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This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are
shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the
governance of biological threats. In response to biological
threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the
world have developed a range of new security technologies, called
medical countermeasures, to protect their populations. This book
argues that the molecular sciences' influence has been so great
that security practices have been molecularised. Focusing on the
actions of international organisations and governments in the past
two decades, this book identifies two contrasting conceptions of
the nature or inherent workings of molecular life as driving this
turn. On the one hand, political notions of insecurity have been
shaped by the contingent or random nature of molecular life. On the
other, the identification of molecular life's constant biological
dynamics supports and makes possible the development and
stockpiling of effective medical countermeasures. This study is one
of the few to take seriously the conceptual implications that the
detailed empirical workings of biotechnology have on security
practices today. This book will be of much interest to students of
security studies, bio-politics, life sciences, global governance,
and International Relations in general.
Designed in 1929 and completed in 1930, this rare, bespoke bedroom,
created for the seventeen-year-old Elaine Wormser, embodies the
skillful blend of Viennese artistic influences, sleek modern
finishes, daring colour and pattern that marked all of the artist's
greatest achievements. The interior, whose elements are held by the
Cincinnati Art Museum, has never been fully researched, published
or displayed before now. Five essays, accompanied by full colour
illustrations, unlock the narratives and significance of this
important historic interior. Joseph Urban arrived in Boston in
1911; he lived and worked in the United States for the rest of his
life. Over the next twenty-two years, he would become one of the
nation's most important and celebrated designers, at the forefront
of American modernism, doing as much as anyone to shape its
distinctive face. His iconic designs include the New School for
Social Research, New York, 1930; the colour direction for the 1933
World's Fair; and the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1926
for E. F Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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Plato's Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
"An important document that should be included in any library of
design and architecture." - Daniella Ohad "A masterful blend of
émigré biography and architecture and design history, proving
that the twentieth century fostered more than one modernism." -
Donald Albrecht Christopher Long, author of seminal monographs on
Adolf Loos, Kem Weber, and Paul T. Frankel, turns his attention to
the little-known architect and designer Jock Peters, a largely
forgotten figure of early Los Angeles modernism. This visually rich
study is also an intimate portrait of an architect who, like too
many, struggled to establish a career during the early decades of
the 20th century, years ravished by World War I and the Great
Depression. Among Peters's early works in Germany are designs for
the Levantehaus and Karstadt department stores, an innovative
design dated 1916 for a magnificent glass pavilion, and his work
for Peter Behrens after the war, but the architect's most
accomplished and compelling work came after 1922 when he settled in
Southern California. Most notable are the strikingly lavish and
elegant commercial interiors Peters designed for the iconic
Bullock's Wilshire store in Los Angeles and the tragically
forgotten Hollander department store in New York City; both
projects brought him international recognition. The breathtaking
scope of his short-lived career includes modern film sets for
Famous Players-Lasky, later Paramount Pictures, while working under
the legendary art director Hans Dreier; a dynamic sales office for
the trendsetting Maddux Air Lines, which later became TWA; and
modern residences, including the still extant homes he built for
cinematographer Alfred Gilks, who would later win an Academy Award
for An American in Paris, and art gallerist and developer
William Lingenbrink for whom Peters also designed stores and a
vibrantly colourful sidewalk for the Silver Strand beach
development north of Los Angeles. Lingenbrink, a major supporter of
the burgeoning modernism, also commissioned Jock Peters, alongside
Schindler, to design houses for Park Moderne, the legendary
avant-garde modernist retreat for artists in Calabasas. Peters also
designed the retreat's Streamline Moderne pump house, clubhouse,
and zigzag fountain, which still stands. This important study on
early modernism includes never before published material from the
architect's personal archive, still in family hands. These
remarkable and inspiring images-more than 250 historic photographs,
etchings, watercolours, and drawings-alongside Long's insightful
narrative, demonstrate how Peters, despite his early death, managed
to leave his mark on the modernist landscape in Southern California
at a time when the new style was just emerging.
The first publication to catalog the complete works of architect
and arts advocate Alfred Preis, a Viennese modernist who fled
Nazi-occupied Austria and transformed regional Hawaiian
architecture, with his best-known project being the USS Arizona
Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Architect, planner, and arts advocate
Alfred Preis (1911-1994) dedicated his many creative talents to his
beloved, adopted home, Hawai'i. Born to a Jewish family, raised,
and educated in Vienna, Preis became an exile after escaping from
Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and briefly being interned as an
"enemy alien" when the United States entered World War II. Preis
emerged as one of Hawai'i's leading modern architects in the 1950s
and 1960s. His celebrated architectural career spanned twenty-three
years. In this time, he designed almost one hundred and eighty
completed projects ranging from residences, schools, commercial
buildings, and public parks. His new, regionalist vision for
architecture and planning were specific to the Hawaiian context,
its people, its tropical climate, and its stunning landscape.
Preis's crowning achievement was his design for the famed USS
Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in 1962. This is the first
publication to examine Alfred Preis's body of work in architecture,
which spans from 1939 to 1963, including not only several acclaimed
public projects but also illustrating the transition from a
European modern language into a regional modernism, unifying both
cultures in distinct and pioneering ways. In later years through
his legislative work, Alfred Preis became a visionary advocate and
leader for the public arts, creating the first 1% law in the United
States, which stipulated that 1% of all public building
construction be used for the purchase of public art.
A fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement, charting its origins
in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and
its ultimate place in everyday households In its spread from
Britain to the United States, the Arts and Crafts Movement evolved
from its roots in individual craftsmanship to a mainstream trend
increasingly adapted for mass production by American retailers.
Inspired by John Ruskin in Britain in the 1840s in response to what
he saw as the corrosive forces of industrialization, the movement
was profoundly transformed as its tenets of simple design, honest
use of materials, and social value of handmade goods were widely
adopted and commodified by companies like Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The movement grew popular in early 20th-century America, where it
was stripped of its reformist ideals by large-scale manufacturing
and merchandising through department stores and mail-order
catalogues. This beautiful book is illustrated with stunning
furniture and designs by William Morris, Gustav Stickley, and
Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft community, among many others, along with
such ephemera as the catalogues, sales brochures, and magazine
spreads that generated popular interest. This perspective offers a
new understanding of the Arts and Crafts idea, its geographical
reach, and its translation into everyday design. Published in
association with the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas
at Austin Exhibition Schedule: Harry Ransom Center at The
University of Texas at Austin (02/09/19-07/14/19)
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