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Brilliant.... Anthony Vidler is a conceptual conjurer of formidable skill. -- J. Mordaunt Crook, New York Times Book Review The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally unhomely modern condition. The essays are at once historical and theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart. AUTHOR: Anthony Vidler
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Artist's Photo Reference by Bart Rulon
Description not available.Complemented by hundreds of dynamic animal photographs, this photographic reference is divided into six sections according to various types of animals--including hoofed mamals, carnivorous mammals, small mammals, aquatic wildlife, African wildlife, and Indian wildlife--all featured in their natural habitats and photographed from different angles, as well as step-by-step demonstrations and handy tips. Original. AUTHOR: Bart Rulon
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Pablo Picasso by Kate Scarborough
Description not available.Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Pablo Picasso. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events. AUTHOR: Kate Scarborough
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Complete Plays of Sophocles by Moses Hadas, Sophocles
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides not only in the number of plays he wrote but also in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven works in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, saw life steadily and saw it whole. This, the only one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles' complete works, is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which Professor Hadas has called the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English. AUTHOR: Moses Hadas, Sophocles
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance by Paul Robert Walker, Robert Whitfield
Description not available.Follows the fifteenth-century creation story of Florence's great Santa Maria del Fiore's dome, noting its design by innovative architect Filippo Brunelleschi, who was forced to share its commission with archrival and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. AUTHOR: Paul Robert Walker, Robert Whitfield
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Constellations of Miro, Breton by Paul Hammond
An exploration of the way Andre Breton's poems and Joan Miro's gouaches relate to each other and to the greater world. AUTHOR: Paul Hammond
PUBLISHER: City Lights Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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