{"product_id":"la-machine-machines-de-ville-9782330136437","title":"La Machine: Machines de Ville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside the world of La Machine's fantastical street theater, from mechanical bestiaries to urban spectacles \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1999, French production company La Machine has been creating live events and installations with astounding, gigantic mechanical animals and performing machinery. Through four exemplary projects in Nantes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Toulouse and Calais, \u003ci\u003eLa Machine: Machines de ville\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the elegant dynamics of this mechanical bestiary relate to space and to human performers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fully illustrated book charts the daily lives of the company, its members, artists, technicians and artisans, and how they undertake such visionary projects of mechanical urban architecture in order to create fantastically scaled dragons, minotaurs, frogs, crocodiles, spiders, mammoths and many other creatures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn intricately detailed and labeled drawings and full-color photographs of the machines at every stage of their life, from construction to performance, the stories of these machines--and the people who build them--are collected here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Actes Sud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782330136437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 10.20w x 0.80d","brand":"David Mangin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38472107524277,"sku":"9782330136437","price":28.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_468025c1-e90e-4aac-84eb-213b2b816ffe.jpg?v=1612933830","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/la-machine-machines-de-ville-9782330136437","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}