Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design

Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design
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Buy this book. Period.

Filling the gaps

Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design

Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0847829111
Release Date: 2007-02-13

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Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The 250 illustrations cover all 58 of his structures, including the Castelvecchio Museum (Verona), the Olivetti showroom (Venice), and the Brion Tomb in San Vito d'Altivole (Treviso), as well as his important glass designs. The book includes essays by leading architects and architecture critics, offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life as well as interpretations of his architecture. Known as the "Frank Lloyd Wright of Italy," Scarpa's decorative style has become a model for architects wishing to revive craft and luscious materials in the contemporary manner.

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Buy this book. Period........2007-03-12

Excellent coverage of Scarpa's work. There are great shots of Scarpa's intricate detailing as well as shots expressing his space making abilities. Scarpa combined the spirit of the international style, the warmth of Finish modernist materiality, and the passion of Italian arts and crafts tradition. He was a modernist with heart. One of the men listed in the acknowledgements gave my studio group a tour of some if his best works in northern Italy including the Brion tomb. The man cried during his lecture. Scarpa brought heart to a building aesthetic that seems largely sterile when comparing his contemporaries on the other side of the Alps. I hope this book popularizes this truely skilled architect and draws greater attention to what he accomplished during his career. This book is pertinent to anyone interested in architecture, interior design, or decorative arts. His genious was as much in the process of design as it was in the completed product. He developed decades long relationships with builders and craftsmen. Buy this book and spend hours studying every detail in the photos. You are going to learn something. You might even shed a tear after leaning how he passed away.

Filling the gaps.......2007-02-16

This book fulfills the promise that "Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works" did not deliver in that it is a very complete survey of Scarpa's built work. Among the things the book does very well includes the photography, which even of works as well documented as the Brion Cemetery and the Castlevecchio, shows very different angles than what has typically been seen elsewhere. I also really appreciate the inclusion of diagrams indicating from where the images are taken.
The book is structured as a chronological survey of Scapra's work, with accompanying text explaining the brief history of the project, Scarpa's involvement (often done as a collaboration or in the case of posthumously completed buildings, the people involved), as well as the structure's current condition (to the extent of showing the Venezuela Pavilion's shocking dilapidation in hopes of spurring a restoration).
I only hope that this book provokes enough interest in Scarpa's work that a comprehensive book on his drawings is produced.

Walt Disney Treasures - Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation

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Would have given 5
Good overall collection of Disney comics
Very uneven collection
Gemstone and Gladstone
Good sampling of Disney Comics

Walt Disney Treasures - Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation
Floyd Gottfredson , Ted Osborne , Walt Kelly , Hubie Karp , Carl Buettner , Bill Walsh , Carl Barks , Gil Turner , Don R. Christensen , Romano Scarpa , Dick Kinney , Eirik Ildahl , Fred Milton , Daan Jippes , Renato Canini , Earl Duvall , Ted Thwaites , Wilfred Haughton , and Al Taliaferro
Manufacturer: Gemstone Publishing
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Disney Presents Carl Barks' Greatest DuckTales Stories Volume 2

ASIN: 1888472375

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Short stories and long adventures marking milestones in Disney Comics history. Join us as we travel from the Mickey Mouse epics of Floyd Gottfredson and Paul Murry to the long Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge adventures of Carl Barks and Don Rosa! Also included are Romano Scarpa's Goofy and Renato Canini's Jose Carioca; Dutch "Donaldism" by Daan Jippes and Mau Heymans; Egmont creators Vicar, Daniel Branca, Byron Erickson, Cesar Ferioli and more!

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Would have given 5.......2007-03-31

But since there is no hardcover addition and this is a cheap destined to break paperback I must give it one star.
Please Gemstone and Dark Horse rerelease your titles in hardback. The quality is unacceptable. Please don't buy the product until you see a hardback edition is offered.

Good overall collection of Disney comics.......2007-01-07

First of all, I did not expect the book to be so small...but then I figured it was made to be the size of an actual comic book page, so I was able to live with that. The contents of the book are excellent, and while I would have appreciated more pages dedicated to discussing the history of the Disney comics, the selections, though random, do provide a nice overall essay of all the different characters that became popular in the comic book format.

Very uneven collection.......2006-11-10

Plenty of great comics put together with mediocre ones.

Why not more Carl Barks'and Fred Gottfredson's creations ? The more recent titles (with one or two honorable exceptions)are well below Bark's and Godfredson's levels.

