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Book Walter Gropius

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sigfried Giedion
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Walter Gropius written by Sigfried Giedion and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biographical and critical study of German architect, teacher, and industrial designer Walter Gropius, founder and leader of the Bauhaus school, sharing details of his personal and professional life.

Book Harvard Alumni Bulletin

Download or read book Harvard Alumni Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Design History Beyond the Canon

Download or read book Design History Beyond the Canon written by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural material. The authors' research highlights the often marginalised role of gender and racial identity in the production and consumption of design, the politics which underpins design practice and the role of designed objects as pathways of nostalgia and cultural memory. While focused primarily on North American examples from the early 20th century onwards, this collection also features essays examining European and Soviet design history, as well as the influence of Asia and Africa on Western design practice. The book is organised in three thematic sections: Consumers, Intermediaries and Designers. The first section analyses a range of designed objects and spaces through the experiences and perspectives of users. The second section considers intermediaries from both technology and cultural industries, as well as the hidden labour within the design process itself. The final section focuses on designers from multiple design disciplines including high fashion, industrial design, interior design, graphic design and design history pedagogy. The essays in all three sections utilise different research methods and a wide range of theoretical approaches, including feminist theory, critical race theory, spatial theory, material culture studies, science and technology studies and art history. Design History Beyond the Canon brings together the most recent research which stretches beyond the traditional canon and looks to interdisciplinary methodologies to better understand the practice and consumption of design.

Book The Mammoth General Knowledge Quiz Book

Download or read book The Mammoth General Knowledge Quiz Book written by Nick Holt and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bumper collection of 2,800 questions and answers to test even the most ardent quiz fanatic.

Book The Year s art 1969 70

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael W. Dempsey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN : 9780091054304
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Year s art 1969 70 written by Michael W. Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in Art  Architecture  and Design  Victorian and after

Download or read book Studies in Art Architecture and Design Victorian and after written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surveying the Avant Garde

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Cole
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2018-05-24
  • ISBN : 0271081724
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Surveying the Avant Garde written by Lori Cole and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art be?” issued by avant-garde magazines like Imán, a Latin American periodical based in Paris, and Cuba’s Revista de Avance demonstrate how editors, writers, and readers all grappled with the concept of “America,” particularly in relationship to Europe, and how the questionnaire became a structuring device for reflecting on their national and aesthetic identities in print. Through an analysis of these questionnaires and their responses, Lori Cole reveals how ideas like “American art,” as well as “modernism” and “avant-garde,” were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation. Unlike a manifesto, whose signatories align with a single polemical text, the questionnaire produces a patchwork of responses, providing a composite and sometimes fractured portrait of a community. Such responses yield a self-reflexive history of the era as told by its protagonists, which include figures such as Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Jean Toomer, F. T. Marinetti, Diego Rivera, and Jorge Luis Borges. The book traces a genealogy of the genre from the Renaissance paragone, or “comparison of the arts,” through the rise of enquêtes in the late nineteenth century, up to the contemporary questionnaire, which proliferates in art magazines today. By analyzing a selection of surveys issued across the Atlantic, Cole indicates how they helped shape artists’ and writers’ understanding of themselves and their place in the world. Based on extensive archival research, this book reorients our understanding of modernism as both hemispheric and transatlantic by narrating how the artists and writers of the period engaged in aesthetic debates that informed and propelled print communities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Scholars of modernism and the avant-garde will welcome Cole’s original and compellingly crafted work.

Book Thirties  British Art and Design Before the War

Download or read book Thirties British Art and Design Before the War written by Arts Council of Great Britain and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1979 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architectural Review

Download or read book The Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Book The Director as Collaborator

Download or read book The Director as Collaborator written by Robert Knopf and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theatre productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production, including actors, designers, stage managers and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theatre, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises.

