Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Art for Architecture. Georgia
Whilst Soviet modernist buildings in Georgia have enjoyed worldwide recognition for several decades, the art for architecture from that era - monumental decorative mosaics - still await discovery and appreciation from an international audience. Then, as now, these richly coloured mosaics were an independent, yet inextricable part of Georgia's architecture: they underlined a building's use, structured its façade, or merged into an elaborate whole. Today, however, many of these works, which were far more than just state propaganda, are under threat of destruction. For the first time, this volume documents these unique remnants of Soviet history alongside their precise locations. Using vivid photos and detailed texts, Nini Palavandishvili and Lena Prents guide the reader through a diverse selection of mosaics that distinguish themselves from those of the other Soviet Republics. By drawing attention to this artistic legacy of a bygone era, and in the process revealing its beauty and cultural significance, the authors highlight the importance of protecting and preserving it for the future.
Tbilisi
An alternative artistic guidebook to the Georgian capital Composed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, this book unveils multifaceted perspectives on a city trying to negotiate its complex heritage, its contentious present and potential for the future. It also serves as an alternative guidebook.
Spaces. Cultural Public Sphere in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
In the frame of 'Spaces', the team of curators invited artists to develop interactive projects in Chisinau, Kyiv, Tbilisi and Yerevan, with the aim to enhance civil society processes, reconsidering public space as a place for free expression, social encounter, shared responsibilities. The 'Spaces' interventions dealt with past, present and imagined futures of spaces and cities, succeeded to change the rhythm of the city, made private acts public, irritated - all against the background of the burning question: How far can the citizen get actively involved into current political discourses?0The 'Spaces' conference in Vienna presents and discusses experiences from Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kyiv, Chisinau, and connects them to other parts of Europe and the world. Speakers from the four countries share their experiences and reflections with the audience. The discussion proceeds to looking at the social transformation processes in Europe in general and the positioning of artists in current processes of protest, activism and change.
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing
The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which have been incorporated into the text. It covers the principal accounts of Eurocentrism, center and margins, circulations and atlases of art, decolonial theory, incommensurate cultures, the origins and dissemination of the "October" model, problems of access to resources, models of multiple modernisms, and the emergence of English as the de facto lingua franca of art writing.
In the Sphere of The Soviets
The book distinctive is listed in points (i) it focuses on Eastern European art covering the historical avant-garde to the post-war and contemporary periods of; (ii) it looks at some key artists in the countries that have not been given so much attention within this content i.e. Georgia, Dagestan, Chechnya and Central Asia; (iii) it looks beyond Eastern Europe to the influence of Russia/Soviet Union in Asia. It explores the theoretical models developed for understanding contemporary art across Eastern Europe and focus on the new generation of Georgian artists who emerged in the immediate years before and after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union; and on to discuss the legacy and debates around monuments across Poland, Russia and Ukraine.helps in Better understanding the postwar and contemporary art in Eastern Europe.
Ministry of Highways
Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Its informal, vernacular, and palimpsestic architecture—reflected in the stunning former Ministry of Highways erected in 1975—reveals the uncanny anticipatory and progressive potential of a place where the past is neither monumentalized nor destroyed, but built upon. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the s...
Landscapes of Communism
'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will Self During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high-rise and vast housing estates an emphatic declaration of a non-capitalist idea. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post-Revo...
Apolonija Šušteršic
Not quite artist, not quite architect, Apolonija uteric? calls herself
Demokrasi di Era Digital
“Makin dalam dan pentingnya teknologi digital satu dekade terakhir dan bagaimana teknologi itu telah membantu pemerintah menjalankan roda pemerintahan selama pandemi Corona yang dimulai sejak awal 2020 membuat saya tertarik untuk menyunting sebuah buku berikutnya tentang demokrasi pada era digital dan masa pandemi. Teknologi digital telah membantu hampir semua pemerintahan di dunia untuk terus menjalankan pemerintahan tanpa perlu bertatap muka. Manusia sanggup terus menjalankan tugas-tugas mereka dengan bekerja dari rumah menggunakan teknologi digital. Namun pada era pandemi banyak kebijakan di Barat yang secara prinsip bertentangan dengan asas demokrasi, paling sedikit untuk waktu yang pe...
polar 22: Zukunft der Öffentlichkeit
polar befasst sich im neuen Heft mit der Zukunft der Räume, die wir als "öffentlich" bezeichnen: mit den Orten, an denen unterschiedliche soziale Gruppen und Weltanschauungen aufeinandertreffen. In den Blick kommt dabei der digitale Raum des Netzes, in dem die Filter Bubble der Algorithmen unsere Aufmerksamkeit lenkt. Zugleich ist in dessen Anonymität ein Raum für Propaganda wie für blanken Hass entstanden - es findet eine extreme Polarisierung der politischen Diskurse statt. Hinzu kommt eine massive Gefährdung analoger Räume, die bislang der sozialen Begegnung dienten. Vor diesem Hintergrund fragt "polar" auch nach dem Zustand einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit in ihrer Verzahnung mit den nationalen Politiken und ihren je speziellen Interessen und Perspektiven.
