Vardagens hjältar. Naturalismen i bildkonsten, fotografiet och filmen 1875-1918
Ända sedan det vetenskapliga perspektivet utvecklades under renässansen har realistiska bilder fångade på målarduken utgjort stommen i den västerländska konsten. I slutet av 1800-talet vinnlade sig konstnärerna emellertid inte bara om att måla realistiskt, utan också om att skapa bilder som återspeglade verkligheten i en värld mitt inne i en snabb industrialiseringsprocess. Kärnan i denna naturalistiska konst utgörs av vanliga människors liv i en tid av omfattande social, ekonomisk och kulturell omställning.
Fattigdom och orättvisa är ofta förekommande motiv. Många konstnärer var bekymrade över att den traditionella bondekulturen höll på att försvinna och över den eländiga situationen bland städernas fabriksarbetare. Detta gav upphov till stor social och politisk oro i de flesta länder i Europa. Vardagens hjältar. Naturalismen i bildkonsten, fotografiet och filmen 1875–1918 utforskar förhållandet mellan olika konstformer som använde sig av en naturalistisk estetik: måleriet, filmen, teatern, fotografiet och litteraturen. Boken erbjuder en fräsch tolkning av hur de naturalistiska konstnärerna försökte förstå och förklara snabba och genomgripande förändringar i samtiden med hjälp av en estetik som var tänkt att fungera djupt inspirerande för konstnärer inom alla medier. Redaktören och författaren Gabriel P. Weisberg är professor i konsthistoria vid University of Minnesota i Minneapolis. Som vetenskapsman har han skrivit omfattande om konst från 1800-talet och det tidiga 1900-talet.
Boken är framtagen i samband med utställningarna som pågår från 8 oktober 2010 till 16 januari 2011 på Van Gogh-museet i Amsterdam och på Ateneums konstmuseum i Helsingfors från 18 februari till 15 maj 2011.
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Language: Swedish
Publisher: www.mercatorfonds.com
Authors: Gabriel P. Weisberg, David Jackson, Willa Silverman
No. of pages: 224
Format: 250x295 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2010
ISBN 978-90-61599-91-9
Static! Designing for energy awareness
From the boost of the first cup of coffee in the morning to the glow of a nightlight that keeps a child company in the dark, much of our contemporary lifestyle is powered by electricity. Today, however, the economic and environmental costs of energy require us to think again. While recognising the complex social functions and cultural forms of electricity in everyday life, the current challenge for design is to change practicies and patterns of (over) consumtion.
Static! explores design as a basic for increasing awareness of energy. Familiar furnishings and products have been reinterpreted to materialize electricity, to make it more visible and tangible for people. The resulting series of conceptual design examples express the poetics – and politics – of every-day electricity consumption. This book presents the Static! design examples and perspectives on issues in (sustain-able) design today. Grounded in passion and humor, as well as rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers – that is, all of us – to rethink the form, and future, of electricity in the world around us.
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Language: English
Author: Christina Öhman, Sara Backlund, Johan Redström, Ramia Mazé, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Sara Routarinne
Graphic design: Christian Altman
No. of pages: 124
Format: 170x240 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2010
ISBN 987-91-85689-34-7
THAM VIDEGÅRD ARKITEKTER
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter are leaders of a new generation of Swedish architects. As Hans Ibelings notes in one of the book’s essays, they are neither stuck in the functionalist past nor preoccupied with a conceptual image. By approaching each assignment in a direct and uncomplicated way, they create opportunities for architectural exploration. For ten years they have produced a singular and lucid architecture that owes as much to vernacular Nordic tradition as it does to the international scene.
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Language: English, Swedish
Authors: Tomas Lauri (editor), Kieran Long, Hans Ibeling
Graphic design: Nille Svensson
Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
No. of pages: 224
Format: 220x240 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2009
ISBN 987-91-85689-27-9
NORDIC ARCHITECT
This inspiring book showcases the work and words of 67 practitioners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Written by David Sokol, Nordic Architects includes a unique question-and-answer format that provides firsthand accounts of the dialogues shaping northern Europe's design community. Readers will engage with the region's enduring legacy of modernist architecture that is sensitive to both site and occupants, as well as the global currents that are roiling designers toward experimental work and provocative thinking.
The volume spans architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture within the Nordic countries and be-yond, and features a generous, clean layout punctuated by stunning photography. In doing so, Nordic Architects re-familiarizes readers with prominent names and introduces them to architects just emerging onto the scene.
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Language: English
Author: David Sokol
Graphic design: Sandra Praun
No. of pages: 448
Format: 210x260 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2009
ISBN 987-91-85213-33-7
LJUSET SKA VARA VITT OCH LYSA FRITT - Historien om Ateljé Lyktan
2009 firade Ateljé Lyktan 75 år och det firades med en riktig belysningsbibel! Med moderna klassiker som Bumlingen, Hinken och Tuben har företaget en särställning i svensk designhistoria. Författarna Staffan Bengtsson och Johan Jansson har grävt fram tidigare opublicerat material från Ateljé Lyktans rika arkiv. Bilder och texter samspelar i en vacker helhet som tål att ligga framme på soffbordet. Med sitt digra innehåll blir boken också en viktig källa till kunskap för samlare av skandinavisk design. marketplace..