Book The Interior Dimension

Download or read book The Interior Dimension written by Joy Monice Malnar and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey brings together primary source material related to the design of interior spaces through history. The authors probe how issues in the design of interior space have been approached by designers past and present and also the influence of fields such as psychology and the fine arts on spatial design. Excellent visual examples clarify different concepts discussed. This book should be of interest to student and professional interior designers and architects.

Book Technicians in Higher Education and Research

Download or read book Technicians in Higher Education and Research written by Kelly Vere and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the technical talent underpinning research, teaching and innovation within universities and research institutes, this book highlights the vital contributions of technicians to the higher education and research sector. Exploring the varied definitions of the technical role and recent developments in the professional landscape, this book brings together a diverse set of contributors who each discuss their unique, first-hand and authentic perspectives on this crucial community. Initial chapters cover the varied definitions of the technical role, explore the current demographics of this workforce and provide a history of the origins of the profession. The book continues to explore broad themes that are key components of the roles of the modern-day technician including teaching, research, leading core facilities, health and safety, procurement, environmental sustainability and research culture. It concludes by looking to the future and explores recent developments in the landscape for the technical community and the work underway to engage the public with technical roles and careers, challenging perceptions and stereotypes about the roles of technicians. Written in an accessible style, this essential volume shines a light on this understudied group to raise the profile of technical careers, roles and contributions, and to ensure sector-wide insights into this invisible workforce. It is a must-read for aspiring and current technicians across all disciplines, education and research leaders, managers and policymakers.

Book Chronology of World History  The modern world  1901 1998

Download or read book Chronology of World History The modern world 1901 1998 written by H. E. L. Mellersh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on over 70,000 events from prehistory to the present.

Book Theatre  Performance and Technology

Download or read book Theatre Performance and Technology written by Christopher Baugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice. Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.

Book Light  The Shape of Space

Download or read book Light The Shape of Space written by Lou Michel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light: The Shape of Space Designing with Space and Light Lou Michel Every design professional who touches a space shapes the light and the feeling of that space. Architect, lighting engineer, interior designer, lighting or home furnishing manufacturer: each contributes an aesthetic layer, sometimes yielding unexpected results. All too often the best laid plans of one professional are unintentionally subverted by another. Removing surprises and guess work from design, Lou Michel, honored architectural lighting educator, has created Light: The Shape of Space, showing how to design with the effects of light rather than light itself. The book is a revolutionary resource for all design professionals and manufacturers of surfacing materials. Drawing on over fifteen years’ experience of research and teaching in the architectural Space and Light Laboratory at The University of Kansas, Michel masterfully examines the interrelationship of lighting and the design of architectural space as perceived not in architectural photos or paint chips and fabric swatches, but by human vision — the gateway to emotional response. The book was written for professionals who care about how people feel in the spaces they design, and focuses on the humanization of architecture. Taking a non-stylistic approach to design, Michel analyzes architecture from the perspective of how the users see their surroundings as they move through space. The reader will learn what pleases and what disturbs people based on how the human visual system responds to color, texture, pattern, and brightness. The book features principles of design for the student and professional, and is generously supported by illustrations and research. Michel also provides a method for evaluating the visual effectiveness of building materials and lighting systems, including those that will appear on the market long after this book is dog-eared. Michel unveils a groundbreaking luminance brightness rating system (LBR) and a nine-zone brightness scale to aid designers in previsualizing the appearance of surfacing materials at every stage of the design process, from schematics to development to refinement. Among the topics treated are: the interaction of lighting and spatial design color theory for space and light the luminance relationships between free-standing objects and the surrounding spatial boundaries against which they are seen the appearance of building materials in color and brightness when modified by light and spatial location lighting spatial connections, including the perception of rooms adjacent to the observer lighting and perception of spaces screened by architectural grilles creating lighted space Designing with the effects of light is both an art and a science. No other book on the market bridges that gap as successfully as Light: The Shape of Space.

Book High Victorian Design

Download or read book High Victorian Design written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: