artist in this place at this time. Sherman is one of the strongest,most meticulous and most original artists to appear since the early 1930s. I'm not going to analyze the photographs, they've been analyzed to death and are far beyond analysis in any case. ...

Opal: The Phenomenal Gemstone
Si & Ann Frazier; Janet & Paul Clifford; Jürgen Schütz; Andrew Cody; Wilson Cooper; Bob Farrar; Catherine Gaber; Barry Neville; Jack Townsend; Max Weibel; Michael O'Donoghue; Klaus Eberhard Wild; Elizabeth T. Smith; Alex Ritchie; Günther Neumeier & others

Lithographie, LLC, 2007

Precious opal is a rainbow made tangible. Its spectral blaze of color moves, changes, intensifies, fades, or disappears with the slightest change in perspective. Opal's intriguing play of color and unique atomic arrangement have made it the subject of scientific probing from early optics in the 1850s to high tech photonics today. Equally challenging has been discovering opal's place in history. Its beauty begs to be enshrined in myth and ...

Chicago (American Cities)
Catherine/ Smith, Elizabeth A. T. (CON)/ Alsdorf, James W. (CON) Opie

Distributed Art Pub Inc, 2006

LEE BONTECOU: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS OF THE SIXTIES
LEE). Smith, Elizabeth A.T. (BONTECOU

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1993

Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm
Elizabeth A. T. Smith

The MIT Press, 1994

Distributed for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. With essays by Mike Davis, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Richard Sennett, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Gwendolyn Wright.

Case Study Houses
Elizabeth A T Smith

Taschen, 2006

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler

2 reviews
Michael Darling, Elizabeth A.T. Smith

Harry N. Abrams, 2001

This is the one to have.
This book is a wonderful retrospective of Schindler's work. Though its easy to slip into hyperbole, this book is a must for the student of one of the last centuries most interesting architects. Schindler's work was overlooked in his day, some say due to not being chosen by Philip Johnson to be included in a very high-profile architectural show. Johnson himself has admitted his error! The book has ...

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