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Language: Swedish
Authors: Johan Jansson, Staffan Bengtsson
Graphic design: Jesper Öberg
No. of pages: 264
Format: 225x275 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2009
ISBN 987-91-85689-25-5
FORMENS FRIGÖRELSE Konsthanverk och design under debatt i 1960-talets Sverige
Sextiotalet var en omvälvande period då värderingar ifrågasattes och tabun överskreds. Med köp-slit-slängdebatten omvärderades såväl synen på estetisk fostran som konsumentens egenvärde. Både konsthantverkaren och industridesignern kritiserades för att vara osolidariska med omvärlden. Med beteckningen den fria formen ringar Cilla Robach in en relativt okänd företeelse i 1960-talets svenska formhistoria. Det handlar om föremål som bröt mot estetiska normer, mot hantverkstraditioner och mot krav på tingens brukbarhet. Härigenom tvingade utövarna fram en diskussion om gränsen mellan konst och konsthantverk.
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Language:Swedish, English summary
Author: Cilla Robach
Graphic design: Matilda Plöjel
No. of pages: 392
Format: 164x240 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2010
ISBN 987-91-85689-32-3
NORWAY CALLING Nedslag i en ny norsk designsvärld Touch-down in a new world of Norwegian design
Norway Calling, the book of contemporary Norwegian design, is a kind of answer to the question of why Norwegian design is arousing such pleasure and curiosity today the world over.
It is the first book to mirror the exciting northern trend, introducing some of the principal figures and some of their most important projects – an excellent opportunity for design-lovers to acquaint themselves with the vigorous development of Norwegian design after such titans as Sverre Fehn, Grete Prytz Kittelsen and Arne Korsmo. After years of silence there proved to be a new, living world of Norwegian design. Now widley known designers and architects such as Snøhetta, Daniel Rybakken, Norway Says and Arne & Carlos bare witness to this forceful trend.
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Language: English, Swedish
Author: Staffan Bengtsson
Graphic design: Sandra Praun
No. of pages: 160
Format: 170x240 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 987-91-85689-14-9 (English)
ISBN 987-91-85689-17-0 (Swedish)
247 Swedish Craft Artists - a guide from south to north 247 svenska konsthantverkare - en gudie från söder till norr
Tradition and renewal.
Swedish craft is now to be found in new cultural contexts everywhere. The book surveys trends and styles of 247 of the leading craftsmen in Sweden today. A wide selection of craft and artistry from Skåne in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. The latest work by the craftsmen displays a wide-ranging creativity in their own words, with colourful photos, maps and with numerous different categories: glass, ceramics, textile, wood, concrete, metal, plastic, stone etc. 338 pages, 620 photos. This is both a guide book and a celebration of Swedish craft.
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Language: English, Swedish
Graphic design: Daniel Bjugård
No. of pages: 338
Format: 150x230 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 987-91-85689-08-8 (English)
ISBN 987-91-85689-23-1 (Swedish)
Swedish Architecture in Wood - The 2008 Timber Prize Arkitektur i Trä - Träpriset 2008
This selection shows the foremost achievements of Swedish wooden architecture in the past four years. They comprise a cowshed, a riding school, an apartment block, a single-family housing development, an exhibition gallery, a school, three detached houses and two weekend cottages. Buildings differing in size, type and use, but with the common denominator of all confirming to a high architectural standard with wood playing a decisive part. Architecture in Wood is profusely illustrated by photographer Åke E:son Lindman. The descriptions and drawings are by the architects themselves. A beautiful and finely crafted work of documentation, in equal measure informative and inspiring.
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Language: English, Swedish
Graphic design: Daniel Bjugård
No. of pages: 184
Format: 255x220 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 987-91-85689-16-3 (English)
ISBN 987-91-85689-15-6 (Swedish)
New Graphical Symbols for Many More
We all come into contact with symbols, for example when travelling, shopping or visiting libraries and hospitals. Properly designed, the symbols are readily understandable and make life easier for us. Because pictorial symbols – graphical symbols – are so widespread in public places, it is important, as a matter of democracy and human rights, that everyone should be able to understand them. Graphical Symbols for Many More is a national development and standardisation project aimed at making public symbols more uniform and more serviceable in keeping with the concept of Design for All. Graphical symbols must serve everyone’s purposes. The objective is a Swedish standard laying guidelines and policy for the design and use of graphical symbols. This book contains the competition entries, presented by category, Medical centre, Library, Travel centre, Source separation, Playground, Evacuation meeting point and Internet café. The winning entry, the nominated entries and the honourable mention are presented in their entirety.
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Language: English
Graphic design: Gabor Palotai Design
No. of pages: 160
Format: 200x200 mm
Binding: Soft cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 987-91-85689-19-4
Swedish Illustration
Swedish Illustration 2 collecets 149 of the country´s top illustrators. A broad selection of work is included – children´s books, book covers, fashion illustrations, technical drawings, textbook illustrations and travel books are mixed with the illustrators’ own projects. Swedish Illustration is an in-depth collection which is broad in content but can also be taken as face value.
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Language: English
Graphic design: Sandra Praun
No. of pages: 408 mm
Format: 165x215 mm
Binding: Hard cover
Published in 2008
ISBN 987-91-85689-19-4
