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Domesticity at War

Domesticity at War

Beatriz Colomina

When American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartimestrategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind ofweapon.
Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little ...

Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little ...

Beatriz Colomina

A tour of 70 small, experimental architectural magazines published during the 1960s and 1970s offers insight into their format and influence, in a volume that is complemented by reproductions of pamphlets and building instruction manuals ...
Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies

Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies

Beatriz Colomina

This essay propels the manifesto form into the future, into an age where electronic media are the primary sites of debate, suggesting that new forms of manifesto are surely emerging along with new kinds of authorship, statement, exhibition, ...
Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

Beatriz Colomina

Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself.
The Century of the Bed

The Century of the Bed

Beatriz Colomina

"The Century of the Bed" addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.
Beatriz Daza: hace mucho tiempo 1956-1968

Beatriz Daza: hace mucho tiempo 1956-1968

Beatriz Daza

The book accompanies an anthological exhibition of more than 50 pieces created in a 12-year period by Beatriz Daza.
Sexuality & Space

Sexuality & Space

Beatriz Colomina

27 But if we turn instead to Judith Mayne's 1976 essay on "King Kong and the Ideology of Spectacle"-in its own way an "Oil Crisis" text, discussing the appeal o £King Kong to American audiences during the Depression-it is possible to see a  ...
Along the Infinite Sea

Along the Infinite Sea

Beatriz Williams

Decadent and evocative storytelling at its very best., by NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, Beatriz Williams
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

Beatriz Preciado

In Pornotopia, Beatriz Preciado examines popular culture and pornographic spaces as sites of architectural production.
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the ...

The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the ...

John Thornton

This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706.
Cuadernos de cultura del Norte de Santander

Cuadernos de cultura del Norte de Santander

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BEATRIZ DAZA Es sorprendente la pobreza de la crítica de arte en Colombia. Cuatro años después de la muerte de Beatriz Daza, su obra sigue sin estudiarse con la atención que merece. Nadie ha intentado hasta ahora una aproximación ...
La Nueva prensa

La Nueva prensa

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El raro virtuosismo de Beatriz Daza El premio de cerámica de 3.000 pesos concedido por la Alcaldía de Bogotá, Distrito Especial, recayó, no sobre una cerámica en particular sino sobre la ceramista Beatriz Daza. Esta joven artista estudió en ...
50 años, Salón Nacional de Artistas

50 años, Salón Nacional de Artistas

Camilo Calderón Schrader

El raro virtuosismo de Beatriz Daza El premio de cerámica de 3.000 pesos concedido por la Alcaldía de Bogotá, Distrito Especial, recayó, no sobre una cerámica en particular sino sobre la ceramista Beatriz Daza. Esta joven artista estudió en ...
Marca registrada: Salón Nacional de Artistas : tradición y ...

Marca registrada: Salón Nacional de Artistas : tradición y ...

Cristina Lleras Figueroa

Beatriz Daza Pamplona, 1927-Cali, 1968 Crisol para Prometeo PREMIO XV SALÓN. 1963 1963 Cerámica 86 x 35 cm Colección particular, Bogotá Beatriz Daza es reconocida por haber trabajado una sólida propuesta artística a través de la ...
A Certain Age

A Certain Age

Beatriz Williams

New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal...
Testo yonqui

Testo yonqui

Beatriz Preciado

El modelo capitalista actual se asienta en dos pilares fundamentales: la industria farmacéutica y la pornografía.
Overseas

Overseas

Beatriz Williams

Experience a love that transcends time in this sensation debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers and Along the Infinite Sea.
The Wicked City

The Wicked City

Beatriz Williams

The Jazz Age comes alive with a love story for the ages: a rugged Prohibition agent and a saucy flapper from one of Appalachia’s most notorious bootlegging families...
The Transit of Goods in Public International Law

The Transit of Goods in Public International Law

Beatriz Huarte Melgar

Issues discussed in this volume are inextricably tied to the ongoing debate about state sovereignty and the globalization of the world's economies.
A Hundred Summers

A Hundred Summers

Beatriz Williams

As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant and Along the Infinite Sea.
Tiny Little Thing

Tiny Little Thing

Beatriz Williams

The New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant returns with the story of another Schuyler sister, a young woman embroiled in politics, passion, and dangerous secrets.
The Secret Life of Violet Grant

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Beatriz Williams

But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian’s Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she’s been waiting for.

who called from an unknown number?