Campbell, James W.P.; Pryce, Will

Library: A World History

Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black paper boards in illustrated jacket. 320 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white facade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, the architecture of a library is a symbol of its time as well as of its builders' wealth, culture, and learning. VG. Minimally marked ex-lib, only sticker on spine under mylar wrap and inside rear board. Otherwise would be close to new.

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Book number: 205389

Catalogue: World Architecture

Keywords: World Architecture ; Libraries ; ;

Frampton, Kenneth

Wright's Writings : Reflections on Culture and Politics, 1894-1959

New York, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2017. Softcover. Octavo. softcover. White wraps with red titles. 143 pages : illustrations(some color) ; 24 cm. "Wright's Writings traces the discursive work of Frank Lloyd Wright through a set of essays by Kenneth Frampton. Originally written as a series of introductions to the five-volume collection of Wright's writing published in 1992, the essays are gathered here as a critical survey of the architect's written and spoken work--a body of text that testifies to Wright's staggering prolificacy, pleasure in argument, diversity of interests, and desire to engage with timely political debates. Alongside these five essays, Wright's Writings provides a visual record of Wright's literary output, demonstrating the range of media he employed in the act of making architecture. Read together, it presents a history of the architect through the essays, books, letters, lectures, and speeches he wrote as well as the material and social cultures he navigated" -- From the publisher. New. In shrinkwrap.

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Book number: 204951

Catalogue: World Architecture

Keywords: World Architecture ; Wright, Frank Lloyd ; ; Architects and Firms - American

Weedom, Geoff (and) Richard Ward

Fairground Art: The Art Forms of Travelling Fairs, Carousels, and Carnival Midways

New York, Abbeville Press, 1981. Hardcover. A red leather casebound book with gilt text on the spine. There is a matte, color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow text on a red spine. 312 pages; illustrated with a majority color images. "The imaginative, often bizarre decorations that enliven fairgrounds, amusement parks and carnivals have a never-ending appeal to the popular imagination. Stunning carved and painted carousel horses, sinister mechanical targets, terrifying rides and alluring freak show banners are among the many wildly ornamented devices that use sex, horror and humour to entice fairground visitors to sample their wares. "Fairground Art" is the first book ever to thoroughly reveal the fascinating history of this unique art form. Featuring over 1,100 illustrations - more than 700 in extravagant colour - it has been described by the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" as a magical delight and by the "Financial Times" as a dazzling tour-de-force of riotous colour which must now be considered the definitive work. VG .

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Book number: 206304

Catalogue: World Architecture

Keywords: American Art ; Carnival Art ; ; General Decorative Arts - European