Unnatural Horizons

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 1568981392

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Unnatural Horizons by Allen S. Weiss Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Edward Thomas
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0522851517

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The Artificial Horizon by Martin Edward Thomas Pdf

Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.

Author : Jamie Horwitz,Paulette Singley
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262083221

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Eating Architecture by Jamie Horwitz,Paulette Singley Pdf

A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture - the preparation of meals and the production of space.

Author : Patrícia Vieira,Monica Gagliano,John Charles Ryan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781498510608

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The Green Thread by Patrícia Vieira,Monica Gagliano,John Charles Ryan Pdf

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, “the green thread” is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, “the green thread” links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal—a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9780791483084

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Wind and the Source, The by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shelton Waldrep
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317035473

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The Dissolution of Place by Shelton Waldrep Pdf

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general.

Author : Anna Alexander,Mark S. Roberts
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791487587

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High Culture by Anna Alexander,Mark S. Roberts Pdf

This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders," its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane? Taking a cultural studies approach to addiction, High Culture offers a readable and accessible collection of essays on these socially marginalized practices and discourses so central to modernity.

Author : Deborah Kapchan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819576668

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Theorizing Sound Writing by Deborah Kapchan Pdf

The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.

Author : Allen S. Weiss
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081956592X

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Breathless by Allen S. Weiss Pdf

Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.

Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812240726

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Medici Gardens by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto Pdf

Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

Author : Robert Pogue Harrison
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781459606265

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Gardens by Robert Pogue Harrison Pdf

Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. Moving from the gardens of ancient philosophers to the gardens of homeless people in contemporary New York, he shows how, again and again, the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. The ancients, explains Harrison, viewed gardens as both a model and a location for the laborious self-cultivation and self-improvement that are essential to serenity and enlightenment, an association that has continued throughout the ages. The Bible and Qur'an; Plato's Academy and Epicurus's Garden School; Zen rock and Islamic carpet gardens; Boccaccio, Rihaku, Capek, Cao Xueqin, Italo Calvino, Ariosto, Michel Tournier, and Hannah Arendt - all come into play as this work explores the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power. Alive with the echoes and arguments of Western thought, Gardens is a fitting continuation of the intellectual journeys of Harrison's earlier classics, Forests and The Dominion of the Dead. Voltaire famously urged us to cultivate our gardens; with this compelling volume, Robert Pogue Harrison reminds us of the nature of that responsibility - and its enduring importance to humanity.

Author : Michael S. Carolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317144946

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Embodied Food Politics by Michael S. Carolan Pdf

While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing bodies and will be of interest to food scholars as well as those more generally interested in the phenomenon known as embodied realism. This book is about the materializations of food politics; "materializations", in this case, referring to our embodied, sensuous, and physical connectivities to food production and consumption. It is through these materializations, argues Carolan, that we know food (and the food system more generally), others and ourselves.

Author : Les Roberts
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781846317576

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Film, Mobility and Urban Space by Les Roberts Pdf

Reevaluating the significance of location in contemporary film practice and urban cultural theory, Film, Mobility and Urban Space explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. Les Roberts draws on over 1,700 films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present and combines critical spatial analysis, archival research, and qualitative methods to navigate the city's cinematic geographies as mapped across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries, and features.

Author : Ron Scapp,Brian Seitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791438597

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Eating Culture by Ron Scapp,Brian Seitz Pdf

Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives not for a reductive overview but for a complex understanding. Eating Culture offers a number of diverse outlooks on some of the prominent practices and issues associated with the domain of eating.

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262201612

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Becoming Animal by Nato Thompson Pdf

Contemporary artists investigate the boundaries between animal and human in a world of transgenics and dissolving distinctions; with 65 color images of new works. In an age when scientists say they can no longer specify the exact difference between human and animal, living and dead, many contemporary artists have chosen to use animals in their work—as the ultimate "other," as metaphor, as reflection. The attempt to discover what is animal, not surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists investigate the shifting boundaries between animal and human. Their explorations may be a barometer of things to come. The works included in Becoming Animal—which accompanies an exhibit at MASS MoCA—range from the aviary and cabinet of curiosities of Mark Dion to the gun-toting bird collages of Michael Oatman. Nicolas Lampert's machine-animal collages and Jane Alexander's corpse-like humanoids suggest a new landscape of alienation. Rachel Berwick's investigation of the last Galapagos tortoise from the island of Pinto and Brian Conley's humanized mating call of the Tungara frog question the divide between human and animal communication. Patricia Piccinini imagines a bodyguard for a bird on the edge of extinction and Ann-Sofi Siden recreates the bedroom—and paranoia—of psychologist Alice Fabian. Natalie Jeremijenko presents another installment in her ongoing Ooz, reverse-engineering the zoo, and Kathy High's installation of "trans-animals" remembers lab rats who have given their lives for science. Sam Easterson's videos allow us to see from the viewpoint of an aardvark, a tarantula, a tumbleweed; Motohiko Odani's films show a surrealistic genetically modified bestiary. Becoming Animal documents these works with eye-popping full-color images, taking us on a visual journey through an unknown world.