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340 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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340 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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- College facilities Planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- College buildings Planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- Campus planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- Universities and colleges History 20th century.,
- Visionary architecture Cross-cultural studies.,
- Équipements universitaires Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Constructions universitaires Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Campus Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Universités Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture visionnaire Études transculturelles.,
- 81.35 educational buildings.,
- Visionary architecture,
- Campus planning,
- College buildings Planning,
- College facilities Planning,
- Universities and colleges,
- Hoger onderwijs.,
- Campussen.,
- Universiteitsgebouwen.,
- Planlegging.,
- Universiteter.,
- Bygninger.,
- Arkitektur.,
- Constructions universitaires 20e siècle.,
- Constructions scolaires.,
- Universitetsbygninger 1950- Historie.,
- Cross-cultural studies.,
- History
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New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]
New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]
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The postwar university : utopianist campus and college / Stefan Muthesius.
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340 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
The postwar university : utopianist campus and college / Stefan Muthesius.
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340 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]
New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]
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- College facilities Planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- College buildings Planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- Campus planning Cross-cultural studies.,
- Universities and colleges History 20th century.,
- Visionary architecture Cross-cultural studies.,
- Équipements universitaires Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Constructions universitaires Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Campus Planification Études transculturelles.,
- Universités Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture visionnaire Études transculturelles.,
- 81.35 educational buildings.,
- Visionary architecture,
- Campus planning,
- College buildings Planning,
- College facilities Planning,
- Universities and colleges,
- Hoger onderwijs.,
- Campussen.,
- Universiteitsgebouwen.,
- Planlegging.,
- Universiteter.,
- Bygninger.,
- Arkitektur.,
- Constructions universitaires 20e siècle.,
- Constructions scolaires.,
- Universitetsbygninger 1950- Historie.,
- Cross-cultural studies.,
- History
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x, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
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x, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
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- Urban renewal France Paris History 19th century.,
- Urban renewal Social aspects France Paris.,
- City planning France Paris History 19th century.,
- Rénovation urbaine France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Rénovation urbaine Aspect social France Paris.,
- Buildings,
- City planning,
- Social conditions,
- Urban renewal,
- Urban renewal Social aspects,
- Paris (France) Social conditions 19th century.,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Paris (France) Pictorial works.,
- France Paris,
- Pictorial works,
- History,
- Illustrated works.,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
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Dividing Paris : urban renewal and social inequality, 1852-1870 / Esther da Costa Meyer.
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x, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Dividing Paris : urban renewal and social inequality, 1852-1870 / Esther da Costa Meyer.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022], ©2022
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- Urban renewal France Paris History 19th century.,
- Urban renewal Social aspects France Paris.,
- City planning France Paris History 19th century.,
- Rénovation urbaine France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Rénovation urbaine Aspect social France Paris.,
- Buildings,
- City planning,
- Social conditions,
- Urban renewal,
- Urban renewal Social aspects,
- Paris (France) Social conditions 19th century.,
- Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Paris (France) Pictorial works.,
- France Paris,
- Pictorial works,
- History,
- Illustrated works.,
- Ouvrages illustrés.
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310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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- Pierpont Morgan Library.,
- Rare book libraries New York (State) New York.,
- Research libraries New York (State) New York.,
- Library resources New York (State) New York.,
- Libraries.,
- Rare books.,
- Rare Books,
- Bibliothèques de livres rares New York (État) New York.,
- Bibliothèques de recherche New York (État) New York.,
- Fonds documentaires New York (État) New York.,
- Bibliothèques.,
- Livres rares.,
- libraries (buildings),
- Library resources,
- Rare book libraries,
- Research libraries,
- Handschriften.,
- Oude drukken.,
- Jeugdliteratuur.,
- Boekbanden.,
- Bokkunst.,
- Bibliotek.,
- USA.,
- Kunst.,
- Special libraries New York (State) New York.,
- New York (State) New York,
- Exhibition catalogues.
