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Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Régime

Author : Bernd H. Dams,Andrew Zega
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015038435007

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Pleasure Pavilions and Follies in the Gardens of the Ancien Régime by Bernd H. Dams,Andrew Zega Pdf

Many of these buildings have been destroyed or severely altered and the only records that survive are the drawings, engravings, architectural plans, and, more rarely, paintings of the period.

Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

Author : Miles David Samson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317119326

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Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism by Miles David Samson Pdf

The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism’s 'forbidden' elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of 'pavilionizing' mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy, John Johansen, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone, and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants, gas stations, furniture and car showrooms, branch banks, and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type, 'essential' structure, and primal 'humanistic' aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment, and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.

Vaux and Versailles

Author : Claire Goldstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812240588

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Goldstein shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style. She retraces the roots of Versailles in Fouquet's short-lived experiment, and destabilises any easy understanding of the court of the Sun King as the origin of French national style.

'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876

Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0754664228

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'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876 by Nebahat Avcioglu Pdf

Devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in this study Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected constructions, and links them to notions of self-representation and politics.

Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258150

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Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.

"Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728?876 "

Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351538350

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"Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728?876 " by Nebahat Avcioglu Pdf

In this first full-length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected images, designs and constructions; and links Western interest in the Ottoman Empire to notions of self-representation and national politics. In investigating why and to what effect Europeans turned to the Turk for inspiration, Avcioglu provides a far-reaching cultural reinterpretation of art and architecture in this period. Presented as a series of case studies focusing on three specific building types?kiosks, mosques, and baths?chosen on the basis that each represents the first full-fledged manifestations of their respective genres to be constructed in Western Europe, the study delves into the cultural politics of architectural forms and styles. The author argues that the appropriation of those building types was neither accidental, nor did it merely reflect European domination of another culture. The process was essentially dialectical, and contributed to transculturation in both the West and the East.

Orientalism in Early Modern France

Author : Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Publisher : Berg
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845203740

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Orientalism in Early Modern France by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe Pdf

Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and the Americas. The consumption of silk, cotton cloth, spices, coffee, tea, china, gems, flowers and other luxury goods transformed daily life and gave rise to a new discourse about the 'Orient' which in turn shaped ideas about economy and politics, specifically absolutism and the monarchy. An original account of the ancient regime, this book highlights France's use of the exotic and analyzes French discourse about Islam and the 'Orient'.

Capturing Nature

Author : Patsy Pittman Light
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781585446100

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Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez’s works have been included on the National Register of Historic Places. Patsy Pittman Light has spent a decade documenting the trabajo rústico (“rustic work”) of Rodríguez, along with its antecedents in Europe and Mexico, and the subsequent work of those Rodríguez trained in San Antonio. Rodríguez’s unique and unusual art will fascinate those new to it and delight those to whom it is familiar. San Antonio sites such as the bus stop on Broadway, the faux bois bridge in Brackenridge Park, and the “rocks” on the Miraflores Gate at the San Antonio Museum of Art, along with the Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock and Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, are just a few of the locations covered in this volume celebrating the life and work of a Latino artisan. Students and devotees of Texas and Southwestern art will welcome this book and its long-overdue appreciation of this artist. Additionally, this book will commend itself to those interested in Latino studies, art history, and folklore.

Unnatural Horizons

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 1568981392

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Unnatural Horizons presents a selective history of the last five centuries of landscape architecture at the intersection of poetics and science, rhetoric and technology, and philosophy and politics. It investigates the relations between garden aesthetics and metaphysics, discussing issues similar to those raised by Weiss's critically acclaimed Mirrors of Infinity. The Western garden has always served as a setting for music, dance, theater, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the minor arts of meditative contemplation and erotic seduction. The history of landscape architecture is therefore inextricable from the histories of the other arts, and must be studied from an interdisciplinary and polycultural point of view. Some of the topics included in this book are the influence of neo-Platonic philosophy on the Italian Renaissance garden, erotic fantasies and the 18th-century libertine garden, the contrast between Thoreau's romantic notion of virgin nature and changes in perception due to increasing speed and mechanization, and the limits of landscape architecture as art form in 20th-century gardens.

The Garden

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Botany
ISBN : CORNELL:31924085775652

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Book Review Digest

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2712 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261883

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House & Garden

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063054088

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The Temple of Night at Schönau

Author : John A. Rice
Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030220190

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The Temple of Night at Schönau by John A. Rice Pdf

Between 1796 and 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman and manager of Vienna's court theaters, transformed his estate at Sch nau into an English-style landscape park. Among several buildings with which he embellished his garden, the most remarkable and celebrated was the Temple of Night, a domed rotunda accessible only through a meandering rockwork grotto that led visitors to believe that their destination lay somewhere deep underground. A life-size statue of the goddess Night on a chariot pulled by two horses presided over the Temple, while from the dome, which depicted the night sky, came the sounds of a mechanical musical instrument that visitors likened to music of the spheres. Only the ruins of the Temple of Night survive, and it has received little scholarly attention. This book brings it back to life by assembling the many descriptions of it by early nineteenth-century eyewitnesses. Placing the Temple within the context of the eighteenth-century English landscape park and of Viennese culture in the fascinating period of transition between Enlightenment and Biedermeier, Rice's book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of garden design, architecture, theater, and music.

Library Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Libraries
ISBN : IND:30000046261222

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The Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175019709735

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