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This beautifully produced survey of over a thousand years of
Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a vast period
of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The
monumental arts and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are
presented here within the social, religious, and political
frameworks of lands as varied as France and Denmark, Spain and
Turkey. Marilyn Stokstad also teaches her reader how to look at
medieval art-which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting
are important and for what reasons. Stylistic and iconographic
issues and themes are thoroughly addressed with attention paid to
aesthetic and social contexts.
Brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to
exploring the complex processes that transformed architecture's
pedagogies in the 20th century. Includes contributions from
Belgium, South Africa, USA, Australia, Italy and Sweden Presents
illustrated case studies of works by architects, educators and
theorists including Dalibor Vesely, Dom Hans van der Laan,
Alessandro Mendini, Heinrich Woelfflin, Alfons Hoppenbrouwers,
Joseph Rykwert, Pancho Guedes and Robert Cummings
Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we
rarely stop to think about the important role that photography
plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public.
Photography and Its Publics brings together leading experts and
emerging thinkers to consider the special role of photography in
shaping how the public is addressed, seen and represented.This book
responds to a growing body of recent scholarship and flourishing
interest in photography's connections to the law, society, culture,
politics, social change, the media and visual ethics.Photography
and Its Publics presents the public sphere as a vibrant setting
where these realms are produced, contested and entwined. Public
spheres involve yet exceed the limits of families, interest groups,
identities and communities. They are dynamic realms of visibility,
discussion, reflection and possible conflict among strangers of
different race, age, gender, social and economic status. Through
studies of photography in South America, North America, Europe and
Australasia, the contributors consider how photography has changed
the way we understand and locate the public sphere. As they address
key themes including the referential and imaginative qualities of
photography, the transnational circulation of photographs, online
publics, social change, violence, conflict and the ethics of
spectatorship, the authors provide new insight into photography's
vital role in defining public life.
This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of
transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one
another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jorn Utzon.
It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design
thinking and career of this renowned Danish architect,
internationally recognised for his competition-winning, iconic
design for the Sydney Opera House - an outstanding exemplar of
transcultural essentialism in architecture. Transcultural
essentialism is analysed through the lens of critical regionalism
and architectural phenomenology, with emphasis on the sense of
place and tectonics in Utzon's architectural works. It provides a
new understanding of the Danish architect as an early proponent of
a still emergent and increasingly relevant direction in
architecture. Going beyond biographical studies, it presents a more
comprehensive understanding of the broad range of transcultural
influences that formed his thinking. The volume includes numerous
previously unpublished photographs, drawings, and interviews with
Utzon's family members, former students, and colleagues, offering a
significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge for any
architecture scholar interested in Utzon's work and design
principles. The book also comprises a Foreword by eminent
architecture theorist Juhani Pallasmaa in which he provides
insights into the wider architectural and cultural context of
Utzon's worldview.
Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the
collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent
communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now
sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or
sands, and the carcasses of twentieth-century buildings which serve
as reminders of the destructive power of war. These compelling
stories of fallen or lost places are brought together through
themes of war, climate change, natural hazards, human
self-destruction, and simple economics. From the ice of the Arctic
fringe, through to the desert landscapes of North Africa, by way of
South America's high mountains and Southeast Asia's urban sprawl,
Amongst the Ruins charts the rise and fall of places and
communities around the world, the fascinating characters associated
with them, and the important events that punctuate their history.
Exploring wide-ranging examples from prehistory to the present day,
John Darlington challenges us to recognize past failures and
identify what we need to do to protect the cultures of our current
world.
This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an
early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader
with a systematic method for the historical understanding of
African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique,
style and meaning of art objects and examines the creative process
through which they come into being. Numerous photographs and
drawings illustrate his arguments, and help to explain the changes
that have taken place.
Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis
of changes in the architectural profession. Contains
thought-provoking chapters from some of the disciplines' leading
thinkers and draws together new research that helps us to look
again at the question of urban development. Focuses on the link
between architecture, urban theory and societal ideas.
Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis
of changes in the architectural profession. Contains
thought-provoking chapters from some of the disciplines' leading
thinkers and draws together new research that helps us to look
again at the question of urban development. Focuses on the link
between architecture, urban theory and societal ideas.
