The Fine Art of Obsolescence

The Fine Art of Obsolescence
Author: Tavius Aiton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1312382090

The Fine Art of Obsolescence is a collection of photographs depicting the evolution of communication technology through the cultural eye of street art. Pay phones have become relicts of technological advancements while also taking on the graffiti style street art. The juxtaposition of taking artful documentary photos of old out of order pay phones with Smart phones is quite a statement about how far we have come in so little time. These are an interesting set of found street art and documentary work as conceptual art.

Obsolescence

Obsolescence
Author: Daniel M. Abramson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 022631345X

Things fall apart. But in his innovative, wide-ranging, and well-illustrated book, Daniel Abramson investigates the American definition of what falling apart entails. We build new buildings partly in response to demand, but even more because we believe that existing buildings are slowly becoming obsolete and need to be replaced. Abramson shows that our idea of obsolescence is a product of our tax code, which was shaped by lobbying from building interests who benefit from the idea that buildings depreciate and need to be replaced. The belief in depreciation is not held worldwide which helps explain why preservation movements struggle more in America than elsewhere. Abramson s tour of our idea of obsolescence culminates in an assessment of recent tropes of sustainability, which struggle to cultivate the idea that the greenest building is the one that already exists."

New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art

New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art
Author: Beryl Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317088662

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries.

Journal

Journal
Author: Industrial Designers Society of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1971
Genre: Industrial design
ISBN:

The Rotarian

The Rotarian
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1960-02
Genre:
ISBN:

Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Free list

Free list
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1922
Genre: Tariff
ISBN:

Combustion

Combustion
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1925
Genre: Combustion
ISBN: