The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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Just bought this on Vinted!!! Can’t wait to have it on my hands! It was some time I promised myself to buy a book by Nobuyoshi Araki ➕➕➕

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Drawing Codes • Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation • Andrew Kudless & Adam Marcus • AR+D Publishing • 2024 The book examines the effects of computation and digital modeling on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process. https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/drawing-codes

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"Aesthetics Imperfections:How AI is changing the Landscape of Typography|" (Gianpaolo Tucci, 2023) https://www.slanted.de/aesthetics-imperfections/ "... This is not a book on typography, but the expression of a point of view, a practical guide, and an investigation on how the integration and ethical use of artificial intelligence will play a fundamental role in modeling this future. This book witnesses the birth of a co-creation era, urging a rethinking to craft a more human-centric future where AI magnifies human creativity, rather than replacing it. Take a breath, and as if we were unaware laboratory animals, Tucci invites to jump into this journey made of confused, blurred, anatomical, radical, colorful, and sometimes overturned visions."

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"Film Posters: Science Fiction" (Edited by Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh, 2007) . (More pages below)

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I didn’t know “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” was online. Enjoy: https://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

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Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Maltechnik jetzt und künftig. 1930. ‘The painting technique now and in the future’, Ostwald’s seminal contribution to the theory of color.

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William Benson, Chart of colors based on Benson's cube of colors. 1868.

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Waneella's debut monograph is an excellent compilation of her pixel work. Her animated versions of these pieces are what initially hooked me, but the attention to detail is still there in the print version. "Moving chronologically, Decade provides an unparalleled opportunity to see the progression of Waneella’s craft over time. The artworks are interspersed with detailed step-by-step case studies throughout, showing works-in-progress that lay bare the mechanics of the meticulous process of creating pixel art, with Waneella’s personal insight and guidance." https://readonlymemory.com/shop/book/waneella-decade

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realized i hadn't posted this to /the-library adding a few more pages threaded in the reply cast below lots of images from the 90's brooklyn banks and more

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Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (1999) Editors:Ivan Gaskell, Salim Kemal Publisher:Cambridge University Press This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Source: Publisher

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Block coding textuality.... Returning to 'Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs' and particularly this schematic which is pure visual programming. 'Work on good prose has three steps: a musical phase when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven' ~ In One-Way Street, Walter Benjamin, 192

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Not exactly an art book, but the book is a piece of art by itself: . "Tokio Stories , a japonese cookbook" By Tim Anderson . More pages below

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If you're channel member of /the-library you can claim 10K $JAM (I received 50x as a channel owner). I know nothing about it, but it's not a transaction you have to sign. But airdropped (maybe to your Farcaster wallet, would need to dig into it, but no time atm).

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I am very excited to dive into Mirror Stage: Between Computability and Its Opposite, in which editor Nora N. Khan and a cast of 15 luminaries consider the implications of AI and computational culture.

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