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New York : ThePierpont Morgan Library, [1993], ©1993
New York : ThePierpont Morgan Library, [1993], ©1993
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In August company : the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
In August company : the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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New York : ThePierpont Morgan Library, [1993], ©1993
New York : ThePierpont Morgan Library, [1993], ©1993
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- Pierpont Morgan Library.,
- Rare book libraries New York (State) New York.,
- Research libraries New York (State) New York.,
- Library resources New York (State) New York.,
- Libraries.,
- Rare books.,
- Rare Books,
- Bibliothèques de livres rares New York (État) New York.,
- Bibliothèques de recherche New York (État) New York.,
- Fonds documentaires New York (État) New York.,
- Bibliothèques.,
- Livres rares.,
- libraries (buildings),
- Library resources,
- Rare book libraries,
- Research libraries,
- Handschriften.,
- Oude drukken.,
- Jeugdliteratuur.,
- Boekbanden.,
- Bokkunst.,
- Bibliotek.,
- USA.,
- Kunst.,
- Special libraries New York (State) New York.,
- New York (State) New York,
- Exhibition catalogues.
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445 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 27 cm.
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445 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 27 cm.
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- Johannes Tortellius 1400-1466,
- Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy) History.,
- Badia di San Sebastiano (Alatri, Italie) Histoire.,
- Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy),
- San Sebastiano Kloster,
- Alatri San Sebastiano Kloster.,
- Abbeys Italy Alatri History.,
- Christian art and symbolism Italy Alatri Medieval, 500-1500.,
- Art chrétien 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) Histoire Alatri (Italie),
- Abbayes Italie Alatri Histoire.,
- Abbeys,
- Buildings,
- Christian art and symbolism Medieval,
- Archeologische vindplaatsen.,
- Abdijen.,
- Kloostergebouwen.,
- Alatri (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Alatri (Italie) Constructions.,
- Italy Alatri,
- Lazio.,
- History
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2005.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2005.
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Walls and memory : the Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) : from late Roman monastery to Renaissance villa and beyond / Elizabeth Fentress [and others], eds.
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Walls and memory : the Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) : from late Roman monastery to Renaissance villa and beyond / Elizabeth Fentress [and others], eds.
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445 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 27 cm.
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2005.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2005.
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- Johannes Tortellius 1400-1466,
- Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy) History.,
- Badia di San Sebastiano (Alatri, Italie) Histoire.,
- Badia di S. Sebastiano (Alatri, Italy),
- San Sebastiano Kloster,
- Alatri San Sebastiano Kloster.,
- Abbeys Italy Alatri History.,
- Christian art and symbolism Italy Alatri Medieval, 500-1500.,
- Art chrétien 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) Histoire Alatri (Italie),
- Abbayes Italie Alatri Histoire.,
- Abbeys,
- Buildings,
- Christian art and symbolism Medieval,
- Archeologische vindplaatsen.,
- Abdijen.,
- Kloostergebouwen.,
- Alatri (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Alatri (Italie) Constructions.,
- Italy Alatri,
- Lazio.,
- History
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This first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Roßlau and Wörlitz, compiled by the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, presents an expert overview of more than 120 buildings and rural expanses with great care and attention given to detail. A multifaceted overall picture arises of a region which not only draws on its rich cultural and(...)
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This first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Roßlau and Wörlitz, compiled by the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, presents an expert overview of more than 120 buildings and rural expanses with great care and attention given to detail. A multifaceted overall picture arises of a region which not only draws on its rich cultural and(...)
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Dessau / Wörlitz architectural guide
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This first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Roßlau and Wörlitz, compiled by the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, presents an expert overview of more than 120 buildings and rural expanses with great care and attention given to detail. A multifaceted overall picture arises of a region which not only draws on its rich cultural and historic heritage, but also plans for the future and ventures out into new terrain. In the shape of the Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz and the Bauhaus ensemble, the city of Dessau-Roßlau and its environs encompass two UNESCO World Heritage sites. These encompass architectural subjects and expanses, both urban and rural, which invite much attention beyond the region itself and have had a lasting impact on the international stage. Beyond this, however, there are a whole host of notable historic and contemporary buildings in Dessau and its surroundings. As the residence of the princes and dukes of Anhalt in the age of Enlightenment and a centre of intellectual and cultural expansion at European level, the city developed into a significant industrial location as of the second half of the nineteenth century. Today, Dessau’s architectural profile is marked by contrasts: alongside restored historic buildings and standard socialist dwellings, there are also experimental refurbishment projects and ambitious new developments to be found.
