Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output; it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments - and lifetimes - of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

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A comprehensive, discursive and fully-illustrated catalogue of all photographic materials (negatives, prints, slides) left in the University's photographic archives by W. G. Sebald at the time of his death in 2001, with contextualising interviews, quotations and essays.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY ('do-it-yourself') music venues in the US, such as warehouses, all-ages clubs and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales.

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, it investigates the revivalists' claims about Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county's political status as an independent Celtic nation.

Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi's philosophical emphasis on the need to establish finite boundaries and limits on one's everyday actions.

This annotated anthology presents the first English translation of German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch's collected writings.

Pre-Texts is a methodology developed for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by making art based on challenging texts. Presented in both English and Spanish, this book gathers descriptions and images of dozens of different Pre-Texts activities held across the globe with diverse groups.

The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world's most famous performance artist

This newly expanded edition contains approximately 40 new photos which compliment the original 150 pictures documenting Barbara McQueen's three- and-a-half year relationship with the movie icon, which includes candid shots from 1977 to 1980 - Mcqueen's years out of the spotlight. It chronicles Barbara's early history and modeling career; her years with McQueen at Trancas Beach and Santa Paula as well as behind-the-scene photos on the sets of Tom Horn and The Hunter.

A gazetteer and history of the county's castles, monuments and towers

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume charts the evolution of this scholarly activity, highlighting past accomplishments as well as promising new directions in order to provide a guide to the current state of the field.

This book focuses on the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of Expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, and Japan, in the first half of the twentieth century.

This provocative and timely book explores how what we think of as urban order is partial and restricted, and what we perceive as disorder usually masks underlying orders of social nature. The book is intended for architects, urban designers, planners and urban scholars but also urban policy makers, managers and residents.

Embarque numa viagem emocionante pelo Porto e Douro com este livro que inclui mais de 180 fotografias panorâmicas. O Arq. Álvaro Siza assina o prefácio.

Porto, Gaia e toda a bacia nacional do rio Douro são já um destino turístico de excelência. Se as cidades nos acolhem com a sua história, gastronomia e arte de bem receber, o rio abraça-nos nos seus socalcos que tão bem soubemos aproveitar nas escarpas que vem escavando desde tempos imemoriais.

E se, no dizer do escritor Miguel Torga, o Douro é um excesso de natureza e um poema geológico, temos de acrescentar com uns versos de engenho humano, suor e coragem. Sabendo da riqueza desta bela região, tentámos retratar nestas páginas o que é mais conhecido do público bem como os pequenos tesouros que ainda são um segredo para muitos. Todas as imagens são legendadas em Português, Inglês, Espanhol, Alemão, Francês e Mandarim, incluem as coordenadas GPS do local e, a pensar nos amantes da fotografia, os dados técnicos das mesmas.

Este é o nosso convite, através da arte fotográfica, para vir descobrir ou redescobrir estas paisagens que começam no Porto e Gaia e atravessam Portugal até à fronteira.

Porto - eleito pela 3ª vez o melhor destino europeu em 2017.

Historiador e fotógrafo, Nuno Cardal associa conhecimento e imagem para registar o que o sensibiliza, o que descobre como particular e como essencial: marcas da História e da Geografia, gravadas num território belo e variado - que o olhar continuamente educado do fotógrafo enquadra e glorifica.
in Prefácio de Álvaro Siza

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir: an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted' Sunday Times
'Terrifically evocative ... The most spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late '60s and '70s that any alumnus has committed to print' New York Times
'Render, harrowing, often hilarious' Vogue

In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city resplendent.

Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another.

Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years--the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience.

And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.

This title presents a civilization that never ceases to amaze scholars, enthusiasts and the general public by providing us with exceptional treasures.

Based on interviews with those who knew him and worked with him, White Knuckles: The Life of Gary Moore comprehensively explores his colourful story, for the very first time.

From the opening of King Tut's tomb to the first moon landing, these 100 photos capture some of history's most iconic moments. They remind us that photography not only chronicles major events around the world, but also serves as a means of raising awareness and changing public opinion. This expertly collated book, which includes detailed commentary on each image, is truly unmissable.

Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio is one of the most revolutionary and celebrated artists of all time. His explosive manner exceeded the academic precepts that idealized nature, describing the world in its varied complexity and therefore also in its most humble and raw aspects.

A collection of eight lectures by architect Rudolf Steiner, this text is aimed at students of architectu re, the arts, social sciences, and those whishing to find a deeper spiritual understanding. '

Das Pedras, Pão é um livro sobre paisagens marginais. As paisagens e territórios mais pobres de Portugal que, durante os últimos séculos, eram o depósito de fertilidade que permitia ir produzindo o pão que mantinha as pessoas vivas. Não porque estas terras produzissem pão, bem pelo contrário, eram terras com solos de maneira geral esqueléticos, com muito baixa capacidade de produção.

Eram terras percorridas por milhares de cabras e ovelhas, aqui e ali também por vacas que, numa aliança com o fogo dos pastores, permitiam ao gado recolher nutrientes acumulados nos tecidos das plantas, transportando-os para perto dos campos agrícolas, sob a forma de estrumes.

Este livro pretende ajudar-nos a compreender os processos que estão a ocorrer num território cada vez menos pressionado pela presença humana, onde a vegetação natural tem vindo a ocupar os espaços abandonados e que só o fogo parece perturbar.

O tratamento das narrativas e figuras mitológicas na arte leva então a questionar se existe uma memória visual colectiva. Como propagar e disseminar as histórias da História e as morais a elas inerentes, através dos tempos?

Nuno Faria: «Este conjunto de obras tem como denominador comum a impermanência. Perante estas superfícies — estes ecrãs — somos afectados, estimulados, mais do que como passivos espectadores, fisicamente, fisiologicamente, fenomenologicamente.»

Este livro foi publicado por ocasião da exposição Verdes Moradas - Ensaio sobre os ritmos da natureza, com curadoria de Nuno Faria, patente no Museu da Guarda de 3 de Novembro de 2022 a 9 de Abril de 2023, numa colaboração entre o Museu da Guarda e a Fundação Carmona e Costa.