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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900
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Lieven De Boeck
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How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide
to understanding the architecture of the modern era. It takes the
reader on a guided tour of modern architecture through its most
iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks
of each architectural style and how to recognise them in the
buildings all around. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts, through
the International Style and Modernism to today's environmental
architecture and the rise and fall of the icon, all the major
architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are
traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key
architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn
what to look out for and where to look for it. Packed with detailed
drawings, plans, and photographs, this is both a fascinating
architectural history and an effective I-spy guide, it is a
must-read for anyone with an interest in modern design and
architecture.
Although recently more studies have been devoted to the
representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less
is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women
by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how
heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite
received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists
originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the
nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth
century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb,
Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel
Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings
of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a "Jewish
perspective", creating complex and psychological portrayals of the
heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical
and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism
movement.
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