Instruments Of Culture Layered Representations Of The Alhambra

Author : Paul Germaine McCoy
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1006214798

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Instruments of Culture: Layered Representations of the Alhambra by Paul Germaine McCoy Pdf

Ornament is essential to architecture. The linear categories brought to architecture through the enlightenment have since undermined ornament's spectrum of abstract and visceral qualities. Through a non-western reading of water and ornament, the representations of the Alhambra's past reclaim their essential roles in forming the culture of Granada and the role of ornament in architecture. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book explores how the stories of sites like the Alhambra can enable the renewal of ornament through historic and contemporary tools in architectural representation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Andalusia (Spain)
ISBN : 9299001243

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Cultural Symbiosis in Al-Andalus by Anonim Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231039096

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The different aspects of islamic culture by UNESCO Pdf

This publication examines art, the human sciences, science, philosophy, mysticism, language and literature. For this task, UNESCO has chosen scholars and experts from all over the world who belong to widely divergent cultural and religious backgrounds.--Publisher's description.

Author : Brandon Ruud,Corey Piper,Eugenia Afinoguénova,Mary Elizabeth Boone,Valerie Ann Leeds,Francesc Quilez Corella
Publisher : Other Distribution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Painters
ISBN : 030025296X

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Americans in Spain by Brandon Ruud,Corey Piper,Eugenia Afinoguénova,Mary Elizabeth Boone,Valerie Ann Leeds,Francesc Quilez Corella Pdf

A revealing exploration of Spain's significant impact on American painting in the 19th and early 20th century

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363353

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The Topkapi Scroll by Gülru Necipoğlu Pdf

Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.

Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502331

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Cognitive Disability Aesthetics by Benjamin Fraser Pdf

Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least visible in society (autism, Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia). Moving beyond established literary approaches analyzing prose representations of disability, the book explores how iconic and indexical modes of signification operate in visual texts. Taking on cognitive disability representations in a range of visual media (painting, cinema, and graphic novels), Fraser showcases the value of returning to impairment discourse. Cognitive Disability Aesthetics successfully reconfigures disability studies in the humanities and exposes the chasm that exists between Anglophone disability studies and disability studies in the Hispanic world.

Author : Kirk Varnedoe,Adam Gopnik,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00296450M

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High & Low by Kirk Varnedoe,Adam Gopnik,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Readins in high & low

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781388594

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Édith Piaf by David Looseley Pdf

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston,Lisa Hiwasaki,Irene J. Klaver,Ameyali Ramos Castillo,Veronica Strang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400717749

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Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change by Barbara Rose Johnston,Lisa Hiwasaki,Irene J. Klaver,Ameyali Ramos Castillo,Veronica Strang Pdf

Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans.

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631181776

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The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre Pdf

Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680432

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The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi Pdf

Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

Author : Galland, Pierre,Lisitzin, Katri,Oudaille-Diethardt, Anatole,Young, Christopher
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231001437

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World Heritage in Europe today by Galland, Pierre,Lisitzin, Katri,Oudaille-Diethardt, Anatole,Young, Christopher Pdf

"UNESCO publication, released on 18 February 2016, brings together insights from States Parties, Site Managers and other stakeholders involved in the protection, conservation and management of World Heritage properties in the region. It gives an in-depth look at the current trends and practices while presenting a clear vision for future priorities"--Publisher's description.

Author : William Alves
Publisher : Schirmer G Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015084170011

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Music of the Peoples of the World by William Alves Pdf

World music cultures: an introduction -- Pitch and melody -- Rhythm and loudness -- Texture -- Timbre and musical instruments -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Middle East and North Africa -- Central Asia -- India -- China -- Japan -- Indonesia -- Eastern Europe -- Western Europe -- Latin America -- North America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443594

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The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada between East and West by Anonim Pdf

The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492) was the last Islamic state in al-Andalus. It has long been considered a historical afterthought, even an anomaly, but this impression must be rectified: here we place the kingdom in a new context, within the processes of change that were taking place across all Western Islamic societies in the late Middle Ages. Despite being the last Islamic entity in the Iberian Peninsula, Granada was neither isolated nor exclusively associated with the nearest Islamic lands. The special relationship between Nasrid territory and the surrounding Christian states accelerated historical processes of change. This volume edited by Adela Fábregas examines the Nasrid kingdom through its politics, society, economics, and culture. Contributors: Daniel Baloup, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, María Elena Díez Jorge, Adela Fábregas, Ángel Galán Sánchez, Alberto García Porras, Expiración García Sánchez, Raúl González Arévalo, Pierre Guichard, Antonio Malpica Cuello, Christine Mazzoli-Guintard, Rafael G. Peinado, Antonio Peláez Rovira, José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, María Dolores Rodríguez-Gómez, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Bilal Sarr, Francisco Vidal-Castro, Gerard Wiegers, Amalia Zomeño.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 067404326X

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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.