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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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- Futurism (Art) Exhibitions.,
- Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.,
- Futurisme (Art) Expositions.,
- Photographie artistique Expositions.,
- Futurism (Art),
- Photography, Artistic,
- Fotografie.,
- Futurisme.,
- Photography, Artistic Italy Exhibitions.,
- Futurisme (art) Italie.,
- Photographie Italie 1900-1945.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Books.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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London : Merrell, 2001.
London : Merrell, 2001.
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Futurism & photography / Giovanni Lista.
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160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Futurism & photography / Giovanni Lista.
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London : Merrell, 2001.
London : Merrell, 2001.
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- Futurism (Art) Exhibitions.,
- Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.,
- Futurisme (Art) Expositions.,
- Photographie artistique Expositions.,
- Futurism (Art),
- Photography, Artistic,
- Fotografie.,
- Futurisme.,
- Photography, Artistic Italy Exhibitions.,
- Futurisme (art) Italie.,
- Photographie Italie 1900-1945.,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Books.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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xviii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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xviii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013. Lightning field.,
- Turrell, James Criticism and interpretation.,
- Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956- Criticism and interpretation.,
- Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956-,
- Turrell, James.,
- Blur Building (Expo.02, Switzerland),
- Édifice-nuage Blur (Expo.02, Suisse),
- Lightning field (De Maria, Walter),
- Light in art.,
- Light art.,
- Art and religion.,
- Earthworks (Art),
- Lumière dans l'art.,
- Art de la lumière.,
- Art et religion.,
- Land art.,
- light art.,
- earthworks (sculpture),
- Konst och religion.,
- Ljus i konsten.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013., ©2013
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013., ©2013
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Arts of wonder : enchanting secularity--Walter de Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy / Jeffrey L. Kosky.
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Arts of wonder : enchanting secularity--Walter de Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy / Jeffrey L. Kosky.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013., ©2013
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013., ©2013
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- De Maria, Walter, 1935-2013. Lightning field.,
- Turrell, James Criticism and interpretation.,
- Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956- Criticism and interpretation.,
- Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956-,
- Turrell, James.,
- Blur Building (Expo.02, Switzerland),
- Édifice-nuage Blur (Expo.02, Suisse),
- Lightning field (De Maria, Walter),
- Light in art.,
- Light art.,
- Art and religion.,
- Earthworks (Art),
- Lumière dans l'art.,
- Art de la lumière.,
- Art et religion.,
- Land art.,
- light art.,
- earthworks (sculpture),
- Konst och religion.,
- Ljus i konsten.,
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
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xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Nationalism India History.,
- Nationalism India Bengal History.,
- Nationalisme Inde Histoire.,
- Nationalisme Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire.,
- 15.75 history of Asia.,
- Nationalism,
- Kolonialismus,
- Kolonialisme.,
- Postkolonialisme.,
- Nationalisme.,
- Culturele identiteit.,
- Nationalisme Bengale Histoire.,
- India History British occupation, 1765-1947.,
- India History 20th century.,
- Inde Histoire 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique),
- Inde Histoire 20e siècle.,
- India,
- India Bengal,
- Indien,
- Inde 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique),
- Inde 20e siècle.,
- Nationalism History,
- kolonialisme,
- nationalisme,
- colonialism,
- geschiedenis,
- history,
- west bengal,
- great britain,
- International Politics,
- Internationale Politiek,
- History
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993], ©1993
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993], ©1993
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The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories / Partha Chatterjee.
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xiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories / Partha Chatterjee.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993], ©1993
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993], ©1993
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- Nationalism India History.,
- Nationalism India Bengal History.,
- Nationalisme Inde Histoire.,
- Nationalisme Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) Histoire.,
- 15.75 history of Asia.,
- Nationalism,
- Kolonialismus,
- Kolonialisme.,
- Postkolonialisme.,
- Nationalisme.,
- Culturele identiteit.,
- Nationalisme Bengale Histoire.,
- India History British occupation, 1765-1947.,
- India History 20th century.,
- Inde Histoire 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique),
- Inde Histoire 20e siècle.,
- India,
- India Bengal,
- Indien,
- Inde 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique),
- Inde 20e siècle.,
- Nationalism History,
- kolonialisme,
- nationalisme,
- colonialism,
- geschiedenis,
- history,
- west bengal,
- great britain,
- International Politics,
- Internationale Politiek,
- History
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Postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddle the by now largely obliterated line between 'high' and 'low' art, between an earlier modernist art history and more recent work in visual(...)
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Postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddle the by now largely obliterated line between 'high' and 'low' art, between an earlier modernist art history and more recent work in visual(...)
