The Challenge Of Emulation In Art And Architecture

Author : David Mayernik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317039242

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The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture by David Mayernik Pdf

Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.

Author : Nir Haim Buras
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674919242

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The Art of Classic Planning by Nir Haim Buras Pdf

"An accomplished architect and urbanist goes back to the roots of what makes cities attractive and livable, demonstrating how we can restore function and beauty to our urban spaces for the long term. Nearly everything we treasure in the worldÕs most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Cities like Prague, Paris, and Lisbon draw millions of visitors from around the world because of their exquisite architecture, walkable neighborhoods, and human scale. Yet a great deal of the knowledge and practice behind successful city planning has been abandoned over the last hundred yearsÑnot because of traffic, population growth, or other practical hurdles, but because of ill-considered theories emerging from Modernism and reactions to it. The errors of urban design over the last century are too great not to question. The solutions being offered todayÑsustainability, walkability, smart and green technologiesÑhint at what has been lost and what may be regained, but they remain piecemeal and superficial. In The Art of Classic Planning, architect and planner Nir Haim Buras documents and extends the time-tested and holistic practices that held sway before the reign of Modernism. With hundreds of full-color illustrations and photographs that will captivate architects, planners, administrators, and developers, The Art of Classic Planning restores and revitalizes the foundations of urban planning. Inspired by venerable cities like Kyoto, Vienna, and Venice, and by the great successes of LÕEnfantÕs Washington, HaussmannÕs Paris, and BurnhamÕs Chicago, Buras combines theory and a host of examples to arrive at clear guidelines for best practices in classic planning for todayÕs world. The Art of Classic Planning celebrates the enduring principles of urban design and invites us to return to building beautiful cities."

Author : Carroll William Westfall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317178989

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Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order by Carroll William Westfall Pdf

This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative traces two models for the practice of architecture. One follows the ancient model in which the architect renders his service to serve the interests of others; it survives and is dominant in modernism. The other, first formulated in the fifteenth century by Leon Battista Alberti, has the architect use his talent in coordination with others to contribute to the common good of a republican civil order that seeks to protect its own liberty and that of its citizens. Palladio practiced this way, and so did Thomas Jefferson when he founded a uniquely American architecture, the counterpart to the nation’s founding. This narrative gives particular emphasis to the contrasting developments in architecture on the opposite sides of the English Channel. The book presents the value for clients and architects today and in the future of drawing on history and tradition. It stresses the importance, indeed, the urgency, of restoring traditional practices so that we can build just, beautiful, and sustainable cities and rural districts that will once again assist citizens in living not only abundantly but also well as they pursue their happiness.

Author : David Hemsoll
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300225761

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Emulating Antiquity by David Hemsoll Pdf

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

Author : Alessandro Camiz
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326736200

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Reconsidering Archaeology and Architecture. Book of abstracts by Alessandro Camiz Pdf

Abstract collection of the International Summer School "ENRICO GUIDONI", City and Territory: Archaeology and Architecture, Castel Madama (RM), Castello Orsini; Rome, Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica, Italy, September 2-11, 2016, organized by the Proloco Castel Madama and the International Centre for Heritage Studies of Girne American University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096605

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Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521766524

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Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture by Laura Salah Nasrallah Pdf

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature is best understood when read alongside the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity.

Author : Elisa Frei,Eleonora Rai,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky,Siegrid Westphal
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647573564

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Profiling Saints by Elisa Frei,Eleonora Rai,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky,Siegrid Westphal Pdf

"Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.

Author : Jaydev P. Desai,Gregory Dudek,Oussama Khatib,Vijay Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319000657

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Experimental Robotics by Jaydev P. Desai,Gregory Dudek,Oussama Khatib,Vijay Kumar Pdf

The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings, which are organized, in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects robotics contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 13the ISER held in Québec City, Canada, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, on June 18-21, 2012. This present thirteenth edition of Experimental Robotics edited by Jaydev P. Desai, Gregory Dudek, Oussama Khatib, and Vijay Kumar offers a collection of a broad range of topics in field and human-centered robotics.

Author : Marco Frascari,Federica Goffi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317280149

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Marco Frascari's Dream House by Marco Frascari,Federica Goffi Pdf

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one’s own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari's sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind.

