#apian

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

[olitheguy]

RUNNING IN THE 90S-

Fire lizards from left to right: @kit-chat, @teshadraws, @apiancat, me

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[wildoute]

[hi-im-just-a-fan-here]

This is really not very good and i dislike the face but i also did not make any high effort art to show you lately so uh. Have this.

[squire-jaybird]

Honeybee on California Buckwheat

[boysencj]

[lvdbbooks]

2022年4月15日

【新入荷・新本】

Apian (Aladin Borioli) Hives, 2400 B.C.E. – 1852 C.E., RVB Books, 2022

11 x 15,5 cm. Soft cover. 448 pages. 375 photographs.

Essay written by Ellen Lapper and Aladin Borioli Graphic design by Nicolas Polli Co published with Images Vevey With support from Pro Helvetia 

価格：3,740円（税込）

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1852年に近代的な養蜂箱が誕生して以来、蜂の巣の構造革新は休眠期に入っています。標準化された箱型の巣箱を好む養蜂業は、4400年にわたる建築の多様性に背を向けているのです。本書は、均質化される以前の、紀元前2400年頃までの歴史に焦点をあてています。固定されたナラティブを拒否することで、直線性は多形性に道を開き、グラフィックデザイン、写真、文章が、蜂の巣の物語を語り継ぎます。375枚の画像で、この増殖する非人間のための建築の歴史を垣間見ることができます。

本書は、理論的、図像学的、民族学的手法を用いてミツバチと人間の関係を研究する「Apian」と名付けられた継続的かつオープンエンドな研究プロジェクトの一環です。

2020年にファースト・エディションが刊行された『Hives』の2022年のセカンド・エディションです。

Since the birth of the modern beehive in 1852, structural innovation in hive construction has entered a dormant period. By favouring the standardised box hive, beekeeping turns its back on 4,400 years of architectural diversity. This little book focuses on that period of history prior to homogenisation, drawing from as far back as 2400 BCE. By rejecting a fixed narrative, linearity makes way for polymorphism, introducing graphic design, photography and writing to retell the story of beehives. The 375 images offer a glimpse into this proliferous history of architecture for non-humans.

This book is a fragment of an ongoing and open-ended research project titled “Apian” which uses theoretical, iconographic and ethnographic methods to research on the relationship between bees and humans. 

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Ursa Minor, Ursa Major and Plaustrum constellations, from Cosmographia (1524) by Peter Apian

The European tradition of identifying Ursa Major with Wagon dates back at least to ancient Greece (Homer could be cited here). In his Cosmographia, Apianus shows these two representations next to each other, depicting the Big Dipper as a wain pulled by three horses (labeled Plaustrum). The seven stars in the asterism were known in ancient Rome as Seven Oxen (septentriones), referring to the animals pulling a plough. Like the oxen on a threshing-floor, they circle around the North Pole, furnishing the adjective Septentrionalis for description of the Northern regions.