Gemstone and Gladstone.......2006-08-06

Comics were made to sell for 5 or 10 cents, but the modern comic, even full of distracting ads, runs two or three dollars. Gladstone/ Another Rainbow Publishing came up with a great idea. In the '90s they presented Carl Barks' duck comics in graphic novel format, which they called comic albums, for between six and ten dollars.

Absolutely great, what? You bet, until in one of a string of bloomers the proprietary Disney Company snatched back the license and made a botched effort at doing its own comics (this sort of thing was legion at that time and stirred Roy Disney to make a website called Save Disney). Now for the good news: the entire Gladstone run is still available, and some have even been combined into larger albums including two to four of the original oversize full-color comic albums.

"Disney Treasures", of course, refers to the lavishly packaged metal-boxed DVD sets of cartoons and other retro Disney shows. It's a brainstorm to lay this book out in that format and it holds up quite well, since this brief overview samples the American and European comics from the 1930s to the present.

David Gerstein contributes an invaluable two page essay for this book in which the comics are otherwise presented without comment. He alludes, ever so briefly, to the '50s book, Seduction of the Innocents, which started a crusade against comic books on the grounds that they were too violent and graphic in the gory sense. The result of that was the Comics Code, which was on every Gold Key and thus Disney comic. Dell had its own version of the code, and assured parents that "Dell Comics are Good Comics," thus assuring free access for kids.

Gerstein repeats the old saw that until then comics weren't for kids, and that graphic novels have brought back the pre-code days with a vengeance. I merely retort that the very idea of comics in this era fashioned them for youth and that this innocence brought out the best in Disney and other artists and made Gold Key comics the good part of being sick, since you'd inevitably get the latest adventures of the Junior Woodchucks or Mickey VS the Phantom Blot.

When the license went from Dell to Western Publishing the printing quality declined, but Gladstone later lifted it to a level of archival quality with its beautiful volumes. The general view is that in terms of the silver screen cartoon shorts, Donald was a much more interesting protagonist than Mickey, but in the comics, I think fans of Carl Barks' duck comics (translated well to TV in DuckTales) will enjoy discovering Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse.

So what is the relation of Gemstone to Gladstone? Gerstein assures me that it's the same crew. Whatever the reason for the name change, Steve Geppi, a close friend of the late Bruce Hamilton, founder of Gladstone, is now carrying the torch. The many great cartoons now available on DVD make this a new Golden Age for animation, and more good news: Gladstone/ Gemstone are now leading a comics revival.

Good sampling of Disney Comics.......2006-08-01

With 75 years and probably thousands of stories to choose from, it couldn't have been easy to select the stories that made it into this volume. The folks at Gemstone did an admirable job, though, with a wonderful sampling of rarely reprinted comics from the US and Disney's foreign publishers -- some being reprinted in English for the first time. Most of the legendary Disney comic creators are represented here, from Floyd Gottfredson to William Van Horn to Don Rosa to the immortal Carl Barks. Even Walt Kelly has a short story in this volume.

In addition to a great sampling of creators, this book also has a good sampling of characters. You get the expected stories of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and Goofy, but you also see Lil' Bad Wolf, Brer Rabbit, Bucky Bug, Gremlins, Fethry Duck and Launchpad McQuack taking the helm of their own adventures.

Gemstone has replicated the DVD format, from the cover (including nice art by Don Rosa) to essays by David Gerstein (taking the Leonard Maltin role for the book). The only real weakness to this book is that the stories seem to have been selected solely for their rarity, with no real common theme or thread to hold the book together. Hopefully future volumes in the series will address this issue. As it is, this is a fine sampling, one that any Disney comic fan will enjoy.

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Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Works
Francesco Dal Co , and Giuseppe Mazzariol
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
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ASIN: 0847805913
Release Date: 2002-02-23

Book Description

This volume documents the complete works of Carlo Scarpa, one of the leadig Italian architects of the twentieth century. There are over two dozen essays by leading architects and architectural critics, including Bruno Zevi, Vincent Scully, Arata Isozaki, and Christian Norberg-Schulz offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life and career as well as lucid interpretations of his architecture.

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no pictures.......2003-05-27

I was expecting alot o clearf pictures of his works, and got none. If a text book is what you are looking for, I recomend it but since I wanted mostly pictures, I was very much dissapointed.

Carlo Scarpa. Museo Canoviana, Possagno: Opus 22 Series (Opus, 22)

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Stefan Buzas
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ASIN: 3930698226

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As an extension to the basilica-like museum, built in 1836 for Canova's plaster originals, Carlo Scarpa composed a small, but highly articulated building.