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Postcards: ephemeral histories of modernity
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Postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddle the by now largely obliterated line between 'high' and 'low' art, between an earlier modernist art history and more recent work in visual culture. This illustrated volume brings together the latest interdisciplinary research on postcards as a significant area of scholarly inquiry.
Postcards: ephemeral histories of modernity
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Postcards epitomize the complex history of visual culture. These often nostalgic, inexpensive mementos of commercial culture have also been carriers, even instigators, of colonialist exoticism and political propaganda. They straddle the by now largely obliterated line between 'high' and 'low' art, between an earlier modernist art history and more recent work in visual culture. This illustrated volume brings together the latest interdisciplinary research on postcards as a significant area of scholarly inquiry.
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May 2010
May 2010
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Printed Matter
Printed Matter
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xi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 58 mc
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xi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 58 mc
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- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Critique et interprétation.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.,
- Loos, Adolf, (1870-1933) Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, (1887-1965) Archives.,
- Mass media and architecture.,
- Architecture and society.,
- Médias et architecture.,
- Architecture et société.,
- Bouwkunst.,
- Architectuurtheorieën.,
- Massamedia.,
- Public relations.,
- Arquitetura.,
- Arquitetura moderna.,
- Architecture Aspect social.,
- Architecture Modernism,
- Archives
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
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Privacy and publicity : modern architecture as mass media / Beatriz Colomina.
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xi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 58 mc
Privacy and publicity : modern architecture as mass media / Beatriz Colomina.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
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- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Critique et interprétation.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.,
- Loos, Adolf, (1870-1933) Archives.,
- Le Corbusier, (1887-1965) Archives.,
- Mass media and architecture.,
- Architecture and society.,
- Médias et architecture.,
- Architecture et société.,
- Bouwkunst.,
- Architectuurtheorieën.,
- Massamedia.,
- Public relations.,
- Arquitetura.,
- Arquitetura moderna.,
- Architecture Aspect social.,
- Architecture Modernism,
- Archives
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What begins as a meditation on "the museum" becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex(...)
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What begins as a meditation on "the museum" becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex(...)
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Brain of the earth's body : art, museums and the phantasms of modernity
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What begins as a meditation on "the museum" becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Donald Preziosi presents case studies of major institutions that, he argues, have defined--and are still defining--the possible limits of museological and art historical theory and practice. These include Sir John Soane's Museum in London, preserved in its 1837 state; the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851; and four museums founded by Europeans in Egypt in the late nineteenth century, which divided up that country's history into "ethnically marked" aesthetic hierarchies and genealogies that accorded with Europe's construction of itself as the present of the world's past, and the "brain of the earth's body." Through this epistemological and institutional archaeology, Preziosi unearths the outlines of the more radical Enlightenment project that academic art history, professional museology, and art criticism have rendered marginal or invisible. Finally, he sketches a new theory about art, artifice, and visual signification in the cracks and around the margins of the "secular theologisms" of the globalized imperial capital called modernity.
Brain of the earth's body : art, museums and the phantasms of modernity
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What begins as a meditation on "the museum" becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art but the ways in which we understand modernity itself. Originally delivered as the 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts at Oxford University, the book makes its deeply complex argument remarkably accessible and powerfully clear. Concentrating on a period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, Donald Preziosi presents case studies of major institutions that, he argues, have defined--and are still defining--the possible limits of museological and art historical theory and practice. These include Sir John Soane's Museum in London, preserved in its 1837 state; the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851; and four museums founded by Europeans in Egypt in the late nineteenth century, which divided up that country's history into "ethnically marked" aesthetic hierarchies and genealogies that accorded with Europe's construction of itself as the present of the world's past, and the "brain of the earth's body." Through this epistemological and institutional archaeology, Preziosi unearths the outlines of the more radical Enlightenment project that academic art history, professional museology, and art criticism have rendered marginal or invisible. Finally, he sketches a new theory about art, artifice, and visual signification in the cracks and around the margins of the "secular theologisms" of the globalized imperial capital called modernity.
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July 2003, Minneapolis
July 2003, Minneapolis
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Museology
Museology
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207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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- Christian Schmid -- Jennifer Robinson -- Patrick Le Gales -- Erik Swyngedouw -- Roger Keil -- Benedikte Zitouni -- David Gissen -- Louis Moreno -- Hyun Bang Shin -- Michael Edwards -- Mustafa Dikec -- Karen Bakker -- Stephen Graham -- Sarah Bell -- Meike Wolf -- AbdouMaliq Simone -- Leandro Minuchin -- Giles Omezi -- Andrew Harris -- Pushpa Arabindoo -- Johan Andersson -- Maren Hamack -- Jane Rendell -- Ben Campkin -- Ger Duijzings -- Matthew Gandy -- Sandra Jasper -- Lucrezia Lennert -- Noam Leshem -- Karen E. Till -- Stephen Barber -- Joachim Schlor -- Karolina Kendall-Bush -- Iain Borden -- Mark Tewdwr-Jones -- Rebecca Ross.,
- Gandy, Matthew.