Dessau / Wörlitz architectural guide
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This first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Roßlau and Wörlitz, compiled by the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz, presents an expert overview of more than 120 buildings and rural expanses with great care and attention given to detail. A multifaceted overall picture arises of a region which not only draws on its rich cultural and historic heritage, but also plans for the future and ventures out into new terrain. In the shape of the Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz and the Bauhaus ensemble, the city of Dessau-Roßlau and its environs encompass two UNESCO World Heritage sites. These encompass architectural subjects and expanses, both urban and rural, which invite much attention beyond the region itself and have had a lasting impact on the international stage. Beyond this, however, there are a whole host of notable historic and contemporary buildings in Dessau and its surroundings. As the residence of the princes and dukes of Anhalt in the age of Enlightenment and a centre of intellectual and cultural expansion at European level, the city developed into a significant industrial location as of the second half of the nineteenth century. Today, Dessau’s architectural profile is marked by contrasts: alongside restored historic buildings and standard socialist dwellings, there are also experimental refurbishment projects and ambitious new developments to be found.
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December 2016
December 2016
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City Guides
City Guides
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Issue 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme—a term that in the first degree we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. In turn, this issue looks to the macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to(...)
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Issue 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme—a term that in the first degree we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. In turn, this issue looks to the macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to(...)
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Texte zur Kunst 101: Polarities
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Issue 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme—a term that in the first degree we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. In turn, this issue looks to the macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to position themselves. What’s particularly striking, we argue, is that this trend toward polarization is happening despite the popular tendency, in recent decades, to speak of increased unification. How, then, can such polarization be reconciled with the dominant, and inherently continuous, neoliberal system—one characterized by the global economy’s promise of inclusiveness; utopian visions of peace (if not survival) via the “singularity” of screen, mind, and body; and a European Union as project of post-Soviet unification, striving to push all conflict to its periphery? What do we make of this growing difference between the ideals of technological/smooth space (where the art world often resides, swiftly neutralizing any resistance as “content”) and the broadening expanses of material unrest? Could the image of polarization be something not to avoid but to engage, at least as a potentially generative model, for understanding true opposition within a continuous system—for times that are anything but free from ideological division?
Texte zur Kunst 101: Polarities
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Issue 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme—a term that in the first degree we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. In turn, this issue looks to the macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to position themselves. What’s particularly striking, we argue, is that this trend toward polarization is happening despite the popular tendency, in recent decades, to speak of increased unification. How, then, can such polarization be reconciled with the dominant, and inherently continuous, neoliberal system—one characterized by the global economy’s promise of inclusiveness; utopian visions of peace (if not survival) via the “singularity” of screen, mind, and body; and a European Union as project of post-Soviet unification, striving to push all conflict to its periphery? What do we make of this growing difference between the ideals of technological/smooth space (where the art world often resides, swiftly neutralizing any resistance as “content”) and the broadening expanses of material unrest? Could the image of polarization be something not to avoid but to engage, at least as a potentially generative model, for understanding true opposition within a continuous system—for times that are anything but free from ideological division?
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March 2016
March 2016
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Magazines
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"Filth" is concerned with what waste reveals about the culture that creates it. From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost,(...)
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"Filth" is concerned with what waste reveals about the culture that creates it. From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost,(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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January 2005, Minneapolis
January 2005, Minneapolis
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Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life
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"Filth" is concerned with what waste reveals about the culture that creates it. From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression. Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays in "Filth" - all but one previously unpublished - range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in nineteenth-century European metropolises, the link between interior design and bourgeois sanitary phobias, the fictional representation of labouring women and foreigners as polluting, and relations among disease, disorder, and sexual-racial disharmony. "Filth" provides the first sustained consideration, both theoretical and historical, of a subject whose power to horrify, fascinate, and repel is as old as civilization itself. Contributors: David S. Barnes, Neil Blackadder, Joseph Bristow, Joseph W. Childers, Eileen Cleere, Natalka Freeland, Pamela K. Gilbert, Christopher Hamlin, William Kupinse, Benjamin Lazier, David L. Pike, David Trotter.
Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life
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"Filth" is concerned with what waste reveals about the culture that creates it. From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression. Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays in "Filth" - all but one previously unpublished - range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in nineteenth-century European metropolises, the link between interior design and bourgeois sanitary phobias, the fictional representation of labouring women and foreigners as polluting, and relations among disease, disorder, and sexual-racial disharmony. "Filth" provides the first sustained consideration, both theoretical and historical, of a subject whose power to horrify, fascinate, and repel is as old as civilization itself. Contributors: David S. Barnes, Neil Blackadder, Joseph Bristow, Joseph W. Childers, Eileen Cleere, Natalka Freeland, Pamela K. Gilbert, Christopher Hamlin, William Kupinse, Benjamin Lazier, David L. Pike, David Trotter.
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January 2005, Minneapolis
January 2005, Minneapolis
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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"Impossible histories" is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and(...)
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"Impossible histories" is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and(...)
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Modernism
Modernism
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July 2003, Cambridge / London
July 2003, Cambridge / London
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Impossible histories : historical avant-gardes, neo-avant-gardes, and post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
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"Impossible histories" is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and Central European avant-gardes. Censorship and suppression kept much of the work far from the eyes and ears of the Yugoslav people, while language barriers and the inaccessibility of archives caused it to remain largely unknown to Western scholars. Even at this late stage in the scholarly investigation of the avant-garde, few Westerners have heard of the movements Belgrade surrealism, signalism, Yugo-Dada, and zenitism; the groups Alfa, Exat 51, Gorgona, OHO, and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater; or the magazines Danas, Red Pilot, Tank, Vecnost, and Zvrk. The pieces in this collection offer comparative and interpretive accounts of the avant-gardes in the former Yugoslavian countries of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The book is divided into four sections : art and politics; literature; visual art and architecture; and art in motion (covering theater, dance, music, film, and video). All of the contributors live in the region and many of them participated in the movements discussed. The book also reprints a selection of the most important manifestos generated by all phases of Yugoslav avant-garde activity.
Impossible histories : historical avant-gardes, neo-avant-gardes, and post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
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"Impossible histories" is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and Central European avant-gardes. Censorship and suppression kept much of the work far from the eyes and ears of the Yugoslav people, while language barriers and the inaccessibility of archives caused it to remain largely unknown to Western scholars. Even at this late stage in the scholarly investigation of the avant-garde, few Westerners have heard of the movements Belgrade surrealism, signalism, Yugo-Dada, and zenitism; the groups Alfa, Exat 51, Gorgona, OHO, and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater; or the magazines Danas, Red Pilot, Tank, Vecnost, and Zvrk. The pieces in this collection offer comparative and interpretive accounts of the avant-gardes in the former Yugoslavian countries of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The book is divided into four sections : art and politics; literature; visual art and architecture; and art in motion (covering theater, dance, music, film, and video). All of the contributors live in the region and many of them participated in the movements discussed. The book also reprints a selection of the most important manifestos generated by all phases of Yugoslav avant-garde activity.
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July 2003, Cambridge / London
July 2003, Cambridge / London
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Modernism
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The Rise and Fall of Artist's Soho documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became-for a brief period-a lexus of creative activity. Part personal memoir, part cultural history, the book examines how a group of urban pioneers were able to transform a neighborhood, while also creating new and classic works of American art, music,(...)
