Venice From The Ground Up
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Venice From The Ground Up
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Author : James H. S. McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-30
Venice From The Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-30 with History categories.
Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H. S. McGregor recreates this world-turned-upside-down, with its waterways rather than roads, its boats tethered alongside dwellings, and its livelihood harvested from the sea. McGregor begins with the river currents that poured into the shallow Lagoon, carving channels in its bed and depositing islands of silt. He then describes the imaginative responses of Venetians to the demands and opportunities of this harsh environment—transforming the channels into canals, reclaiming salt marshes for the construction of massive churches, erecting a thriving marketplace and stately palaces along the Grand Canal. Through McGregor’s eyes, we witness the flowering of Venice’s restless creativity in the elaborate mosaics of St. Mark’s soaring basilica, the expressive paintings in smaller neighborhood churches, and the colorful religious festivals—but also in theatrical productions, gambling casinos, and masked revelry, which reveal the city’s less pious and orderly face. McGregor tells his unique history of Venice by drawing on a crumbling, tide-threatened cityscape and a treasure-trove of art that can still be seen in place today. The narrative follows both a chronological and geographical organization, so that readers can trace the city’s evolution chapter by chapter and visitors can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.
Paris From The Ground Up
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Author : James H. S. McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Paris From The Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with History categories.
Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist—a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. James H. S. McGregor brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this concise, unique history of the City of Light. His panorama begins with an ancient Gallic fortress on the Seine, burned to the ground by its own defenders in a vain effort to starve out Caesar’s legions. After ninth-century raids by the Vikings ended, Parisians expanded the walls of their tiny sanctuary on the Ile de la Cité, turning the river’s right bank into a thriving commercial district and the Rive Gauche into a college town. Gothic spires expressed a taste for architectural novelty, matched only by the palaces and pleasure gardens of successive monarchs whose ingenuity made Paris the epitome of everything French. The fires of Revolution threatened all that had come before, but Baron Haussmann saw opportunity in the wreckage. No planned city in the world is more famous than his. Paris from the Ground Up allows readers to trace the city’s evolution in its architecture and art—from the Roman arena to the Musée d’Orsay, from the Louvre’s defensive foundations to I. M. Pei’s transparent pyramids. Color maps, along with identifying illustrations, make the city accessible to visitors by foot, Metro, or riverboat.
Rome From The Ground Up
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Author : James H. S. McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-31
Rome From The Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-31 with Travel categories.
Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities—architectural, historical, political, and social—that constitute Rome. A multifaceted historical portrait, this richly illustrated work is as gritty as it is gorgeous, immersing readers in the practical world of each period. James H. S. McGregor’s explorations afford the pleasures of a novel thick with characters and plot twists: amid the life struggles, hopes, and failures of countless generations, we see how things truly worked, then and now; we learn about the materials of which Rome was built; of the Tiber and its bridges; of roads, aqueducts, and sewers; and, always, of power, especially the power to shape the city and imprint it with a particular personality—like that of Nero or Trajan or Pope Sixtus V—or a particular institution. McGregor traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed, from emperors and popes to national governments including Mussolini’s. And, in archaeologists’ and museums’ presentation of Rome’s past, he shows that the documenting of history itself is fraught with power and politics. In McGregor’s own beautifully written account, the power and politics emerge clearly, manifest in the distinctive styles and structures, practical concerns and aesthetic interests that constitute the myriad Romes of our day and days past.
Washington From The Ground Up
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Author : James H. S. McGregor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007
Washington From The Ground Up written by James H. S. McGregor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
From The Ground Up
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Author : Goodwin B. Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002
From The Ground Up written by Goodwin B. Steinberg and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
The renowned architect surveys the architectural underpinnings and modern design flavors of America's high tech capital--Silicon Valley--capturing not only the corporate world, but also public buildings, churches, hotels, community centers, museums, and private homes. (Fine Arts)
From The Ground Up
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Author : Fred E. Weick
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Release Date : 1988-03-17
From The Ground Up written by Fred E. Weick and has been published by Smithsonian Books (DC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-03-17 with Aeronautical engineers categories.
Venice Her Art Treasures And Historical Associations A Guide To The City And The Neighbouring Islands Translated And Compiled From The First Italian Edition With Additions By C M With A Map Of The City
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Author : Carlo MORETTI (of Venice.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Venice Her Art Treasures And Historical Associations A Guide To The City And The Neighbouring Islands Translated And Compiled From The First Italian Edition With Additions By C M With A Map Of The City written by Carlo MORETTI (of Venice.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.
From The Ground Up
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Author : Matthew Michael Tierney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
From The Ground Up written by Matthew Michael Tierney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
The Politics Of Washing
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Author : Polly Coles
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 2013-04-30
The Politics Of Washing written by Polly Coles and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Travel categories.
This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move house by boat, to get a child with a broken leg to hospital or set off for school one morning only to find that the streets have become rivers and the playground is a lake full of sewage? When Polly Coles and her family left England for Venice, they discovered a city caught between modern and ancient life - where the locals still go on an annual pilgrimage to give thanks for the end of the Black Death; where schools are housed in renaissance palaces and your new washing machine can only be delivered on foot. This is a city perilously under siege from tourism, but its people refuse to give it up - indeed, they love it with a passion. The Politics of Washing is a fascinating window into the world of ordinary Venetians and the strange and unique place they call home.
Book From The Ground
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Author : Bing Xu
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Book From The Ground written by Bing Xu and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Art categories.
A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.