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Title: The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68 by Marc Dessauce, Architectural League of New York ISBN: 1568981767 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: deeper than you thought
Comment: So you thought that inflatable chairs were just goofy, disposable conversation pieces - the lava lamp of furniture, doomed to evoke hazy images of some late 60s lysergic idyll no matter how many times they come back in fashion. This book is here to blow that perception out of the water - to tell for the first time the fascinating story of inflatables: how the idea emerged from the US military, was baptized by the ludic "instant city" manifestoes of Archigram, and became bound up in the politics of the Situationist-inspired street protests of May '68. There aren't quite as many high-quality images as I'd have liked, and from time to time the book descends into unwonted theoryspeak, but I know of literally no other reference on this particular moment - one where optimism, liberation, and technology fused to suggest possibilities where none had existed before. Highly recommended.
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Title: Blow-Up: Inflatable Art, Architecture, and Design by Sean Topham ISBN: 3791326872 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower ISBN: 0393005992 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1971 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe ISBN: 0262680378 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 14 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Documents of Twentieth Century Art) by Robert Smithson, Jack Flam ISBN: 0520203852 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof ISBN: 0821220160 Publisher: Bulfinch Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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