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- Urbanization Social aspects.,
- Urbanization Political aspects.,
- Urbanization Economic aspects.,
- Urban policy.,
- City planning.,
- Cities and towns.,
- Sociology, Urban.,
- Cities,
- Urbanization,
- Urbanisation Aspect social.,
- Urbanisation Aspect politique.,
- Urbanisation Aspect économique.,
- Politique urbaine.,
- Villes.,
- Sociologie urbaine.,
- cities.,
- urbanization.,
- urban sociology.,
- Society.,
- Stadt,
- Kultur,
- Urbanität,
- Stadtentwicklung,
- Sozialökologie
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Berlin : Jovis, ©2011.
Berlin : Jovis, ©2011.
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Urban constellations / Matthew Gandy (ed.).
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207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Urban constellations / Matthew Gandy (ed.).
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Berlin : Jovis, ©2011.
Berlin : Jovis, ©2011.
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- Christian Schmid -- Jennifer Robinson -- Patrick Le Gales -- Erik Swyngedouw -- Roger Keil -- Benedikte Zitouni -- David Gissen -- Louis Moreno -- Hyun Bang Shin -- Michael Edwards -- Mustafa Dikec -- Karen Bakker -- Stephen Graham -- Sarah Bell -- Meike Wolf -- AbdouMaliq Simone -- Leandro Minuchin -- Giles Omezi -- Andrew Harris -- Pushpa Arabindoo -- Johan Andersson -- Maren Hamack -- Jane Rendell -- Ben Campkin -- Ger Duijzings -- Matthew Gandy -- Sandra Jasper -- Lucrezia Lennert -- Noam Leshem -- Karen E. Till -- Stephen Barber -- Joachim Schlor -- Karolina Kendall-Bush -- Iain Borden -- Mark Tewdwr-Jones -- Rebecca Ross.,
- Gandy, Matthew.
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- Urbanization Social aspects.,
- Urbanization Political aspects.,
- Urbanization Economic aspects.,
- Urban policy.,
- City planning.,
- Cities and towns.,
- Sociology, Urban.,
- Cities,
- Urbanization,
- Urbanisation Aspect social.,
- Urbanisation Aspect politique.,
- Urbanisation Aspect économique.,
- Politique urbaine.,
- Villes.,
- Sociologie urbaine.,
- cities.,
- urbanization.,
- urban sociology.,
- Society.,
- Stadt,
- Kultur,
- Urbanität,
- Stadtentwicklung,
- Sozialökologie
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand(...)
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand(...)
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Tracing modernity : manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture in a deeper sense than discussions of "modernism" and "post modernism" usually offer. Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city.
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From the seventeenth century until today, the "modern" has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which "the modern" was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture in a deeper sense than discussions of "modernism" and "post modernism" usually offer. Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city.
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July 2004, London
July 2004, London
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Monuments Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Architecture Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Monuments Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Architecture Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Architecture Conservation and restoration.,
- Buildings.,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration.,
- Monuments Conservation and restoration.,
- São Tiago Island (Cabo Verde) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- São Tiago (Cap-Vert) Constructions.,
- Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- DVD-Video discs.,
- Video recordings.,
- Optical disks.,
- DVDs.
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Watertown, MA : [Distributed by] Documentary Educational Resources, ©2003.
Watertown, MA : [Distributed by] Documentary Educational Resources, ©2003.
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Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha / realização, Catarina Alves Costa ; produtora, Catarina Mourão.
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Watertown, MA : [Distributed by] Documentary Educational Resources, ©2003.
Watertown, MA : [Distributed by] Documentary Educational Resources, ©2003.
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- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Monuments Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Architecture Conservation and restoration Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Monuments Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Architecture Conservation et restauration Cap-Vert São Tiago.,
- Architecture Conservation and restoration.,
- Buildings.,
- Historic buildings Conservation and restoration.,
- Monuments Conservation and restoration.,
- São Tiago Island (Cabo Verde) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- São Tiago (Cap-Vert) Constructions.,
- Cabo Verde São Tiago Island.,
- DVD-Video discs.,
- Video recordings.,
- Optical disks.,
- DVDs.
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from(...)
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from(...)
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Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—this publication challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, it traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, this title exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity.
Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—this publication challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, it traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, this title exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity.
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February 2010, Chicago
February 2010, Chicago
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
