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A study of the history of "serial thinking" in modern music (and architecture) from about 1950 to 2000, as a way of liberating the creative mind from the romantic compulsions of the past. With black and white, and a few color, illustrations. Out of print and scarce.
Condition: Very Good.
Item #832
Pattern-Thinking is a major reassessment of Fuller’s legacy in the context of design, examining his singular vision of new conceptual models for design and architecture, alongside his ideas on their potentially world-altering consequences. Drawing extensively on his archive and with over 300 images, the book follows Fuller’s explorations of geometry, language and intellectual property in their relation to design principles and pedagogy, organizing its survey of Fuller’s work through parallel conceptual threads rather than in a linear chronology of his career.
Condition: New.
Item #1176
The complete run (7 issues) of Electronic Music Review, a quarterly periodical established to provide a source of information and mode of discourse on all aspects regarding the developing field of electronic music. Contributors included some of the leading avant-garde composers, educators, writers, and engineers of the period including Bode, Stockhausen, Berio, LeCaine, Carlos, Mumma, Davies, Cary, Dolby, and Moog. Notably, these were composer Douglas Leedy's copies and he has signed his name to the front cover or inside cover of all issues. Leedy was involved with the West Coast.....
Item #668
The 1957 edition of this scarce title. Conversations with 35 American painters, sculptors, and architects by Selden Rodman, including Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Morris Graves, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Ben Shahn, among others.
Condition: Very Good, sunning to dust jacket spine and rubbing along jacket spine folds; age toning to interior pages.
Item #931
