Arts & Architecture 1945-54: The Complete Reprint - Reviews
"Rather than fillet the finest bits from an iconic magazine, TASCHEN has gone the whole hog and reprinted the lot...Though almost demanding its own bespoke storage, this edition is certainly worth the investment in shelving...This box set is an inspirational example of the magazine as a total work of art - a subject that's very close to our hearts."Wallpaper*, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Coffee-table king TASCHEN has obligingly just published a book that reproduces every issue of Arts & Architecture magazine from 1945 to 1954. Lovingly produced, modestly circulated and decidedly liberal, Arts & Architecture was a bubble in which earnest California modernism found a safe haven...As economic feats take hold, this beautiful facsimile compendium of A&A reminds us that the US was once a place where architects and artists were able to fulfil their wildest dreams."TANK Magazine, LondonUnited Kingdom |
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"Leafing through, you get something akin to the original experience of encountering the magazine when it arrived by second-class mail or on the newsstand. (On the back cover of a few issues, there is an address label for "Mr. Julius Shulman," as if to prove the authenticity of the reprint.) This kind of faithful reproduction -- so disastrous in architecture itself - reanimates the provisional quality of Entenza's work. Nowadays, Modernism is a commodity. In the pages of the reprinted Arts & Architecture, none of the ideas or images seems quite so fixed. Modernism has a bit of its incipient, and radical, energy restored."Los Angeles Times, Los AngelesUnited States |
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"Les éditions TASCHEN rééditent sous la forme de coffrets les dix premières années de parution (1945-1954) de la revue Arts & Architecture. Pour le plaisir d'un lectorat élargi, l'édition d'origine est respectée scrupuleusement, même couvertures papier et publicités. Ainsi des superbes couvertures colorées réalisées principalement par le graphiste Herbert Matter et occasionnellement par les architectes Ray Eames, Mies van der Rohe, André Bloc. L'ensemble des travaux graphiques de la revue présente encore des références n'ayant rien perdu de leur vigueur. David F. Travers, successeur d'Entenza et directeur de la publication de 1963 à 1967, signe la préface et explique combien l'aventure relève d'un bouillonnement culturel dont seront issus les artistes Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooening, l'écrivain Clément Greenberg. Malgré ses conditions de publications élitistes - 5 000 exemplaires numérotés vendus 500 euros -, les coffrets permettent de plonger avec délice au cœur de cette époque. Il faudra patienter jusqu'à la fin 2009 pour la réimpression de la deuxième décennie, 1955-1967."artpress, ParisFrance |
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Arts & Architecture in a massive reprintCA Modern Magazine, United States, May 01, 2010 |
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Arts & ArchitectureSan Diego Home and Garden, United States, March 27, 2009 |
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Un "Meilleur Livre" de 6076 pages!Tendance Deco, France, March 01, 2009 |
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Arts & Architecture 1945-54: The Complete ReprintArchitectural Review, United Kingdom, March 01, 2009 |
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Arts & ArchitectureTo Vima, Greece, February 02, 2009 |
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Best Book: Arts & Architecture, 1945-54Wallpaper, United Kingdom, February 01, 2009 |
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