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The Rise and Fall of Artist's Soho documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became-for a brief period-a lexus of creative activity. Part personal memoir, part cultural history, the book examines how a group of urban pioneers were able to transform a neighborhood, while also creating new and classic works of American art, music,(...)
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SoHo : the rise and fall of an artists' colony
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The Rise and Fall of Artist's Soho documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became-for a brief period-a lexus of creative activity. Part personal memoir, part cultural history, the book examines how a group of urban pioneers were able to transform a neighborhood, while also creating new and classic works of American art, music, dance, and theater. Taking advantage of loft occupancy laws that allowed artists to live in buildings not available to the general public, a band of enterprising and creative people began settling in New York's SoHo (so called because it lies South of Houston Street), renovating previously industrial spaces for personal living and work space. Fueled by word-of-mouth-and unsupported either by local or national governments or wealthy individuals-the area grew to be a center for artistic creation. This book not only discusses how the artists came and why, it also focuses on some of the most creative, describing both their lives and work. Such an ideal situation-totally unplanned-could not last forever; the author shows how market forces squeezed out this art utopia, to be replaced by a shadow of itself, "SoMall," with the coming of trendy chain stores, boutiques, and restaurants. European tourists crowd the streets, but the real SoHo is long gone, never to be recreated in quite the same way again.
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The Rise and Fall of Artist's Soho documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York unintentionally became-for a brief period-a lexus of creative activity. Part personal memoir, part cultural history, the book examines how a group of urban pioneers were able to transform a neighborhood, while also creating new and classic works of American art, music, dance, and theater. Taking advantage of loft occupancy laws that allowed artists to live in buildings not available to the general public, a band of enterprising and creative people began settling in New York's SoHo (so called because it lies South of Houston Street), renovating previously industrial spaces for personal living and work space. Fueled by word-of-mouth-and unsupported either by local or national governments or wealthy individuals-the area grew to be a center for artistic creation. This book not only discusses how the artists came and why, it also focuses on some of the most creative, describing both their lives and work. Such an ideal situation-totally unplanned-could not last forever; the author shows how market forces squeezed out this art utopia, to be replaced by a shadow of itself, "SoMall," with the coming of trendy chain stores, boutiques, and restaurants. European tourists crowd the streets, but the real SoHo is long gone, never to be recreated in quite the same way again.
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June 2003, New York
June 2003, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society,(...)
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The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society,(...)
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Surreal spaces: The life and art of Leonora Carrington
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The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in Europe and the Americas. In this evocative illustrated biography, writer and journalist Joanna Moorhead traces her cousin’s footsteps, exploring the artist’s life, loves, friendships, and work. Leading readers on a personal journey across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Mexico, ''Surreal spaces'' describes the places and experiences that would become etched in Carrington’s memory and be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her art and writing—whether her grandmother’s kitchen with its giant stove; a remote Cornish hideaway where she holidayed with Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray; the Left Bank of Paris; an asylum in Santander, Spain; New York, where she lived among other European exiles; or Mexico City, her final sanctuary. 'Houses are really bodies,' Carrington wrote in her novella ''The Hearing Trumpet''. 'We connect ourselves with walls, roofs and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams.'
Surreal spaces: The life and art of Leonora Carrington
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Price:
$54.00
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Summary:
The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in Europe and the Americas. In this evocative illustrated biography, writer and journalist Joanna Moorhead traces her cousin’s footsteps, exploring the artist’s life, loves, friendships, and work. Leading readers on a personal journey across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Mexico, ''Surreal spaces'' describes the places and experiences that would become etched in Carrington’s memory and be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her art and writing—whether her grandmother’s kitchen with its giant stove; a remote Cornish hideaway where she holidayed with Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray; the Left Bank of Paris; an asylum in Santander, Spain; New York, where she lived among other European exiles; or Mexico City, her final sanctuary. 'Houses are really bodies,' Carrington wrote in her novella ''The Hearing Trumpet''. 'We connect ourselves with walls, roofs and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams.'
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books
Publication:
August 2023
August 2023
Subject:
Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
