‎KERR, Philip‎
‎Metropolis‎

‎ANTWERP'S GOLDEN AGE. THE METROPOLIS OF THE WEST IN THE 16TH - 17Th CENTURIES.‎

‎Unknown, Smithsonian Institution , 1973/1975 Paperback, pictorial softcover, 16x24 cm., 223 pp., illlustrations in b/w.‎

‎Exhibition organized by the City of Antwerp in collaboration with the Belgian Ministry of Flemish Culture. History of Antwerp - The City - Antwerp Metropolis of the Arts - Painting and Drawing - Sculpture - Medals - The graphic Arts - Typography - The Shop of Christopher Plantin - The Bookbinding.‎

‎REVUE : Le Petite Illustrration : Métropolis. n° 372 - 3 mars 1928.‎

‎Hebdomadaire, Paris, L'Illustration, 1928, in-4, agrafé, couv. photo en noir extrait du film, 12 pp., très nb. photos en noir extraites du film de Fritz Lang, sinopsis du film, "Réalisation" technique du film, RARE plaquette sur le film culte de Fritz Lang : Métropolis. Une anticipation de la cité futur au cinéma. "La Petite Illustration Cinématographique" fut créée en 1925 jusqu'en 1928 (13 numéros) et "raconte" un film de l'époque. Celui-ci est le numéro 11. Une véritable étude critique tant sur l'étude des personnages tant que technique sur le déroulement du tournage. Ces revue furent "signées" par Robert De Beauplan. Bon état; défraîchi avec très petit manque à la page 12 sans alterner la lecture ‎

‎Metropolis in the Making: A Planning History of Amsterdam in the Dutch Golden Age‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 535 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:105 b/w, 100 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503580302.‎

‎Summary After the Fall of Antwerp in 1585, Amsterdam took over its position as the central trade hub in northwestern Europe and grew rapidly to become one of Europesurge in trade and industry went hand in hand with an explosive growth of Amsterdam, in 1613 and 1663 respectively, which increased the surface area of the city fivefold. Around the old town, the famous ring of canals was constructed. Beyond this residential district, mixed-use and industrial zones were laid out, while the construction of new harbour islands resulted in a five-kilometre waterfront along the borders of the IJ, the sea-branch that connected Amsterdam to the rest of the world. In the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam became an extraordinarily modern city, laid out in accordance with the trifold demand for functionality, beauty, and profit. It thus occupies a unique place in planning history because of its location, design, and impressive scale. This book examines how the administrative bodies of Amsterdam managed to undertake and complete these immense projects from the viewpoints of urban design, infrastructure, water management, logistics, and finance. The first part of this study is dedicated to the extension projects. A thorough analysis of extant administrative archives and numerous cartographic documents has enabled the author to reconstruct the decision-making process concerning the scale, design, and realization of the extensions. The second part examines in detail the use of the land, public space, and water management. Metropolis in the Making tells the story of one of the most meticulously planned cities in the world, and reveals how Amsterdam thus became, among many other things, a significant cradle of early modern capitalism and urbanism.‎

‎Bert Timmermans Exorcising the Metropolis Expo: 20/11/2015 - 10/01/2016,‎

‎, Roberto Polo Gallery , 2015 Hardback, 267x210mm, 88p, 39 colour illustrations, English edition . ISBN 9791092599107.‎

‎Bert Timmermans I Exorcising the Metropolis is composed of eight series totalling forty-three works, forty in mixed media on cardboard, and three in serigraphy and mixed media on aluminium, all created from 2013 to 2015. One work, independent from the aforementioned series, is in serigraphy on paper. The exhibition is accompanied by an 88-page illustrated hardback catalogue featuring an interview of the artist conducted by the Belgian audio-visual expert, writer, journalist and film director, Henri Roanne-Rosenblatt, Dean of the Office of the Royal Belgian Film Archive and member of the Union of Film Critics. Bert Timmermans, born in 1976, is a Belgian artist, art historian, archivist, historian and author living and working in Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in art history from the Catholic University of Leuven. His practice is rooted in the tradition of pioneering early twentieth century cultural theorists and archival image archeologists Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, who studied the nexus between iconology and media, image and history. Timmermans? art deals with the stratification of history, its memory and amnesia, along with all of its replete as well as void spaces, and how these metamorphose reality. He is fascinated with the concept of time and how it re-dimensions reality by depositing and removing strata on and from the collective memory. The stratification and removal of media from the pictorial surface, construction and de-construction, are at the heart of Timmermans? creative process. It is about adding, deleting and re-contextualising visual information. He telescopes the past through the present. Unlike his illustrious precursors Kurt Schwitters, John Heartfield, Alexander Rodchenko, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Timmermans assembles archival, historical, not contemporary images. ‎

‎Metropolis. ‎

‎ Eau-forte originale imprimée sur Japon. Signée, titrée, datée 1975 et justifiée 15/30. Marge un peu froissée (30,4/42 cm). ‎