This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to
modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors
reflect on Japan's transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the
discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse
aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show
how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to
become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the
hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies,
productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book
presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how
new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views
and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different
practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the
knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes
of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of
modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of
interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies,
Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use
approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural
studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies.
A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history
Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural
styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an
architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of
detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie
Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique
guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt,
China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary
architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian,
Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and
biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the
building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks
at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels,
curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on
building parts-from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and
vaulting-along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.
Comprehensive and authoritative, Architectural Styles is an
essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have
illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.
Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India
shaped the British stateās nationalisation of the East India
Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire
Ā This pioneering book explores how art shaped the
nationalisation of the East India Company between the loss of its
primary monopoly in 1813 and its ultimate liquidation in 1858.
Challenging the idea that parliament drove political reform, it
argues instead that the Companyās political legitimacy was
destabilised by novel modes of artistic production in colonial
India. New artistic forms and practicesāthe result of new
technologies like lithography and steam navigation, middle-class
print formats like the periodical, the scrapbook and the literary
annual, as well as the prevalence of amateur sketching among
Company employeesāreconfigured the colonial regimeās racial
boundaries and techniques of governance. They flourished within
transimperial networks, integrating middle-class societies with new
political convictions and moral disciplines, and thereby eroding
the aristocratic corporate cultures that had previously structured
colonial authority in India. Ā Unmaking the East India
Company contributes to a reassessment of British art as a global,
corporate and intrinsically imperial phenomenonāhighlighting the
role of overlooked media, artistic styles and print formats in
crafting those distinctions of power and identity that defined
āBritishnessā across the world. Ā Distributed for the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Students will be encouraged and inspired to see themselves, their
studies and art practices, their life and their world newly
informed by a historical perspective enhanced by creative
contributions from artists, imaginative philosophers and
influential cultural commentators. Challenges the emphasis on the
uniqueness of the contemporary cultural landscape - with its
addictive social media and rolling news - to reveal and explore a
more historical perspective that is always and also present in our
thoughts, objects, images, ideas and actions. 'Widening
participation' policies aim to involve more students from more and
different backgrounds in Fine Art than ever before. Chapters that
vary in length, along with interleaving of interviews,
illustrations and appendices, all aim to make this book easy to
progress-through and accessible to a broad and diverse readership
with varying academic experience and abilities.
Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper
Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based
on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis'
years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent,
the creation of Vorticism and publication of Blast, and his
experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love affairs, his
bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, the suppressed
books of the thirties, the evolution of his political ideas, his
self-imposed exile in North America and creative resurgence during
his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis'
relationships with Roy Campbell, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine
Mansfield, T. E Lawrence, Hemingway, Huxley, Yeats, Auden, Spender,
Orwell and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the
shadows, he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one
of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English
art and literature.
The first book to offer a comprehensive review of underground space
Includes a wide range of examples of all forms of underground
spaces Illustrated throughout with over 100 black and white images
What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is
its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end?
Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic
force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea
Connor traces the 'afterlife' of two exemplary examples of
monumental destruction and their re-investment with cultural value
and symbolic significance. In 1993, during the Bosnian war, the
Mostar Bridge was completely destroyed. Reconstructed in 2004, as
an exact copy of the original, this "new Old Bridge" has assumed an
afterlife as an intentional monument to reconciliation. The World
Trade Centre, in New York, has also been transformed since its
destruction in 2001, as a place of national mourning and
remembrance, a symbolic void marking a singular act of terrorism.
Using recent work on affect and object agency Connor considers
their contested reconfiguration as sites of collective remembering
and forgetting in new highly charged political contexts. She argues
for a more expansive notion of reconstruction - encompassing not
only the material and symbolic afterlife of both things but also
their affecting afterlives as they are re-assembled in the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of the way monuments and heritage
sites, even in their absence, become powerful agents of historical
narrativization, this work will be of interest to students and
scholars in a range of fields including international relations,
cultural studies, critical heritage studies, and material culture
studies.