Author : Clemente Marconi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199790524

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture by Clemente Marconi Pdf

The study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture has a long history that goes back to the second half of the 18th century and has provided an essential contribution towards the creation and the definition of the wider disciplines of Art History and Architectural History. This venerable tradition and record are in part responsible for the diffused tendency to avoid general discussions addressing the larger theoretical implications, methodologies, and directions of research in the discipline. This attitude is in sharp contrast not only with the wider field of Art History, but also with disciplines that are traditionally associated with the study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, like Classics and Classical Archaeology. In recent years, the field has been characterized by an ever-increasing range of approaches, under the influence of various disciplines such as Sociology, Semiotics, Gender Theory, Anthropology, Reception Theory, and Hermeneutics. In light of these recent developments, this Handbook seeks to explore key aspects of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, and to assess the current state of the discipline. The Handbook includes thirty essays, in addition to the introduction, by an international team of leading senior scholars, who have played a critical role in shaping the field, and by younger scholars, who will express the perspectives of a newer generation. After a framing introduction written by the editor, which compares ancient and modern notions of art and architecture, the Handbook is divided into five sections: Pictures from the Inside, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture in the Making, Ancient Contexts, Post-Antique Contexts, and Approaches. Together, the essays in the volume make for an innovative and important book, one that is certain to find a wide readership.

Author : Alicia Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107004771

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The Emperor and the World by Alicia Walker Pdf

Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power.

Author : Gözde Çakır Kıasıf
Publisher : EĞİTİM YAYINEVİ
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9786256552890

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International Research in Architecture Sciences III by Gözde Çakır Kıasıf Pdf

The architecture and design sector, which guides us in the process of understanding and giving meaning to this universe of which we are a part, is constantly nourished by science, culture and art. It embodies more sustainable, functional and aesthetic concerns by establishing a balance with the natural and built environment. Since every decision made in architecture, design and planning directly affects living life, these disciplines are of vital importance. This puts great responsibilities on designers. In this context, there are 3 studies in this book, which produces products in the field of architecture, planning and design. These book chapters’s names are ‘The Experience of Emulating Nature In Landscape Design’, ‘Change and Development of Healthcare Facilities During the Historical Process’ and ‘Sustainable Competition in the Global Jewelry Industry: An Analysis of Evolving Design Approaches’.

Author : Alexander Nagel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351547512

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Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art by Alexander Nagel Pdf

The studies in this volume focus on works of art that generate bafflement, and that make that difficulty of reading part of their rhetorical structure. These are works whose subjects are not easily identifiable or can be readily associated with more than one subject at the same time; works that take a subject into a new genre or format (pagan into Christian, for example, or vice versa), and thus destabilize the subject itself; works that concentrate on the marginal rather than the central episode; and works that introduce elements of the preparatory phase-the indeterminacy that are native to the sketch or drawing, for example-into the realm of finished works. Unable to settle on a single reading, the effort of interpretation doubles back on its own procedures. This aporia, according to Aristotle, serves as the initial impulse to philosophical inquiry. Although the works studied here are in many ways exceptional, the aporias they raise register larger structural problems belonging to the artistic culture as a whole. Between 1400 and 1700, we see the emergence of new formats, new genres, new subjects, and new techniques, as well as new venues for the display of art. It is an implicit thesis of this book that the systemic shifts occurring in the early modern period made the emergence of aporetic works of art, and of aporia as a problem for art, a structural inevitability.

Author : Elisabeth Oy-Marra,Lorenzo Pericolo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2503579795

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Perfection by Elisabeth Oy-Marra,Lorenzo Pericolo Pdf

Whether a painting, a sculpture, or a building, works of art in early modern Europe must achieve the highest degree of perfection. If in the Middle Ages perfection is mostly perceived as a technical quality inherent in craftsmanship--a quality that can be judged according to often unspoken criteria agreed upon by the members of a guild--from the fifteenth century onwards perfection comes to incorporate a set of rhetorical and literary qualities originally extraneous to art making. Furthermore, perfection becomes a transcendent quality: something that cannot be measured only in terms of craftsmanship. In the Baroque period, perfection turns into obsession as a result of the emergence of historical models of artistic evolution in which perfection is already historically embodied--in the first place, Vasari's investiture of Michelangelo as a universal canon for painting, sculpture, and architecture. This book aims to define, analyze, and reassess the concept of perfection in the arts and architecture of early modern Europe. What is perfection? What makes a work of art unique, emblematic, or irreplaceable? Does perfection necessarily relate to individuality? Is the perfect work connate with or independent from its author? Can perfection be reproduced or represented? How do artists react to perfection? How do post-Vasarian models of art history come to terms with perfection? To what extent perfection in early modern Europe is the matter of rhetoric, literary theories, theology, and even scientific observation?