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Book Out of Place

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780933856752
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Out of Place written by and published by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melchiorre Caf

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  • Author : Alessandra Anselmi
  • Publisher : Midsea Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Melchiorre Caf written by Alessandra Anselmi and published by Midsea Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

Book Roman Baroque Sculpture

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  • Author : Jennifer Montagu
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300053661
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Roman Baroque Sculpture written by Jennifer Montagu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to enable the reader to appreciate, understand and evaluate the sculptural monuments of the Roman Baroque.

Book Vernacular Modernism

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  • Author : Maiken Umbach
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780804753432
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Vernacular Modernism written by Maiken Umbach and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.

Book Art and Landscape

Download or read book Art and Landscape written by International Federation of Landscape Architects. Central Region Symposium and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernism and the Mediterranean

Download or read book Modernism and the Mediterranean written by JanK. Birksted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jos?uis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Mir?labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.

Book From the Sculptor s Hand

Download or read book From the Sculptor s Hand written by Ian Wardropper and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dist. by Univ. of Washington Pr., Exhibition: 2/28-5/3/98; Phila. Mus. 5/16-8/2/98.

Book Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

Download or read book Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean written by Jean-Francois Lejeune and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Book Sitte  Hegemann and the Metropolis

Download or read book Sitte Hegemann and the Metropolis written by Charles Bohl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within today’s multi-cultural modern cities. The volume brings together the rich perspectives on the thought, practice and influence of leading figures from the great era of civic art that began in the nineteenth century and blossomed in the early twentieth century as documented in the works of Werner Hegemann and his contemporaries and considered fundamental to contemporary practice.

Book The Werkbund

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  • Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300068986
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Werkbund written by Frederic J. Schwartz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic developments of modernity. This work explores the ideology and aesthetic positions in the debates among those who comprised the Werkbund.

Book Rural Utopia and Water Urbanism

Download or read book Rural Utopia and Water Urbanism written by Jean-François Lejeune and published by Dom Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title studies the reconstruction of the towns devastated during the Civil War. The consequent strategy of interior colonization entailed the construction of more than 300 new villages or pueblos, each designed as a "rural utopia" under the national-catholic regime.

Book Patterns in Late Medici Art Patronage

Download or read book Patterns in Late Medici Art Patronage written by Edward L. Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Patterns in Late Medici Art Patronage, will be forthcoming.

Book Manifesto of New Realism

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  • Author : Maurizio Ferraris
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2014-12-01
  • ISBN : 1438453795
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Manifesto of New Realism written by Maurizio Ferraris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set against different forms of idealism and subjectivism. Maurizio Ferraris's Manifesto of New Realism takes aim at postmodernism and hermeneutics, arguing against their emphasis on reality as constructed and interpreted. While acknowledging the value of these criticisms of traditional, dogmatic realism, Ferraris insists that the insights of postmodernism have reached a dead end. Calling for the discipline to turn its focus back to truth and the external world, Ferraris's manifesto—which sparked lively debate in Italy and beyond—offers a wiser realism with social and political relevance.

Book Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture  1580 1630

Download or read book Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580 1630 written by Howard Hibbard and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean

Download or read book Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean written by Vojtech Jirat-Wasiuty?ski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the 'idea of the Mediterranean' - a cultural construct rather than a physical reality - at the centre of our understanding of modern visual culture. This collection of essays features an international group of scholars who examine competing visions of the Mediterranean in terms of modernity and cultural identity, questioning and illuminating both European and non-European representations. An introductory essay frames the analysis in terms of a new spatial paradigm of the Mediterranean as a geographic, historical, and cultural region that emerged in the late eighteenth century, as France and Britain colonized the surrounding territories. Essays are grouped around three vital themes: visualization of the space of the new Mediterranean; varied uses of the classical paradigm; and issues of identity and resistance in an age of modernity and colonialism. Drawing on recent geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological studies, contributors address the visual representation of identity in both the European and the 'Oriental, ' the colonial and post-colonial Mediterranean.

Book Villages in the Sun

Download or read book Villages in the Sun written by Myron Goldfinger and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historiography of Modern Architecture

Download or read book The Historiography of Modern Architecture written by Panayotis Tournikiotis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.