Author : Osbert Lancaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1087117033
Pillar to Post
Osbert Lancaster
Pillar To Post English Architecture Without Tears
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Pillar to Post, English Architecture Without Tears
Sir Osbert Lancaster
Author : Sir Osbert Lancaster
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013866509
Pillar to Post, English Architecture Without Tears by Sir Osbert Lancaster Pdf
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Making Dystopia
James Stevens Curl
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191068164
Making Dystopia by James Stevens Curl Pdf
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.
Machines for Living
Victoria Rosner
Author : Victoria Rosner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192583819
Machines for Living by Victoria Rosner Pdf
Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.
Writing and Fantasy
Ceri Sullivan,Barbara White
Author : Ceri Sullivan,Barbara White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317883784
Writing and Fantasy by Ceri Sullivan,Barbara White Pdf
Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from the classical period to the twentieth century, each focusing on a local reading of how fantasy acts as a strategy to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias. Aids to the reader include an introduction summarising recent discussions of fantasy, illustrations dealing with visual fantasies, and an annotated bibliography. The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation.
Landscape and Englishness
Robert Burden,Stephan Kohl
Author : Robert Burden,Stephan Kohl
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042021020
Landscape and Englishness by Robert Burden,Stephan Kohl Pdf
In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, and as nostalgia for a unified, organic English culture in Lawrence, Morton and Priestley's travel writing, but also in the Shell Tourist Guides to motoring in rural England; English moorland; the sacred geographies of monuments in Hardy and others; the traditional seaside deconstructed in Martin Parr's photography, and the sea as English Victorian imperial territory and its symbolic breezes in Froude's travel writing. The English landscape is also a paradigm for the description of other places in D. H. Lawrence's travel writing or for the colonial territory itself in Rushdie's writing India, a displacement of other landscapes. This collection of papers examines the assumption that constructions of rural England provide the basis for an understanding of Englishness.
Pinning Down the Past
Mike Corbishley
Author : Mike Corbishley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843839040
Pinning Down the Past by Mike Corbishley Pdf
"In a relatively short period of time the pursuit of archaeology has evolved from an antiquarian interest to a specialised scientific activity. Part of this evolution has always included the interest of the public and archaeologists' efforts to educate them. As each new method and technique is developed, and each new specialism is created, the challenge of making archaeology available as a learning resource grows with it. Today, for example, the issues which surround archaeology and heritage, such as the pressures of tourism on sites, now form part of many formal educational curricula. This book, the first to deal with the subject in such depth, examines the place of education and outreach within the wider archaeological community. Written by one of Britain's leading archaeological educationalists, it charts the sometimes difficult and painful growth and development of "education and archaeology". Packed full of informative and enlightening case studies, from the circus at Colchester to Sutton Hoo and Hadrian's Wall, this work examines exactly how we have reached the point we are at, where that place is and suggests areas for future development. By drawing upon many decades of experience at the front line of archaeological education, the author has produced a key text that will play a major role in the on-going development of the heritage industry"--Publisher's website.
Retro
Elizabeth E. Guffey
Author : Elizabeth E. Guffey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781861894762
Retro by Elizabeth E. Guffey Pdf
Bell-bottoms are in. Bell-bottoms are out. Bell-bottoms are back in again. Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term “retro” has become the buzzword for describing such trends, but what does it mean? Elizabeth Guffey explores here the ambiguous cultural meanings of the term and reveals why some trends just never seem to stay dead. Drawing upon a wealth of original research and entertaining anecdotal material, Guffey unearths the roots of the term “retro” and chronicles its evolving manifestations in culture and art throughout the last century. Whether in art, design, fashion, or music, the idea of retro has often meant a reemergence of styles and sensibilities that evoke touchstones of memory from the not-so-distant past, ranging from the drug-induced surrealism of psychedelic art to the political expression of 1970s afros. Guffey examines how and why the past keeps coming back to haunt us in a variety of forms, from the campy comeback of art nouveau nearly fifty years after its original decline, to the infusion of art deco into the kitschy glamor of pop art, to the recent popularity of 1980s vogue. She also considers how advertisers and the media have employed the power of such cultural nostalgia, using recycled television jingles, familiar old advertising slogans, and famous art to sell a surprising range of products. An engrossing, unprecedented study, Retro reveals the surprising extent to which the past is embedded in the future.
Architectural Record
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCD:31175010500844
Architectural Record by Anonim Pdf
Annual Obituary, 1986
Trish Burgess
Author : Trish Burgess
Publisher : St. James Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558620133
Annual Obituary, 1986 by Trish Burgess Pdf
Published yearly from 1980, this biographical series for libraries is international in scope and contains entries for the most prominent men and women who have died during the year indicated in the title. In addition, each annual volume includes cumulative alphabetical and professions indexes.
Author-title Catalog
University of California, Berkeley. Library
Author : University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117173042
Author-title Catalog by University of California, Berkeley. Library Pdf
The Julian Street Library
Princeton University. Library. Julian Street Library
Author : Princeton University. Library. Julian Street Library
Publisher : New York Bowker 1966.
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Library Catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015023478533
The Julian Street Library by Princeton University. Library. Julian Street Library Pdf
A biography of the nineteenth-century pioneer in the struggle for women's rights.
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UCSC:32106020978836
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962 by University of California, Los Angeles. Library Pdf
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles
University of California (System). Institute of Library Research,University of California, Berkeley
Author : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research,University of California, Berkeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117234828
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research,University of California, Berkeley Pdf
Architecture Series: Bibliography
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015007260824
