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xxv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), color portrait, maps ; 24 cm
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xxv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), color portrait, maps ; 24 cm
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- Greenway, Francis Howard, 1777-1837.,
- Architects England Biography.,
- Architects Australia Biography.,
- Architecture Australia History.,
- Architectes Angleterre Biographies.,
- Architectes Australie Biographies.,
- Architecture Australie Histoire.,
- Architects,
- Architecture,
- Australia History 1788-1851.,
- Australie Histoire 1788-1851.,
- Australia,
- England,
- collective biographies.,
- Biographies,
- History
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Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1953.
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1953.
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Francis Greenway : his life and times / by M.H. Ellis.
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xxv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), color portrait, maps ; 24 cm
Francis Greenway : his life and times / by M.H. Ellis.
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xxv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), color portrait, maps ; 24 cm
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Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1953.
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1953.
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- Greenway, Francis Howard, 1777-1837.,
- Architects England Biography.,
- Architects Australia Biography.,
- Architecture Australia History.,
- Architectes Angleterre Biographies.,
- Architectes Australie Biographies.,
- Architecture Australie Histoire.,
- Architects,
- Architecture,
- Australia History 1788-1851.,
- Australie Histoire 1788-1851.,
- Australia,
- England,
- collective biographies.,
- Biographies,
- History
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2016.
[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2016.
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A Partial Exegesis of Cricket, its Laws and Rituals.
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A Partial Exegesis of Cricket, its Laws and Rituals.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2016.
[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2016.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
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From Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects.
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From Opinions to Images: Essays Towards a Sociology of Affects.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.
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408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
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408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
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- Denken in Modellen. English.,
- Vrachliotis, Georg,,
- Kleinmanns, Joachim,,
- Kunz, Martin,,
- Kurz, Philip,,
- Meissner, Irene,,
- Escher, Cornelia, 1981-,
- Hanselka, Holger,,
- Schielke, Joachim E.,,
- Cowper, Simon,,
- Kossack, Ariane,,
- Otto, Frei, 1925-2015. Works. Selections.,
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe,
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Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
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Frei Otto : thinking by modeling / editors: Georg Vrachliotis and Joachim Kleinmanns, Martin Kunz, Philip Kurz ; translation: Simon Cowper, Ariane Kossack.
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408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Frei Otto : thinking by modeling / editors: Georg Vrachliotis and Joachim Kleinmanns, Martin Kunz, Philip Kurz ; translation: Simon Cowper, Ariane Kossack.
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Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
Leipzig : Spector Books, [2017]
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- Denken in Modellen. English.,
- Vrachliotis, Georg,,
- Kleinmanns, Joachim,,
- Kunz, Martin,,
- Kurz, Philip,,
- Meissner, Irene,,
- Escher, Cornelia, 1981-,
- Hanselka, Holger,,
- Schielke, Joachim E.,,
- Cowper, Simon,,
- Kossack, Ariane,,
- Otto, Frei, 1925-2015. Works. Selections.,
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe,
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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- Art, Brazilian 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Brazil History 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Brazil History 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Arts Brazil Exhibitions.,
- Art brésilien 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Brésil Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Brésil Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Arts Brésil Expositions.,
- Architecture,
- Art, Brazilian,
- Arts,
- Civilization,
- Intellectual life,
- Travel,
- Brazil Civilization Exhibitions.,
- Brazil Intellectual life Exhibitions.,
- São Paulo (Brazil) History Exhibitions.,
- São Paulo (Brazil) Description and travel Exhibitions.,
- Brésil Civilisation Expositions.,
- Brazil,
- Brazil São Paulo,
- Exhibition publications.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- History
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Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
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Brazil contemporary : architectuur, beeldcultuur, kunst = architecture, visual culture, art / Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Brazil contemporary : architectuur, beeldcultuur, kunst = architecture, visual culture, art / Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
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317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2009.
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- Art, Brazilian 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Brazil History 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Brazil History 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Arts Brazil Exhibitions.,
- Art brésilien 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Brésil Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Brésil Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Arts Brésil Expositions.,
- Architecture,
- Art, Brazilian,
- Arts,
- Civilization,
- Intellectual life,
- Travel,
- Brazil Civilization Exhibitions.,
- Brazil Intellectual life Exhibitions.,
- São Paulo (Brazil) History Exhibitions.,
- São Paulo (Brazil) Description and travel Exhibitions.,
- Brésil Civilisation Expositions.,
- Brazil,
- Brazil São Paulo,
- Exhibition publications.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- History
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xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Winds and architecture Italy.,
- Architecture, Renaissance Italy.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects Italy.,
- Architecture Psychological aspects.,
- Vents et architecture Italie.,
- Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.,
- Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Italie.,
- Architecture Aspect psychologique.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects.,
- Architecture, Renaissance.,
- Winds and architecture.,
- Italy.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Aeolian winds and the spirit in Renaissance architecture : Academia Eolia revisited / edited by Barbara Kenda.
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xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Aeolian winds and the spirit in Renaissance architecture : Academia Eolia revisited / edited by Barbara Kenda.
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xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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- Winds and architecture Italy.,
- Architecture, Renaissance Italy.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects Italy.,
- Architecture Psychological aspects.,
- Vents et architecture Italie.,
- Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.,
- Architecture Aspect de l'environnement Italie.,
- Architecture Aspect psychologique.,
- Architecture Environmental aspects.,
- Architecture, Renaissance.,
- Winds and architecture.,
- Italy.
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- Ahmad, Aziza,,
- Ali, Nadia Bou,,
- Bonney, Sean,,
- Boyer, Anne,,
- Brassier, Ray,,
- Brehmer, Noah,,
- Bremner, David,,
- Chitu, Andrei,,
- Choi, Loss,,
- Corna, Luisa Lorenza,,
- Corriente, Federico,,
- Echeverría, Bolívar,,
- Gray, Neil,,
- Hayward, Danny,,
- Hedditch, Em,,
- Iles, Anthony,,
- Jeschke, Lisa,,
- Kahir, Sacha,,
- Khazrik, Jessika,,
- Kotouza, Dimitra,,
- Lucas, Rob,,
- Sicilia, Andrés Saenz De,,
- Simon, Roland,,
- Slater, Howard,,
- Vishmidt, Marina,,
- Endnotes,,
- Library Stack,,
- Mattin,,
- Négation,,
- Théorie Communiste,
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[Place of publication not identified] : Minor Compositions, 2026.
[Place of publication not identified] : Minor Compositions, 2026.
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Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption?.
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Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What Is to Be Done Under Real Subsumption?.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Minor Compositions, 2026.
[Place of publication not identified] : Minor Compositions, 2026.
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- Ahmad, Aziza,,
- Ali, Nadia Bou,,
- Bonney, Sean,,
- Boyer, Anne,,
- Brassier, Ray,,
- Brehmer, Noah,,
- Bremner, David,,
- Chitu, Andrei,,
- Choi, Loss,,
- Corna, Luisa Lorenza,,
- Corriente, Federico,,
- Echeverría, Bolívar,,
- Gray, Neil,,
- Hayward, Danny,,
- Hedditch, Em,,
- Iles, Anthony,,
- Jeschke, Lisa,,
- Kahir, Sacha,,
- Khazrik, Jessika,,
- Kotouza, Dimitra,,
- Lucas, Rob,,
- Sicilia, Andrés Saenz De,,
- Simon, Roland,,
- Slater, Howard,,
- Vishmidt, Marina,,
- Endnotes,,
- Library Stack,,
- Mattin,,
- Négation,,
- Théorie Communiste,
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph(...)
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph(...)
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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September 2005, Cambridge
September 2005, Cambridge
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Trees : national champions / photographs by Barbara Bosworth
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph America's "champion" trees - trees that are the biggest of their species, as recorded in the National Register of Big Trees, a list established and maintained by the nonprofit conservation organization American Forests. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance. Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. Her photographs document the trees' magnificence but also show how they are markers of a changing landscape. The yellow poplar, for example, stands on the fringes of a suburban housing development, in the center of a park for the enjoyment and relaxation of residents. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. The trees and their surroundings tell us about our relationship with nature and the land. Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that shades a midwestern crossroads, the common pear that blooms in a Washington field, and the Florida strangler fig with its mass of entwining aerial roots. Her photographs, panoramic views taken with an 8 x 10 camera, show the immensity of the largest species and the hidden triumphs of the smallest. Some trees are dethroned each year because of sickness or destruction, but more often simpy because a new and bigger specimen is discovered; only three trees from the original Register in 1940 are still living today. Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well. With a foreword by Roger Conover and essays by Douglas R. Nickel and John R. Stilgoe.
Trees : national champions / photographs by Barbara Bosworth
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Trees capture our imagination because they are rooted solidly in the earth but point ethereally toward the sky. They occupy a dimension that has as much to do with time and patience as with place and landscape. They are vertical beings to whom we attribute qualities both divine and human. Since 1991, photographer Barbara Bosworth has been on a quest to photograph America's "champion" trees - trees that are the biggest of their species, as recorded in the National Register of Big Trees, a list established and maintained by the nonprofit conservation organization American Forests. She has traveled down highways and up back roads, walked through forests and across clear-cut land, sometimes led by local tree enthusiasts, sometimes alone, to photograph trees that are remarkable not only for their size but for their endurance. Bosworth finds champion trees in backyards, fields, and forests, near roadways, power lines, and sidewalks. Her photographs document the trees' magnificence but also show how they are markers of a changing landscape. The yellow poplar, for example, stands on the fringes of a suburban housing development, in the center of a park for the enjoyment and relaxation of residents. The western red cedar stands alone in the middle of a clear-cut, saved from logging only because it is recorded in the Register as the biggest of its kind. The trees and their surroundings tell us about our relationship with nature and the land. Bosworth captures the ineffable grace and dignity of trees with clarity and directness: the green ash that shades a midwestern crossroads, the common pear that blooms in a Washington field, and the Florida strangler fig with its mass of entwining aerial roots. Her photographs, panoramic views taken with an 8 x 10 camera, show the immensity of the largest species and the hidden triumphs of the smallest. Some trees are dethroned each year because of sickness or destruction, but more often simpy because a new and bigger specimen is discovered; only three trees from the original Register in 1940 are still living today. Bosworth's 70 photographs of champion trees are not only a collection of tree portraits but the story of an American adventure as well. With a foreword by Roger Conover and essays by Douglas R. Nickel and John R. Stilgoe.
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September 2005, Cambridge
September 2005, Cambridge
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John(...)
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John(...)
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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September 2007, Montreal Kingston
September 2007, Montreal Kingston
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Beyond wilderness : The group of seven, Canadian identity, and contemporary art
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both art and critical writing has looked "beyond wilderness" to re-imagine landscape in a world of vastly altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. By emphasizing social relationships, changing identity politics, and issues of colonial power and dispossession contemporary artists have produced landscape art that explores what was absent in the work of their predecessors. Beyond Wilderness expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings from both contemporary and historically significant curators, historians, feminists, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and historical artists are brought together in productive dialogue. Beyond Wilderness explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took. Contributors include Benedict Anderson (Cornell), Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery). Rebecca Belmore, Jody Berland (York), Eleanor Bond (Concordia), Jonathan Bordo (Trent), Douglas Cole, Marlene Creates, Marcia Crosby (Malaspina), Greg Curnoe, Ann Davis (Nickle Arts Museum), Leslie Dawn (Lethbridge), Shawna Dempsey, Christos Dikeakos, Peter Doig, Rosemary Donegan (OCAD), Stan Douglas, Paterson Ewen, Robert Fones, Northrop Frye, Robert Fulford, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Reesa Greenberg, Gu Xiong (British Columbia), Cole Harris (British Columbia), Richard William Hill (Middlesex), Robert Houle, Andrew Hunter (Waterloo), Lynda Jessup (Queen's), Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions), Johanne Lamoureux (Montréal), Robert Linsley (Waterloo), Barry Lord (Lord Cultural Resources), Marshall McLuhan, Mike MacDonald, Liz Magor (ECIAD), Lorri Millan, Gerta Moray (Guelph), Roald Nasgaard (Florida State), N.E. Thing Company, Carol Payne (Carleton), Edward Poitras, Dennis Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario), Michel Saulnier, Nancy Shaw (Simon Fraser), Johanne Sloan (Concordia), Michael Snow, Robert Stacey, David Thauberger, Loretta Todd, Esther Trépanier (Québec), Dot Tuer (OCAD), Christopher Varley, Jeff Wall, Paul H. Walton (McMaster), Mel Watkins (Toronto), Scott Watson (British Columbia), Anne Whitelaw (Alberta), Joyce Wieland, Jin-me Yoon (Simon Fraser), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Joyce Zemans (York).
Beyond wilderness : The group of seven, Canadian identity, and contemporary art
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both art and critical writing has looked "beyond wilderness" to re-imagine landscape in a world of vastly altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. By emphasizing social relationships, changing identity politics, and issues of colonial power and dispossession contemporary artists have produced landscape art that explores what was absent in the work of their predecessors. Beyond Wilderness expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings from both contemporary and historically significant curators, historians, feminists, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and historical artists are brought together in productive dialogue. Beyond Wilderness explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took. Contributors include Benedict Anderson (Cornell), Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery). Rebecca Belmore, Jody Berland (York), Eleanor Bond (Concordia), Jonathan Bordo (Trent), Douglas Cole, Marlene Creates, Marcia Crosby (Malaspina), Greg Curnoe, Ann Davis (Nickle Arts Museum), Leslie Dawn (Lethbridge), Shawna Dempsey, Christos Dikeakos, Peter Doig, Rosemary Donegan (OCAD), Stan Douglas, Paterson Ewen, Robert Fones, Northrop Frye, Robert Fulford, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Reesa Greenberg, Gu Xiong (British Columbia), Cole Harris (British Columbia), Richard William Hill (Middlesex), Robert Houle, Andrew Hunter (Waterloo), Lynda Jessup (Queen's), Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions), Johanne Lamoureux (Montréal), Robert Linsley (Waterloo), Barry Lord (Lord Cultural Resources), Marshall McLuhan, Mike MacDonald, Liz Magor (ECIAD), Lorri Millan, Gerta Moray (Guelph), Roald Nasgaard (Florida State), N.E. Thing Company, Carol Payne (Carleton), Edward Poitras, Dennis Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario), Michel Saulnier, Nancy Shaw (Simon Fraser), Johanne Sloan (Concordia), Michael Snow, Robert Stacey, David Thauberger, Loretta Todd, Esther Trépanier (Québec), Dot Tuer (OCAD), Christopher Varley, Jeff Wall, Paul H. Walton (McMaster), Mel Watkins (Toronto), Scott Watson (British Columbia), Anne Whitelaw (Alberta), Joyce Wieland, Jin-me Yoon (Simon Fraser), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Joyce Zemans (York).
