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Product Description: Why do so few women feature in the history of design? Why is it still the case that so few women speak at conferences? How have previously celebrated female designers come to be âforgottenâ? Are women judged today solely on the basis of their quality of work? In recent decades, female graphic designers have been working actively and successfully, but the longstanding identification of creative genius with masculinity has--with a few exceptions--prevented women from receiving recognition in the official annals of design history; even today, only a tiny percentage of active female designers enjoy public acclaim...read more
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9783868591538 | Bilingual edition (Jovis, December 31, 2012), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Why do so few women feature in the history of design?
Product Description: The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects--butter, a sewing machine, or shoes--are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further contextualization, the objects acquire a sensual presence and magical aura...read more
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9783037782583, titled "Magie Der Dinge / The Magic of Things: The Magic of Things" | Bilingual edition (Lars Muller Publishers, October 25, 2012), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects--butter, a sewing machine, or shoes--are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy.
Product Description: Contemporary artist Andrea Zittel's A-Z Enterprise is an investigation into all aspects of daily life--including shelter, furniture and clothing, which she designs. Architect Marcel Breuer said of his 1966 Modern design for New York's Whitney Museum, "It should transform the vitality of the street into the sincerity and profundity of art...read more
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9783775722971 | Hatje Cantz Pub, May 1, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Contemporary artist Andrea Zittel's A-Z Enterprise is an investigation into all aspects of daily life--including shelter, furniture and clothing, which she designs.
Product Description: This book records and assembles illustrations of three large-format portfolios by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife Margaret Macdonald, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott and the Viennese Leopold Bauer, issued in 1902 after and editorial competition on the subject An Art-Lover's House.
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9783930698882 | Axel Menges, June 1, 2002, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: This book records and assembles illustrations of three large-format portfolios by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife Margaret Macdonald, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott and the Viennese Leopold Bauer, issued in 1902 after and editorial competition on the subject An Art-Lover's House.
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9783764363871, titled "Ãsthetik Der Schönen Genügsamkeit Oder Arts and Crafts Als Lebensform: Programmatische Texte" | Birkhauser Architecture, May 3, 2000, cover price $42.00
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