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ASIN: 3930698145

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Hadid has designed an unusual form to be built in a Swabian village creating a contrast between old and new.

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If the book ever came. . . . ........2007-07-20

I have not received this product yet so can't possibly review it. A VERY DISSATISFIED customer.

Eric Engstrom

Uncle Scrooge #362 (Uncle Scrooge (Graphic Novels))

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Don Rosa , Lars Jenson , Pat McGreal , Carol McGreal , Romano Scarpa , Francisco Rodriguez Peinado , and Pedro Alferez Canos
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This issue - Don Rosa's feature-length classic "Return to Plain Awful!" Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold join Donald and the boys for a return trip to South America... and to "Lost in the Andes" infamous land of square eggs! Then it's time for three Scroogian Valentine's Day spoofs. In "Red Roses and Blueberry Pe," Scrooge mistakenly believes his baker is in love with him. In "Love Letters in the Mail," Gyro Gearloose's sentient mailbox looks for an fe-mail. And wanna-be Scrooge girlfriend Brigitta MacBridge is back in Romano Scarpa's "The Dollar Stalactite!"

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Carlo Scarpa
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ASIN: 4887061536
Release Date: 1997-12-31

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A massive book mainly covering the Brion Family Cemetery located near Venice. One of Scarpa's largest projects, this also happens to be the place where he was buried. The overview includes ten other Scarpa creations in Italy such as the Canova Museum and various Biennale pavilions. Hundreds of colour photos of interiors and exteriors, surface details, and surroundings. Colour drawings and photos all printed on thick grainy paper, sturdily bound in a linen hardback, and wrapped in a paper jacket. Similar in concept to Toto's earlier books on Barragan, Candela, and Shinohara.

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In Don Rosa's "Incredible Shrinking Tightwad," a Beagle Boy fray leads Scrooge through a shrink-ray, after which he and Donald end up battling comparatively giant bugs and beasts. Next, in "Out of Shape," Daisy wants to lose weight for a big date with Donald and makes the bad mistake of asking Gyro Gearloose to help her. In "Old Folks at Home," Scrooge's battle with sorceress Magica De Spell leads him to... a retirement community?!? "The Keeper of Babylon Gardens" is Donald, tending to hungry giant plants at Scrooge's new megamall. Finally, Scrooge enters "The Colossalest Surprise Quiz Show," where winning just might make him a loser.

Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection

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Italian art glass of the 20th century represents a high point in the history of the medium. In this century, such legendary Muranese factories as Venini, Seguso and Barovier & Toso, among others, joined forces with major artists, architects, designers, and skilled glassworkers to renovate and expand the traditions of excellence that had been the hallmarks of Venetian glass for centuries. From experiments in new forms, colors, and techniques in the first decades of the century, through the golden years of Italian preeminence in the field at mid-century, to the influx of talented artists from other countries today, Venetian glasswork of the 20th century is a testament to creative spirit and artistic innovation. Presented at the American Craft Museum from fall 2000 through winter 2001, Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection is one of the first comprehensive overviews of 20th century Italian glass art in the United States, and the first in this country to present a heretofore unknown private collection of Italian glass masterworks. The extraordinary design by Massimo Vignelli coupled with the stunning photographs by Luca Vignelli give life and texture to each piece. Responding to the dearth of publications about 20th century Italian glass art available in the US, this accompanying catalogue--featuring over 200 works--is certain to occupy a significant place in the current revival of interest in glasswork as an art form.

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Carlo Scarpa: The Craft Of Architecture
Roberto Gottardi , Arata Isozaki , and Carlo Scarpa
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ASIN: 3775714030
Release Date: 2004-05-02

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For almost 30 years, the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa collaborated with the well-known Venetian cabinetmaker Saverio Anfodillo to construct his designs. The Craft of Architecture documents their work together and gives a survey of Scarpa's oeuvre, one of the most outstanding of the 20th century. This publication is informed and instigated by the MAK's 1999 acquisition of a number of design drawings from the cabinetmaker's archives. These include architectural illustrations for the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, built 1956-1964, the Galleria Querini Stampalia in Venice, built in 1961-1963, and the Tomba Brion in San Vito di Altivole, built in 1970-1978; as well as furniture design sketches and wooden models of design details, some for a table for composer Luigi Nono. The Craft of Architecture presents for the first time plans, sketches, blueprints, and models from this collection, complemented by photographs of Scarpa's most important built projects.

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