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September 2007, Montreal Kingston
September 2007, Montreal Kingston
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a(...)
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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July 2007, Stuttgart, London
July 2007, Stuttgart, London
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Gypsy architecture : house of the Roma in Eastern Europe
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a remarkable architecture created by Gypsies. It seems to have been created from a dream : unreal, abstruse, and colourful, it is a composition of all the architectural styles of this world. Uninfluenced by any deeper knowledge of architectural culture, each family head chose the style, size and finishings on the basis of his own personal tastes or memories of travels, houses and things seen in other countries. The result has been the creation of bizarre and fantastic jumbles of buildings that it is hard to classify in terms of western stylistic features. Very often the houses are the result of enormous jigsaw puzzles created from an assembly of images or photographs of various different buildings, and their execution precisely follows these crazy guidelines, perhaps because they are incomprehensible to those carrying out the project. Otherwise, how could one possibly explain Indian-style roofs crowning neoclassical buildings, mansard roofs on structures of improbable style, Frenchified Chinese pagodas, heterogeneous assemblies of diverse and contrasting elements. The structures, the villas gradually soften their bizarre and fantastic imagery the closer they are built to European countries. Undoubtedly, the cultural influence of neighbouring countries already immersed in the culture and lifestyle of Europe has helped to "contaminate" the owners and bring their dwellings, the expression of their wishes, more into line with the ruling culture. What, however, remains staggering is the quality of the execution of the complex decorations, of the architectural elements and buildings that are very often contrasting, of widely differing façades surmounted by steepling roofs of no practical use whose only function is to represent, through their lack of proportion and absolute needlessness, the financial and social power of the family. Besides pieces of sculpture that are undoubtedly ritual and symbolic and originating from Indian culture, suns with spiny rays, various forms of pinnacle, geometrical moons, zoomorphic decorations,the tops of the roofs bear metalwork inscriptions giving the date of building and the name of the family or that of the wife, symbolizing a desire for display and the proclamation of ownership.
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The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people, for Gypsies are regarded as nomads who roam through the world and settle now here, now there, never stay long in one place, and consider everything that normal citizens find important to be an unreasonable restriction of their freedom. Nevertheless, in southeastern Europe, there exists a remarkable architecture created by Gypsies. It seems to have been created from a dream : unreal, abstruse, and colourful, it is a composition of all the architectural styles of this world. Uninfluenced by any deeper knowledge of architectural culture, each family head chose the style, size and finishings on the basis of his own personal tastes or memories of travels, houses and things seen in other countries. The result has been the creation of bizarre and fantastic jumbles of buildings that it is hard to classify in terms of western stylistic features. Very often the houses are the result of enormous jigsaw puzzles created from an assembly of images or photographs of various different buildings, and their execution precisely follows these crazy guidelines, perhaps because they are incomprehensible to those carrying out the project. Otherwise, how could one possibly explain Indian-style roofs crowning neoclassical buildings, mansard roofs on structures of improbable style, Frenchified Chinese pagodas, heterogeneous assemblies of diverse and contrasting elements. The structures, the villas gradually soften their bizarre and fantastic imagery the closer they are built to European countries. Undoubtedly, the cultural influence of neighbouring countries already immersed in the culture and lifestyle of Europe has helped to "contaminate" the owners and bring their dwellings, the expression of their wishes, more into line with the ruling culture. What, however, remains staggering is the quality of the execution of the complex decorations, of the architectural elements and buildings that are very often contrasting, of widely differing façades surmounted by steepling roofs of no practical use whose only function is to represent, through their lack of proportion and absolute needlessness, the financial and social power of the family. Besides pieces of sculpture that are undoubtedly ritual and symbolic and originating from Indian culture, suns with spiny rays, various forms of pinnacle, geometrical moons, zoomorphic decorations,the tops of the roofs bear metalwork inscriptions giving the date of building and the name of the family or that of the wife, symbolizing a desire for display and the proclamation of ownership.
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July 2007, Stuttgart, London
July 2007, Stuttgart, London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
