Mediterranean Modernism

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn,Renée M. Silverman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137586568

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Mediterranean Modernism by Adam J. Goldwyn,Renée M. Silverman Pdf

This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.

Author : Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135250270

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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean by Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino Pdf

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Author : JanK. Birksted
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558068

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Modernism and the Mediterranean by JanK. Birksted Pdf

Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jos?uis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Mir?labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.

Author : Salvatore Pappalardo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501369988

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Modernism in Trieste by Salvatore Pappalardo Pdf

When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary imagination. This book examines the idea of Europe in the modernist literature of primarily Robert Musil, Italo Svevo, and James Joyce (but also of Theodor Däubler and Srecko Kosovel), all authors who had a deep connection with the port city of Trieste. Writing after World War I, when the contested city joined Italy, these authors resisted the easy nostalgia of the postwar period, radically reimagining the origins of Europe in the Mediterranean culture of the Phoenicians, contrasting a 19th-century nationalist discourse that saw Europe as the heir of a Greek and Roman legacy. These writers saw the Adriatic city, a cosmopolitan bazaar under the Habsburg Empire, as a social laboratory of European integration. Modernism in Trieste seeks to fill a critical gap in the extant scholarship, securing the literary history of Trieste within the context of current research on Habsburg and Austrian literature.

Author : JanK. Birksted
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558075

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Modernism and the Mediterranean by JanK. Birksted Pdf

Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, Jos?uis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Mir?labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.

Author : Domenico Pietropaolo,Luca Somigli,Dario Brancato
Publisher : Legas Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073904487

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Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World by Domenico Pietropaolo,Luca Somigli,Dario Brancato Pdf

Author : Richard Gillespie,Frédéric Volpi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317446330

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Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics by Richard Gillespie,Frédéric Volpi Pdf

The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the same time an interface between Europe, Africa and Asia. This brings complex challenges in terms of achieving peace and stability. Recently it has received intense international attention through the internal destructiveness and spill-over from conflicts, primarily those waged in Libya, Syria and, more remotely, Iraq. This Handbook provides an overview of the political processes that shape the Mediterranean region in the contemporary context. It explores the issues of crucial importance to Mediterranean dynamics through a series of analytical sections that guide the reader towards a comprehensive understanding of the main regional interactions and trends. The Handbook explores: the complex historical formation of the contemporary Mediterranean geopolitical perspectives issues around peace and conflict the political economy of the region the role of non-state actors and social movements societal and cultural trends. The wide range of contributions from many of the leading academic experts on the region offers not only insights into the debates and processes that structure each theme, but also key pointers for a more general understanding of how distinct political, economic, social and cultural dynamics interact across the region. It will therefore be a key resource for policy-makers and students and scholars of Mediterranean politics and international relations.

Author : Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs,Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd,Salar Salah Muhy Al-Din,Najmaldin Hussein,Femi Emmanuel Arenibafo,Mojdeh Nikoofam,Zhino Hariry,Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri,Hossein Sadri
Publisher : Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. Vol.1, No.1, 2017 by Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs,Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd,Salar Salah Muhy Al-Din,Najmaldin Hussein,Femi Emmanuel Arenibafo,Mojdeh Nikoofam,Zhino Hariry,Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri,Hossein Sadri Pdf

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017) Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. Vol.1, No.1, 2017 Number of published articles in this issue: 8 articles Number of authors contributed to this issue: 9 authors from 4 Countries This issue contains the following articles: -Sustainability in Historic Urban Environments: Effect of gentrification in the process of sustainable urban revitalization Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd, Dr. https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)1-9 -The influence of Mediterranean modernist movement of architecture in Lefkosa: The first and early second half of 20th century Salar Salah Muhy Al-Din, Ph.D. Candidate https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)10-23 -Adaptive Reuse of the Industrial Building: A case of Energy Museum in Sanatistanbul, Turkey Najmaldin Hussein, MA. https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)24-34 -The Transformation of Aesthetics in Architecture from Traditional to Modern Architecture: A case study of the Yoruba (southwestern) region of Nigeria Femi Emmanuel Arenibafo, MA. https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)35-44 -In Pursuit of Sustainable Strategic Long-term Planning Throughout Meta-postmodernism as New Perspective of Stylistic Design Mojdeh Nikoofam, Ph.D. Candidate, Abdollah Mobaraki, Ph.D. Candidate https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)45-55 -The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil Zhino Hariry, MA. https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)56-66 -The Scale of Public Space: Taksim Square in Istanbul Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri, Dr. https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)67-75 -Urban Cages and Domesticated Humans https://doi.org/10.25034/1761.1(1)76-84

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004335493

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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines the ways in which Ancient Greek and Roman culture were appropriated by a global set of authors from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Author : Leen Meganck,Linda Van Santvoort,Jan De Maeyer,Jan de Meyer
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789058679185

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Regionalism and Modernity by Leen Meganck,Linda Van Santvoort,Jan De Maeyer,Jan de Meyer Pdf

The complex and shifting relation between regionalism and modernity With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and ‘fitness of purpose', the late 19th and early 20th century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected and even labeled ‘backward'. The origins of this drastic change of perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a positive form gradually turned into a ‘closed' form of regionalism, a folding back on one's own region as a defence mechanism in an economically and politically turbulent decade.

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009451475

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

Author : Ana Isabel Queiroz,Simon Pooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319749860

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Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean by Ana Isabel Queiroz,Simon Pooley Pdf

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners. In the last decades, new findings, perspectives and practices have revealed the multifaceted challenges of preventing new introductions and dealing with those invasive species that harm natural ecosystems, economy and human welfare. This book brings together environmental historians and natural scientists to share their studies and experiences on the human dimensions of biological invasions from the ancient past to the current challenges. The collection of papers focuses on the Mediterranean region and deals with aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems on the mainland and islands, ranging from marine and freshwater environments to coastal marshlands and forests. A wide diversity of animals and plants are featured, from marine fishes to marine and freshwater crustaceans, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals, to grasses, shrubs and trees. This book is a contribution to the scientific debate on how to deal with the historical dimensions of biological invasions, fostering dialogue between cultural and ecological explanations of environmental change, to inform environmental policy and management. It has been organized in three sections: the first is the editors’ introduction, in which they review the existing literature and highlight relevant concepts and ideas; the second is about alien species in the Mediterranean region; the third includes cases from other Mediterranean-type regions.

Author : Lynn Kozak,Miranda Hickman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350040977

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The Classics in Modernist Translation by Lynn Kozak,Miranda Hickman Pdf

This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight 'translation,' a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studies would term 'adaptation', 'refiguration' and 'intervention.' As the volume's essays reveal, modernist 'translations' of Classical texts crucially informed the innovations of many modernists and often themselves constituted modernist literary projects. Thus the volume responds to gaps in both Classical reception and Modernist studies: essays treat a comparatively understudied area in Classical reception by reviving work in a subfield of Modernist studies relatively inactive in recent decades but enjoying renewed attention through the recent work of contributors to this volume. The volume's essays address work significantly informed by Classical materials, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, Ovid, and Propertius, and approach a range of modernist writers: Pound and H.D., among the modernists best known for work engaging the Classics, as well as Cummings, Eliot, Joyce, Laura Riding, and Yeats.

Author : Cathy Gere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226289557

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere Pdf

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.

Author : Kristin Roth-Ey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350302792

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Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular by Kristin Roth-Ey Pdf

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces. These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them. Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground.