art-SITES Britain & Ireland: Contemporary Art + Architecture Handbook
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This guide is ideal for art enthusiasts, architects, or travelers who want to explore big cities as well as areas off the beaten track. It tells where to go to experience the exciting new hubs of vanguard art activity in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, and elsewhere. In-depth commentaries, plentiful illustrations, practical details, and clear maps make getting around easy and enjoyable. The handbook covers museums, galleries, exhibition spaces, innovative buildings, film centers, public art, sculpture parks, bookstores, and art fairs. Published and distributed by art-SITES Press, San Francisco.
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Summary: TIME Magazine raves about art-SITES
Comment: If architecture is, as they say, frozen music, this series of books should help thaw the ice. Author Sidra Stich, an art historian and curator, traveled extensively during the preparation of these works. Like all good ideas, this one is simple: assemble photos of an area's great architecture and art sites and put them in a small book suitable for travelers. Intelligent histories bring the subjects to life, particularly for those who appreciate art and architecture but aren't experts. Stich covers the territory comprehensively, finding interesting creations in unlikely places--like the M8 highway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, home to Patricia Leighton's organic sculpture Sawtooth Ramps, and a small herd of grazing sheep who keep the art mowed. The guide offers enough insight to help you immerse yourself in the artistic life of your destination. It details where you can find innovative works by new artists and guides you through more obvious destinations, such as London's new Tate Modern. The first two books in the series deal with Britain (plus Ireland) and France. Japan and Spain are next, and the publisher hopes to cover the globe.
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Summary: An outstanding art site compendium and travel guide.
Comment: In art-SITES: Britain & Ireland, Sidra Stich provides a compendium of galleries and exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture in a unique, "travel planning friendly" handbook format. Readers will learn all about contemporary trends and ongoing artistic activities, identification of places where one can see the most innovative work by leading and emerging international talents, plus in-depth and detailed commentaries on museums, galleries, exhibition spaces, architecture, film centers, public art, sculpture parks, bookstores and festivals in British and Irish cities ranging from London, Oxford, and Cambridge, to Glasgow, Dublin, and Belfast. If you appreciate modern art and contemporary architecture, don't leave home for a trip to the British isles without your personal copy of art-SITES: Britain & Ireland.
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