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The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
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This book examines how seventeenth-century English architectural
theorists and designers rethought the domestic built environment in
terms of mobility, as motion became a dominant mode of articulating
the world across discourses encompassing philosophy, political
theory, poetry, and geography. From mid-century, the house and
estate that had evoked staccato rhythms became triggers for mental
and physical motion - evoking travel beyond England's shores,
displaying vistas, and showcasing changeable wall surfaces.
Simultaneously, philosophers and other authors argued for the first
time that, paradoxically, the blur of motion immobilised an
inherently restless viewer into social predictability and so
stability. Alternately feared and praised early in the century for
its unsettling unpredictability, motion became the most certain way
of comprehending social interactions, language, time, and the
buildings that filtered human experience. At the heart of this
narrative is the malleable sensory viewer, tacitly assumed in early
modern architectural theory and history yet whose inescapable
responsiveness to surrounding stimuli guaranteed a dependable world
from the seventeenth century. -- .
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