Palladio's Rome
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Andrea Palladio published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth,(...)
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Andrea Palladio published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume, Palladio’s guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael’s letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists, and armchair travelers, this book offers insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the Renaissance architectural masters.
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In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the “father of Black American art.” Presenting more than ninety illustrations of Douglas’s works and the commentary of leading critics and historians, this book focuses on(...)
octobre 2007, New Haven/London
Aaron Douglas. African American Modernist
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In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, prompting the philosopher and writer Alain Locke to dub him the “father of Black American art.” Presenting more than ninety illustrations of Douglas’s works and the commentary of leading critics and historians, this book focuses on the artist’s career from the 1920s through the 1940s in relation to American modernism. Its authors argue that Douglas’s bold work opened doors for African American artists in Harlem and beyond, and that it invited a dialogue with modernism that put African American life, labor, and freedom, along with African traditions and motifs, at its center. New information emerges from these pages, reflecting the rich interchange between the visual arts, music, dance, literature, and politics that shaped Douglas’s work and also defined the Harlem Renaissance.
Le livre et l'architecte
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
Théorie de l’architecture
juillet 2011
Le livre et l'architecte
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Dédié aux liens complexes depuis la Renaissance entre l'architecture et le livre, cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur la médiatisation de l'architecture. En rassemblant une quarantaine d'essais rédigés par des spécialistes de différents domaines, ce livre présente le rapport entre l'architecture et les ouvrages, tantôt pratiques, tantôt artistiques, qu'il produit et qu'il utilise.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies.
Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens by David Coffin
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Magnificent buildings, spendid gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies.
Jardins
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This comprehensive reference offers gardens from many periods of history—Islamic, Renaissance, English Landscape, Arts & Crafts, and more—and geographically diverse environments—from a nighttime sculpture garden on the Oregon coast, to a sustainable water garden in the mountains of Vermont, and the Mughal garden at the Indian president’s palace in New Delhi.
Gardens in details: 100 contemporary designs
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This comprehensive reference offers gardens from many periods of history—Islamic, Renaissance, English Landscape, Arts & Crafts, and more—and geographically diverse environments—from a nighttime sculpture garden on the Oregon coast, to a sustainable water garden in the mountains of Vermont, and the Mughal garden at the Indian president’s palace in New Delhi.
Jardins
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The collage technique has undergone a significant renaissance over the past decade or so. This volume looks at works by Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Birgit Brenner, Jörg Herold, Haris Epaminonda, Ceal Floyer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martha Rosler, Ellen Gallagher, Raphael Danke, Meg Cranston, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Dash Snow, Frank Stella and others.
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Manifesto collage: defining collage in the twenty-first century
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The collage technique has undergone a significant renaissance over the past decade or so. This volume looks at works by Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Birgit Brenner, Jörg Herold, Haris Epaminonda, Ceal Floyer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martha Rosler, Ellen Gallagher, Raphael Danke, Meg Cranston, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Dash Snow, Frank Stella and others.
The Lowry : a landmark
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Funding from the Lottery has ushered in a British renaissance in building. Many are renovations or conversions, but Michael Wildford's Lowry is an entirely new. Its practicality and popularity is celebrated in this pocket book through the words of design critic Deyan Sudjic and the photographs of Richard Bryant. This book contains eight removable postcards.
janvier 1900, Salford
The Lowry : a landmark
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Funding from the Lottery has ushered in a British renaissance in building. Many are renovations or conversions, but Michael Wildford's Lowry is an entirely new. Its practicality and popularity is celebrated in this pocket book through the words of design critic Deyan Sudjic and the photographs of Richard Bryant. This book contains eight removable postcards.
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In "Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies", Lyle Massey argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. Combining detailed historical studies with broad theoretical and philosophical investigations, this book challenges basic(...)
Picturing spaces, displacing bodies : anamorphosis in early Modern theories of perspective
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In "Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies", Lyle Massey argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists and theorists interpreted perspective. Combining detailed historical studies with broad theoretical and philosophical investigations, this book challenges basic assumptions about the way early modern artists and theorists represented their relationship to the visible world and how they understood these representations. By analyzing technical feats such as anamorphosis (the perspectival distortion of an object to make it viewable only from a certain angle), drawing machines, and printed diagrams, each chapter highlights the moments when perspective theorists failed to unite a singular, ideal viewpoint with the artist’s or viewer’s viewpoint or were unsuccessful at conjoining fictive and lived space. Showing how these "failures" were subsequently incorporated rather than rejected by perspective theorists, the book presents an important reassessment of the standard view of Renaissance perspective. While many scholars have maintained that perspective rationalized the relationships among optics, space, and painting, "Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies" asserts instead that Renaissance and early modern theorists often revealed a disjunction between geometrical ideals and practical applications. In some cases, they not only identified but also exploited these discrepancies. This discussion of perspective shows that the painter’s geometry did not always conform to the explicitly rational, Cartesian formula that so many have assumed, nor did it historically unfold according to a standard account of scientific development.
Théorie de l’architecture
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This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
novembre 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts
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This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past--which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus--and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences. The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.
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novembre 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Four books on architecture
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Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books(...)
Four books on architecture
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Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books On Architecture), the most successful architectural treatise of the Renaissance and one of the two or three most important books in the literature of architecture. This is the first English translation of Palladio in over 250 years, making it the only translation available in modern English. This new translation by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield contains Palladio's original woodcuts, reproduced in facsimile and positioned correctly, adjacent to the text. The book also contains a glossary that explains technical terms in their original context, a bibliography of recent Palladio research, and an introduction to Palladio and his times.
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octobre 2002
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