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Illuminations eBook Series

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  • Spectacular Modernity

    Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958

    by Lisa Blackmore ...
    Series Book 76 - Illuminations
    In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Selected Essays of John Berger

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • After Art

    by David Joselit ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    by Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Art-Architecture Complex

    by Hal Foster ...
    Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.More than any art, today’s global style conveys both the dreams and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror

    U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia

    by Oliver Villar, Drew Cottle ...
    Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollarsin aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug tradeand State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result hasbeen a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilizeColombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the officialreasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Writing Design

    Words and Objects

    Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei ...
    How do we learn about the objects that surround us? As well as gathering sensory information by viewing and using objects, we also learn about objects through the written and spoken word - from shop labels to friends' recommendations and from magazines to patents. But, even as design commentators have become increasingly preoccupied with issues of mediation, the intersection of design and language ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Foucault for Architects

    by Gordana Fontana-Giusti ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a renewed ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • From Light to Dark

    Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    by Tim Edensor ...
    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

    Repression during World Upheaval

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Surrealism and Architecture

    Edited by Thomas Mical ...
    This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design.This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture

    Edited by Meredith Tromble, Charissa Terranova ...
    The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It ... Read more

    $70.99 USD