Zoekfilters
› Bouwkunst, architectuu... (5)
› Beeldende kunst (3)
› Biografieën van kunst... (2)
» Toon alle opties (2)
Resultaten (18)
maandag verzonden
In the Picture - Portraying the Artists
Portraying the Artists
2020 || Paperback || Nienke Bakker || Thoth, Uitgeverij
The role and status of the artist changed fundamentally in the ninetheenth century. Interest grew in the person behind the work and the artist's portrait became a popular genre. Artists were keen to show themselves as individuals as well as painters, while also acting as their own models.
maandag verzonden
The Dordrecht Museum - Looking at Six Centuries of Painting
2020 || Paperback || Liesbeth van Noortwijk || Thoth, Uitgeverij
maandag verzonden
Lab Amsterdam - What can we learn from urban fieldlabs?
working, learning, reflections
2017 || Paperback || Stan Majoor e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme precipitation: the city contains plenty of tough issues, demanding novel approaches in which co-creation and participation by residents, social organizations and knowledge institutions are basic principles.In the fieldlabs, people try to change current practices by working with, instead ...
maandag verzonden
Leonardo da Vinci
The language of faces
2018 || Paperback || Michael Kwakkelstein e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is undoubtedly the best-known artist of all time. He was famous during his own lifetime for his matchless gift for depicting human characters and emotions. He was one of the first artists to become fascinated by the expressiveness of the human face, be it deformed and ugly or beautiful and idealised. This is seen not only in famous paintings like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but even more so in the dozens of drawings that he made of people’s faces.
In add...
maandag verzonden
New historical atlas of Amsterdam
2021 || Hardcover || Jaap Evert Abrahamse e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
This atlas presents the spatial development of Amsterdam through a series of historical and newly drawn maps, from the city’s humble beginnings to the present day, and in an international context. Comparisons are made between Amsterdam and cities like Venice, London, Paris, and Vienna.
Amsterdam originated around the year 1200 as a small port town at the mouth of the river Amstel. In the 16th century, the rapidly growing merchant town became the bustling centre of the province of Holland. A...
A millenium of Amsterdam / druk 1
spatial history of a marvellous city
2018 || Hardcover || Fred Feddes || Thoth, Uitgeverij
How did the landscape now known as Amsterdam look before there was an Amsterdam? Why is the Jordaan so different from the ring canals? Is Central Station in the right place? Why did Amsterdam's impressive planning machine grind to a halt around 1970, and what happened after that? Who owns Amsterdam, and, for that matter, how great is Amsterdam? These questions, and many more, are dealt with in this pertinent, richly illustrated book about a thousand years of Amsterdam's spatial history.Author...
maandag verzonden
The Making of the Netherlands
Landscape, Cities and Architecture
2023 || Hardcover || Reinout Rutte || Thoth, Uitgeverij
maandag verzonden
Europan 14 - Productive Amsterdam
2019 || Paperback || Jonathan Woodroffe e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij
This publication presents a selection of design proposals submitted for the 14th session of Europan, the Netherlands. Europan is an urban-architectural competition for design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, artists, ecologists, and social geographers) under the age of 40. The competition is organized every two years in several European countries, around a common theme, and involving sites provided by cities and/or developers. Europan NL has partnered with the ...
maandag verzonden
The Amsterdamse Bos
2019 || Paperback || Sofia Dupon e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij
Spring 1934. In a boggy clay polder south of Amsterdam, the first sods are cut for what would become the largest urban forest in the world: Amsterdamse Bos. Over the next decades, the so-called Boschplan expanded into a unique project. Creating woodland in the polder was a technological tour de force, and Cornelis van Eesteren and Jakoba Mulder’s modern design caused a sensation at home and abroad. Equally unique were the conditions that surrounded the Bos’ birth. Amidst the hardships of ...
maandag verzonden
The Dutch in Paris 1789-1914
Van Spaendonck, Scheffer, Jongkind, Maris, Kaemmerer, Breitner, Van Gogh, Van Dongen, Mondriaan
2017 || Paperback || Stéphanie Cantarutti e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij