books about: olafur     books:     Olafur      Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia (Extra Large Series) Philip Ursprung Taschen, 2008 Olafur Eliasson A great artist and a great book in any sense. Thank You Olafur & Taschen             Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project (Unilever) Susan May Tate, 2004 Using such materials as light, wind, steam, fire, water, and ice combined with modern materials, the Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson explores the boundaries between nature, art, and technology. The Weather Project, his installation for the cavernous Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London (part of the Unilever Series), deals with the age-old ...             Hans Ulrich Obrist & Olafur Eliasson: The Conversation Series Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olafur Eliasson Walther Konig, 2008 Hans Ulrich Obrist and Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson have known each other for many years, and have worked together intimately--on exhibitions, book projects, performances and more. Their legendary conversations, gathered here, are revealing, challenging, philosophical--and essential to both oeuvres.             Jahresring 50 Wolfgang Tillmans, De Rooij & De Rijke, ... Walther Konig, 2004 A multi-generational selection of 31 artists was invited to contribute work for this 50th anniversary issue of Jahresring, the Cologne journal of art criticism. After 49 issues dealing in various aspects of art criticism, the editors decided it was time to let art itself take the limelight. Artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, ...             Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson Thames & Hudson, 2007 Destined to become the authoritative text on Eliasson as well as a lasting resource on contemporary installation art. In the work of Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, the sun can rise inside a museum and rainbows can appear indoors. His immersive installations explore the intersection of nature and artifice, transforming ordinary spaces into ...             Olafur Eliasson & David Adjaye: Your Black Horizon Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum, ... Walther Konig/Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2008 Olafur Eliasson, one of today's most acclaimed contemporary artists, and David Adjaye, a rising architecture star, have engaged in a unique collaboration. Eliasson's light installation "Your Black Horizon," which debuted at the 2005 Venice Biennale, was conceived from the start as a hybridization of both of their practices. The piece consists of a ...             Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project Olafur Eliasson Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 As part of its BMW H2R research project, Studio Olafur Eliasson is preparing a dense publication comprising extensive visual material; excerpts from two seminars held in 2006/07; and conversations between Olafur Eliasson and a number of distinguished thinkers, such as architect and artist Yona Friedman, urban theorist Bart Lootsma, and Head of ...             Olafur Eliasson (Contemporary Artists) Madeleine Grynsztejn Phaidon Press, 2002 Young sculptor, photographer and installation artist Olafur Eliasson creates works that explore the relationship between nature and technology. Based in Berlin, the artist rebuilds in the gallery fragments of the environment: icebergs at the Mus+e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'windmills' at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. For ...             The Stars of Constantinople: Stories Olafur Johann Sigurdsson Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1992 Superbly written stories in excellent translation. The short story "The Changing Earth" (which opens this collection by Olafur Johann Sigurdsson) is the most beautifully written story of which I'm aware in world literature. Alan Boucher translated this piece from the Icelandic many years ago, but his new effort is ...             Olafur Eliasson Susanne Gaensheimer, Olafur Eliasson Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003 Since the 1990s, Olafur Eliasson has been exploring cognitive and physical phenomena as we know them from the natural sciences and nature. He uses both technically sophisticated equipment and deceptively simple means such as water or light to create artificial landscapes and moments of perception that let viewers perceive or reenact natural ...             Olafur Eliasson: Photographs Olafur Eliasson The Menil Foundation, Inc., 2004 At once an installation artist and photographer, Olafur Eliasson is noted for conceptual works based on architecture, science, and natural phenomena. Through his installations--composed of materials such as ice, water, light, and metallic crystalline structures--and photographic series of landscapes, he generates a close connection between the ...             Your Engagement Has Consequences: On the Relativity of Your Reality Lars Müller Publishers, 2006 Olafur Eliasson’s large-scale installations addressing aspects of human perception are as fascinating as they are unsettling. Eliasson believes that art is a practice through which vital aspects of society and life may be examined, challenged, and renegotiated. Cultural practices such as art are not driven by capitalistic values, but ...             Rangeland Desertification (ADVANCES IN VEGETATION SCIENCE Volume 19) (Advances in Vegetation Science) Springer, 1999 Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop ...             Olafur Eliason: Scent Tunnel Vanessa Hirsch, Thomas Worm, ... Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005 Visitors to the Autostadt automotive theme park in Wolfsburg, Germany, have recently been treated to a walk-through living greenhouse, a breezeway whose walls are made of rows of potted plants, open from April to September. The rack that holds the pots in place is openwork, and structurally speaking not unlike the one under Jeff Koons's Puppy, but ...             Imperfect Innocence James Rondeau, Gary Sangster, ... Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art/Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, 2003 thought out, down to the title I found this book to be a useful tool for me. It stimulated an interest in photography that was always obscured by my interest for the other visual arts. there are some real gems in here that you will come back to, time and again. you will not be let down by the ...          products you might be interested in search for books consequences, constantinople, contemporary, conversation, desertification, expectations      toavi.com    web we recommend Olafur Eliasson randomly chosen book: The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines ...