Goethe And Palladio

Author : David Lowe,Simon Sharp
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781584204855

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Goethe and Palladio by David Lowe,Simon Sharp Pdf

The poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to wait many years before he was able to travel south to Italy, "the land where the lemon trees bloom." He had gained success in several fields, but he had a sense of being trapped and confined and felt a need for light. Italy would give this to him in a number of ways. Taking as their basis Goethe's Italian Journey, the authors of this fascinating and unusual study explore how Goethe's experience of Palladio's architecture influenced his view of the relationship between art and nature in general and, in particular, helped him form his understanding of metamorphosis, leading to his discovery of the "archetypal plant." In his carefully written account of his travels, Goethe seems to oscillate between experiences of architecture and experiences of nature. In nature, he searched for the "archetypal plant," the essential form whose metamorphosis through time would produce the plant we see in its cycle from seed to fruit. In the art and architecture of antiquity and in Palladio's classical reformulation of it, he tried to understand the purpose and function of artistic creation. Until now, no one has put these two together. David Lowe and Simon Sharp show for the first time how these seemingly unrelated subjects are related--how the living geometries and volumes of harmoniously proportioned buildings, the "great idea" of architecture, can lead to the intuition of similar principles in nature. David Lowe and Simon Sharp have worked together for twenty-one years. One of their first projects was the recreation of Goethe's Italian Journey. They have given numerous workshops and presentations on the subject in the U.S. and U.K., including The British Museum, the German Embassy, and the Edinburgh Festival. This is must-reading for anyone interested in Goethe's ideas on plants and metamorphosis.

Author : Thomas Saine
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130209

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Goethe Yearbook 7 by Thomas Saine Pdf

A publication of the Goethe Society of North America, carrying Goethe criticism (and studies of his contemporaries); extensive book review section. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, which was founded in 1980 to promote the study of Goethe and his contemporaries. Originally conceived as a vehicle for Goethe criticism in Englishduring the Cold War political tensions, when the most prestigious Goethe publication, the Goethe Jahrbuch, was not available to most Western scholars, the Yearbook subsequently gained the respect of the international community, and has published articles, in both English and German, by scholars from around the world; it is unique among other periodicals devoted to the 'Goethezeit' for its extensive book review section.

Author : Simon Richter,Daniel Purdy
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133143

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Goethe Yearbook 15 by Simon Richter,Daniel Purdy Pdf

New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800.

Author : William Douglas Robson-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521233217

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The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts by William Douglas Robson-Scott Pdf

This 1981 book tells of the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520039955

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Goethe on Art by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Malte Ebach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811967412

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Goethe in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Malte Ebach Pdf

Inside you lies a precise scientific instrument – the ability to observe Nature and recall past experiences. You were born with it and you use it every day. You can be trained to use it more effectively to, for example, compare and discover new species of organisms or new minerals. Our senses do have limitations, and we often use microscopes, telescopes and other tools to aid our observation. However, we benefit from knowing their limitations and the impact they have on our ability to combine our observations and our experience to make decisions. Once these tools replace our direct observation and our experience we ourselves become disconnected from Nature. Scientific practice turns into well-meant opinions out-weighing empirical evidence. This is happening now in the current age of big data and artificial intelligence. The author calls this the Modern Hubris and it is slowly corroding science. To combat the Modern Hubris and to reconnect with Nature, scientists need to change the way they practise observation. To do so may require the scientist to transform themself. One person who successfully did this was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. His journey demonstrates how one man attempted to take on the Modern Hubris by transforming his life and how he saw Nature. Following Goethe’s transformation teaches us how we can also reconnect ourselves with Nature and Natural science.

Author : Jeremy Adler
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789142532

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Jeremy Adler Pdf

This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe’s major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust, Jeremy Adler also provides many original readings of Goethe’s poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe’s work, Adler analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Uniquely, Adler also shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in literature, science, philosophy, law, and many other fields became important for a wide range of later scientists and thinkers. Among the figures he influenced were Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns—a maker of modernity.

Author : Daniel Purdy
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801460050

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On the Ruins of Babel by Daniel Purdy Pdf

The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual. In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum. Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.

Author : Simon Richter,Richard A. Block
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135674

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Goethe's Ghosts by Simon Richter,Richard A. Block Pdf

Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that 'Goethe's ghosts' - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane Brown, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history of the book, semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood studies, and eco-criticism.

Author : Peter Bosselmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520918266

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Representation of Places by Peter Bosselmann Pdf

People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how those changes will affect our lives. New modes of imaging technology—from two-dimensional maps, charts, and diagrams to computer models—allow professionals to explain their designs more clearly than ever before. Although architects and planners know how to read these representations, few outside the profession can interpret them, let alone understand what it would be like to walk along the streets such representations describe. Yet decisions on what gets built are significantly influenced by these very representations. A portion of Bosselmann's book is based on innovative experiments conducted at the University of California, Berkeley's Visual Simulation Laboratory. In a section titled "The City in the Laboratory," he discusses how visual simulation was applied to projects in New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto. The concerns that Bosselmann addresses have an impact on large segments of society, and lay readers as well as professionals will find much that is useful in his timely, accessibly written book.

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0192829815

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Goethe by Nicholas Boyle Pdf

The author of Faust, the best-selling sentimental novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, of exquisite lyric poetry (set to music by Schubert and Mozart), and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, poems, and treatises, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also excelled as an administrator in thecabinet of Carl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Considered by Nietzsche to have been 'not just a good and great man, but an entire culture', Goethe was as vital a part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German social and political life, as he was its cultural nucleus. However, as this perceptive biography shows, the originality ofhis art lay in his complex distance from his times.

Author : Kim Williams,Giovanni Giaconi,Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568983967

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The Villas of Palladio by Kim Williams,Giovanni Giaconi,Andrea Palladio Pdf

The Renaissance architect and builder Andrea Palladio is arguable the most influential architect in Western history, and certainly the most beloved. His sixteenth-century villas in the Italian Veneto revolutionized the course of architecture, and the principles on which he based his work are still felt today. For the past several years, Italian watercolorist Giovanni Giaconi has devoted his talents to creating exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all thirty-two of Palladio's villas. Each drawing captures the timeless beauty of Palladian architecture and provides a detailed record of these masterpieces. Together with brief descriptions of each villa, samples of Giaconi's preparatory sketches, and where available, Palladio's own woodcuts, these works of art leave a deep impression of Palladio's oeuvre and give the reader an opportunity to compare the original designs with the actual buildings and their present state of conservation. This beautiful book is a must-have and the perfect gift for architects, travelers, and lovers of Italy and Palladio's architecture.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199689255

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Goethe by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and literary writer in a variety of genres.

Author : Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139573

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Goethe Yearbook 23 by Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on Goethe and visual culture.

Author : Harald Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3258539

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Goethe, Palladio und England by Harald Keller Pdf