The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a(...)
The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a critical moment in urban and architectural history. "The Charnley House" is the first authoritative publication on the building, which has long been discussed in surveys but never before examined in detail. In this collection of original essays, six well-known architectural historians illuminate various aspects of the house, both inside and out, as they consider its remarkable formal and spatial qualities, its historical significance in the development of Chicago's elite residential neighborhood, and its place in the context of American domestic architecture. Equally important, the contributors tackle the knotty, decades-old issue concerning the building's designer. While many have ascribed the scheme to Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan's chief assistant at the time, this book sheds new light on how the house relates significantly to the work of both master and apprentice. The continuing debate over the house's "authorship" highlights the importance of the Charnley house in the history of modern architecture as the seminal work of residential design in the United States. These thoroughly researched interpretations, supplemented by an abundance of never before published illustrations, analyze this house of distinction with the care and detail it deserves. Beautifully restored in late 1980s, the Charnley house now has a book worthy of it.
Architecture, monographies
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One important monument of Byzantine civilization, the cathedral of old Constantinople has been a puzzle and a fascination for modern scholarship. Nelson's unraveling of the history of this interest exhibits the minds of scholars as much as the mind of Byzantium. The authors brings to his study a wide-ranging erudition and illustrates it with a selection of new or rarely(...)
Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950 : Holy Wisdom modern monument
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One important monument of Byzantine civilization, the cathedral of old Constantinople has been a puzzle and a fascination for modern scholarship. Nelson's unraveling of the history of this interest exhibits the minds of scholars as much as the mind of Byzantium. The authors brings to his study a wide-ranging erudition and illustrates it with a selection of new or rarely seen photographs and engravings.
Arch Moyen-Orient
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In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, and effects of Jesuit art and architecture, this original and sophisticated study also(...)
Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque
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In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, and effects of Jesuit art and architecture, this original and sophisticated study also evaluates how the term "propaganda" functions in art history, distinguishes it from rhetoric, and proposes a precise use of the term for the visual arts for the first time. Levy begins by looking at Nazi architecture as a gateway to the emotional and ethical issues raised by the term "propaganda." Jesuit art once stirred similar passions, as she shows in a discussion of the controversial nineteenth-century rubric the "Jesuit Style." She then considers three central aspects of Jesuit art as essential components of propaganda: authorship, message, and diffusion. Levy tests her theoretical formulations against a broad range of documents and works of art, including the Chapel of St. Ignatius and other major works in Rome by Andrea Pozzo as well as chapels in Central Europe and Poland. Innovative in bringing a broad range of social and critical theory to bear on Baroque art and architecture in Europe and beyond, Levy's work highlights the subject-forming capacity of early modern Catholic art and architecture while establishing "propaganda" as a productive term for art history.
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Venice : the tourist maze
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of(...)
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Venice : the tourist maze
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.
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Dans une démarche sans antécédents, c'est précisément dans le miroir de l'urbanisme et du cadre bâti que l'auteur interroge l'image de la présence française en Algérie. Il y découvre la profondeur de son ambivalence et y retrouve l'irréductible antagonisme, né avec la conquête, qui a opposé, chez les colonisateurs, les partisans d'une authentique association aux tenants(...)
Urbanisme et colonisation : présence françaoise en Algérie
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Dans une démarche sans antécédents, c'est précisément dans le miroir de l'urbanisme et du cadre bâti que l'auteur interroge l'image de la présence française en Algérie. Il y découvre la profondeur de son ambivalence et y retrouve l'irréductible antagonisme, né avec la conquête, qui a opposé, chez les colonisateurs, les partisans d'une authentique association aux tenants d'une assimilation pure et dure. Au gré d'un itinéraire sinueux qui conduit de Bugeaud à Lyautey, de Napoléon III à Jules Ferry, des disciples de Charles Fourier à Le Corbusier, Delouvrier ou Niemeyer, surprises et paradoxes attendent le lecteur.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The(...)
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Guy Debord and the situationist international
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This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI’s profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957–1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord and the Situationist International supplements both sections. It reprints important, hard to find essays by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Jonathan Crary, Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus, and Tom McDonough and doubles the number of translations of primary texts, which now encompass a broader and more representative range of the SI’s writings on culture and language. In a field still dominated by hagiography, the critical texts were selected for their willingness to confront critically the history and legacy of the SI. They examine the group within the broader framework of the historical and neo-avant-gardes and, beyond that, the postwar world in general. The translations trace the SI’s reflections on the legacy of the avant-garde in art and architecture, particularly on the linguistic and spatial significance of montage aesthetics. Many of the translated works are by Guy Debord (1932–1994), the impresario of the SI, especially known for his book "The Society of the Spectacle".
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"One Place after Another" offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public(...)
One place after another : site-specific art and locational identity
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"One Place after Another" offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, René¥ Green, Suzanne Lacy, Iñ©§¯ Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.
Théorie de l’art
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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its(...)
Chronophobia : on time in the art of the 1960's
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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology. Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in postwar culture. The accompanying rapid technological transformations, including the advent of computers and automation processes, produced for many an acute sense of historical unknowing; the seemingly accelerated pace of life began to outstrip any attempts to make sense of the present. Lee sees the attitude of 1960s art to time as a historical prelude to our current fixation on time and speed within digital culture. Reflecting upon the 1960s cultural anxiety about temporality, she argues, helps us historicize our current relation to technology and time.
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Les 100 maisons présentées dans cet ouvrage proposent non seulement un large panorama des styles de construction et de décoration intérieure, mais racontent également l'histoire de 100 architectes et de leurs quatre murs : une vision inédite de l'histoire de l'architecture européenne. Lorsque Gennaro Postiglione a lancé son projet d'exposition, en collaboration avec de(...)
Cent maisons pour cent architectes
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Les 100 maisons présentées dans cet ouvrage proposent non seulement un large panorama des styles de construction et de décoration intérieure, mais racontent également l'histoire de 100 architectes et de leurs quatre murs : une vision inédite de l'histoire de l'architecture européenne. Lorsque Gennaro Postiglione a lancé son projet d'exposition, en collaboration avec de nombreuses institutions européennes, il ne s'est pas contenté d'y inscrire des vedettes aux noms célèbres. Comme cet ouvrage le démontre, les réalisations d'architectes de moindre renommée ont elles aussi largement contribué à l'émergence d'idées et de styles innovants dans toute l'Europe.
Architecture résidentielle
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A very quirky book in which graphic designer/typographer Piet Schreuders searches out public lettering in need of improvement. He photgraphs the existing signage, then presents his "improved" alternative. Beautifully designed and printed, and a delight to peruse for the clever subtley of Schreuders' perceptions.
janvier 1900, Amsterdam
Piet Schreuders : Voor verbetering vatbaar
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A very quirky book in which graphic designer/typographer Piet Schreuders searches out public lettering in need of improvement. He photgraphs the existing signage, then presents his "improved" alternative. Beautifully designed and printed, and a delight to peruse for the clever subtley of Schreuders' perceptions.