Through individual case studies involving the professions of
sculptor, painter, potter, printmaker, and architect, this book
addresses the question about what it meant to be an artist in Japan
from the seventh century to the twentieth. How did artists go about
their business? What degree of control did they exercise over their
metier? How were they viewed by society? How was the image of the
artist fashioned in various periods? Throughout much of Japan's
past, artists' thoughts about their activities have remained
unrecorded. Some of the essays in this volume reveal how the
machine of political discourse worked to invent different views of
the same artist over time. Others explore cases of later artists
manipulating the names of earlier ones for professional or cultural
gain, while still other essays reconstruct some of the forces
brought to bear on artistic reception by the makers'
contemporaries. The activities of artists whose stories are told
here required the collaboration of numerous skilled colleagues,
often deployed in the hierarchical structure of the hereditary
workshop; they had to fight hard to gain social and economic
recognition. The book also addresses issues of canon formation: by
what complex process are some artists and objects singled out to
communicate rhetorical or aesthetic meaning while others lapse into
the background? Contributors include Karen L. Brock, Louise Allison
Cort, Julie Nelson Davis, Christine M. E. Guth, Donald F. McCallum,
Jonathan M. Reynolds, and Melinda Takeuchi.
Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham
Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for
the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a
century was a dynamic force among English artists and
intellectuals. Culturally, Lewis played the dual role of innovator
and iconoclast. Lewis's letters show the wide range of his
interests as well as his great verbal energy and unrelenting
intellect. Lewis knew most of the significant artists and writers
of his time and some of them - Augustus John, Pound, Eliot and
Joyce were his lifelong friends and chief correspondents.
Regardless of to whom he was writing, he displayed his intense
awareness of the personalities and currents around him.
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This is the essential companion to the architecture of
Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and
featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted to
the famous university city, with its astonishingly rich and varied
inheritance of college buildings including striking post-war
additions. A combination of boldness and innovation may be found at
Ely Cathedral, one of the greatest achievements of English medieval
design. By comparison, the rest of the county remains surprisingly
little known. Its largely unspoiled landscapes vary from the
northern flat fen country to the rolling chalk uplands of the south
and east; its architecture encompasses rewarding village churches,
distinctive vernacular building in timber, stone, and brick, the
former monastic sites at Denny and Anglesey, and the magnificent
aristocratic seat of Wimpole Hall.
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful,
intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags,
tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time
when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed,
beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit
women's resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses,
from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces
for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art,
beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to
the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews.
Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen
Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S'eiltin, and Larry McNeil
foreground the significance of historical beading practices in
their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum
collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with
artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked
artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary
inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom
to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities,
support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful
Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and
contributes to the expanding literature addressing women's artistic
expressions on the Northwest Coast.
This book examines the development of national emblems,
photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern
spaces for art exhibitions, university programs of visual arts, and
other agencies of modern art in Korea. With few books on modern art
in Korea available in English, this book is an authoritative volume
on the topic and provides a comparative perspective on Asian
modernism including Japan, China, and India. In turn, these essays
also shed a light on Asian reception of and response to the
Orientalism and exoticism popular in Europe and North America in
the early twentieth century. The book will be of interest to
scholars working in art history, the history of Asia, Asian
studies, colonialism, nationalism, and cultural identity.
As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from
Zanzibar's years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed
building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or
Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris
and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history
behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by
historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto
unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material
evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this
remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until
1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which
culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals
the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing
political context of the twentieth century British Empire and
explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who
shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers.
Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits,
this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in
creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the
conflicted character of the 'colonial mission' in eastern Africa.
While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and
experimental moment in western art history, little research has
been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the
historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvered
through the nineteenth century's vast inventory of available styles
and embarked on a revivalist/Orientalist program they identified as
the 'Ottoman Renaissance.' Ahmet A. Ersoy's book examines the
complex historicist discourse underlying this belated 'renaissance'
through a close reading of a text conceived as the movement's
canonizing manifesto: the Usul-i Mi'mari-i 'Osmani [The
Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture] (Istanbul, 1873). In its
translocal, cross-disciplinary scope, Ersoy's work explores the
creative ways in which the Ottoman authors straddled the
art-historical mainstream and their new, self-orientalizing
aesthetics of locality. The study reveals how Orientalism was
embraced by its very objects, the self-styled 'Orientals' of the
modern world, as a marker of authenticity, and a strategically
located aesthetic tool to project universally recognizable images
of cultural difference. Rejecting the lesser, subsidiary status
ascribed to non-western Orientalisms, Ersoy's work contributes to
recent, post-Saidian directions in the study of cultural
representation that resituate the field of Orientalism beyond its
polaristic core, recognizing its cross-cultural potential as a
polyvalent discourse.
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