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Shanghai Bund Architecture
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The Bund was once a mud land criss-crossed with farm fields, wild reeds, and a rooster fighting yard. Then its shape transformed dramatically looking similar to a European City, thus the mud Bund became the modern and attractive gold Bund. The stories of the Bund are about how the mud land turned into a billion-dollar skyline. The book records the past and present(...)
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The Bund was once a mud land criss-crossed with farm fields, wild reeds, and a rooster fighting yard. Then its shape transformed dramatically looking similar to a European City, thus the mud Bund became the modern and attractive gold Bund. The stories of the Bund are about how the mud land turned into a billion-dollar skyline. The book records the past and present(...)
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Shanghai Bund Architecture
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The Bund was once a mud land criss-crossed with farm fields, wild reeds, and a rooster fighting yard. Then its shape transformed dramatically looking similar to a European City, thus the mud Bund became the modern and attractive gold Bund. The stories of the Bund are about how the mud land turned into a billion-dollar skyline. The book records the past and present details of 30 buildings on the Bund north of Yan 'an East Road, and shares hundreds of architectural photos and historical pictures. The 30 buildings listed in the book are accompanied by the latest tourist tips, as well as colorful architectural maps of the Bund and data analysis charts. The great changes in Shanghai can be seen more clearly from the authors' unique perspective.
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The Bund was once a mud land criss-crossed with farm fields, wild reeds, and a rooster fighting yard. Then its shape transformed dramatically looking similar to a European City, thus the mud Bund became the modern and attractive gold Bund. The stories of the Bund are about how the mud land turned into a billion-dollar skyline. The book records the past and present details of 30 buildings on the Bund north of Yan 'an East Road, and shares hundreds of architectural photos and historical pictures. The 30 buildings listed in the book are accompanied by the latest tourist tips, as well as colorful architectural maps of the Bund and data analysis charts. The great changes in Shanghai can be seen more clearly from the authors' unique perspective.
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mars 2025
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Shanghai Shikumen: Citywalk
Shanghai Shikumen: Citywalk
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The book shows a unique residential kind of building in Shanghai called Shikumen and records its architectural style and the use of space. A travel guide to 40 of Shanghai's most representative Shikumen lanes is also provided and is compared with the Shanghai block map in the 1940s of the 20th century. The book also collects 120 pictures of the architecture and life of(...)
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The book shows a unique residential kind of building in Shanghai called Shikumen and records its architectural style and the use of space. A travel guide to 40 of Shanghai's most representative Shikumen lanes is also provided and is compared with the Shanghai block map in the 1940s of the 20th century. The book also collects 120 pictures of the architecture and life of(...)
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Shanghai Shikumen: Citywalk
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The book shows a unique residential kind of building in Shanghai called Shikumen and records its architectural style and the use of space. A travel guide to 40 of Shanghai's most representative Shikumen lanes is also provided and is compared with the Shanghai block map in the 1940s of the 20th century. The book also collects 120 pictures of the architecture and life of Shikumen Lilong, and the author has compiled 400 Shikumen Lilong directories based on his accumulation of years of visiting Shikumen, which can become a guide for readers to stroll through Shikumen Lilong houses and experience Shikumen City Life.
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The book shows a unique residential kind of building in Shanghai called Shikumen and records its architectural style and the use of space. A travel guide to 40 of Shanghai's most representative Shikumen lanes is also provided and is compared with the Shanghai block map in the 1940s of the 20th century. The book also collects 120 pictures of the architecture and life of Shikumen Lilong, and the author has compiled 400 Shikumen Lilong directories based on his accumulation of years of visiting Shikumen, which can become a guide for readers to stroll through Shikumen Lilong houses and experience Shikumen City Life.
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging(...)
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging(...)
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Mao's new world: Political culture in the early People's Republic
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet influence, but the nationalistic Chinese Communists sought an independent road of nation building; for example, they decided that the reconstructed Tiananmen Square should surpass Red Square in size and significance, against the advice of Soviet experts sent from Moscow.
Mao's new world: Political culture in the early People's Republic
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet influence, but the nationalistic Chinese Communists sought an independent road of nation building; for example, they decided that the reconstructed Tiananmen Square should surpass Red Square in size and significance, against the advice of Soviet experts sent from Moscow.
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février 2017
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Modernism in late-Mao China
Modernism in late-Mao China
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This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for(...)
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This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for(...)
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Modernism in late-Mao China
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This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China’s foreign aid projects overseas. The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China’s political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical emphasis on ideological struggle to a dynamic balance between leftist ideology and pragmatic concerns. In this context, China’s relations with the West quickly improved, culminating with American president Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. The increasing foreign affairs brought new opportunities to Chinese architects who referenced both Western modernism and Chinese architectural traditions to create a new version of Chinese modernism. The book brings dimensions of form, politics and knowledge to the analysis of architecture, to construct an understanding of architectural design as an aesthetic, political and intellectual practice.
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This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China’s foreign aid projects overseas. The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China’s political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical emphasis on ideological struggle to a dynamic balance between leftist ideology and pragmatic concerns. In this context, China’s relations with the West quickly improved, culminating with American president Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. The increasing foreign affairs brought new opportunities to Chinese architects who referenced both Western modernism and Chinese architectural traditions to create a new version of Chinese modernism. The book brings dimensions of form, politics and knowledge to the analysis of architecture, to construct an understanding of architectural design as an aesthetic, political and intellectual practice.
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décembre 2025
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The great transformation
The great transformation
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In(...)
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In(...)
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The great transformation
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China’s gradual opening to the world—the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people’s rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted.
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China’s gradual opening to the world—the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people’s rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted.
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novembre 2025
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Au cours des trois dernières décennies, le numérique s’est irrémédiablement immiscé dans les objets du quotidien et les pratiques socioculturelles. Il s’éprouve notamment à travers l’utilisation des plateformes, des moteurs de recherche et de la téléphonie mobile. Pour qualifier ce déploiement technique et économique, la notion de «?service?» est continuellement(...)
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Au cours des trois dernières décennies, le numérique s’est irrémédiablement immiscé dans les objets du quotidien et les pratiques socioculturelles. Il s’éprouve notamment à travers l’utilisation des plateformes, des moteurs de recherche et de la téléphonie mobile. Pour qualifier ce déploiement technique et économique, la notion de «?service?» est continuellement(...)
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Numérique. La tentation du service
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Au cours des trois dernières décennies, le numérique s’est irrémédiablement immiscé dans les objets du quotidien et les pratiques socioculturelles. Il s’éprouve notamment à travers l’utilisation des plateformes, des moteurs de recherche et de la téléphonie mobile. Pour qualifier ce déploiement technique et économique, la notion de «?service?» est continuellement convoquée. Mais comment caractériser le pouvoir de transformation du numérique sur notre manière d’être au monde?? Comment l’idée, qui fut celle du design moderne, de chercher à mettre des formes au monde, peut-elle s’en accommoder?? En revenant notamment sur le travail de Walter Gropius et Louis Sullivan, Pierre-Damien Huyghe montre qu’il nous faut désormais affronter un risque nouveau?: celui de la perversité d’objets à double sens, ou à double fonction.
Numérique. La tentation du service
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Au cours des trois dernières décennies, le numérique s’est irrémédiablement immiscé dans les objets du quotidien et les pratiques socioculturelles. Il s’éprouve notamment à travers l’utilisation des plateformes, des moteurs de recherche et de la téléphonie mobile. Pour qualifier ce déploiement technique et économique, la notion de «?service?» est continuellement convoquée. Mais comment caractériser le pouvoir de transformation du numérique sur notre manière d’être au monde?? Comment l’idée, qui fut celle du design moderne, de chercher à mettre des formes au monde, peut-elle s’en accommoder?? En revenant notamment sur le travail de Walter Gropius et Louis Sullivan, Pierre-Damien Huyghe montre qu’il nous faut désormais affronter un risque nouveau?: celui de la perversité d’objets à double sens, ou à double fonction.
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mai 2022
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La vie algorithmique
La vie algorithmique
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des(...)
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des(...)
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La vie algorithmique
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des existences et des sociétés. Ce livre, qui examine la quantification et la marchandisation intégrales de la vie, est le premier volet d’une trilogie devenue la référence sur la compréhension de la nouvelle condition humaine à l’ère numérique. Suivront « La Silicolonisation du monde » et « L’Intelligence artificielle ou l’enjeu du siècle ».
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des existences et des sociétés. Ce livre, qui examine la quantification et la marchandisation intégrales de la vie, est le premier volet d’une trilogie devenue la référence sur la compréhension de la nouvelle condition humaine à l’ère numérique. Suivront « La Silicolonisation du monde » et « L’Intelligence artificielle ou l’enjeu du siècle ».
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février 2026
février 2026
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L'envers de la tech
L'envers de la tech
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils(...)
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils(...)
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils arrosent, l'électricité qu'ils amassent puis déchargent dans l'air. » . À l'heure de l'explosion de l'intelligence artificielle, les paradoxes environnementaux et sociétaux du numérique sont de plus en plus visibles : là où les géants de la tech assurent oeuvrer pour le bien commun, les effets de leurs activités sur la planète, les écosystèmes, mais aussi sur les liens sociaux et la démocratie elle-même montrent qu'ils amplifient en réalité les risques - naturels autant que politiques - auxquels nous sommes confronté es aujourd'hui.
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils arrosent, l'électricité qu'ils amassent puis déchargent dans l'air. » . À l'heure de l'explosion de l'intelligence artificielle, les paradoxes environnementaux et sociétaux du numérique sont de plus en plus visibles : là où les géants de la tech assurent oeuvrer pour le bien commun, les effets de leurs activités sur la planète, les écosystèmes, mais aussi sur les liens sociaux et la démocratie elle-même montrent qu'ils amplifient en réalité les risques - naturels autant que politiques - auxquels nous sommes confronté es aujourd'hui.
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décembre 2025
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Documenting Gehry's work from 1988 to the present, this book traces his evolution from a Southern California architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials to an international figure who has redefined modernism with his sculpturally expressionistic work.
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Documenting Gehry's work from 1988 to the present, this book traces his evolution from a Southern California architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials to an international figure who has redefined modernism with his sculpturally expressionistic work.
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décembre 2002, New York
décembre 2002, New York
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Gehry talks : architecture + process
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Documenting Gehry's work from 1988 to the present, this book traces his evolution from a Southern California architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials to an international figure who has redefined modernism with his sculpturally expressionistic work.
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Documenting Gehry's work from 1988 to the present, this book traces his evolution from a Southern California architect known for his idiosyncratic use of materials to an international figure who has redefined modernism with his sculpturally expressionistic work.
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décembre 2002, New York
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming(...)
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming(...)
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janvier 2004, Princeton
janvier 2004, Princeton
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Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly "topographic" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission: to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering the region to armchair travelers as a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie. Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought, Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics.
Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly "topographic" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission: to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering the region to armchair travelers as a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie. Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought, Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics.
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janvier 2004, Princeton
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