Backyard Visionaries
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Backyard Visionaries
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Author : Barbara Brackman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Backyard Visionaries written by Barbara Brackman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
A photographic chronicle of backyard art, with essays that examine various aspects of the work of grassroots artists.
Visionaries And Planners
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Author : Stanley Buder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Visionaries And Planners written by Stanley Buder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Garden cities categories.
Visionaries And Planners
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Author : Stanley Buder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1990-07-26
Visionaries And Planners written by Stanley Buder and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-26 with History categories.
For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned "garden cities" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the "master key" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban changes and the rise of the suburbs. In this interconnected history of the Garden City movement in the United States and Britain, Buder examines its influence, strengths and limitations. Howard's garden city, he shows, joined together two very different types of late-nineteenth-century experimental communities, creating a tension never fully resolved. One approach, utopian and radical in nature, challenged conventional values; the other, the model industrial towns of "enlightened" capitalists, reinforceed them. Buder traces this tension through planning history from the nineteenth-century world of visionaries, philanthropy, and self help into our own with its reliance on the expert, bureaucracy, and governmental policy, shedding light on the complex changes in the way we have thought in the twentieth century about community, urban design, and indeed the process of change. His final chapters examine the world-wide enthusiasm for "New Towns" between 1945-1975 and recent political and social trends which challenge many fundamental assumptions of modern planning.
Sublime Spaces And Visionary Worlds
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Author : Leslie Umberger
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2007-10-04
Sublime Spaces And Visionary Worlds written by Leslie Umberger and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-04 with Architecture categories.
The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate "Healing Machines," made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail.From "Original Rhinestone Cowboy" Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of "witch of Fox Point" Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.
Explaining Traditions
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2011-08-26
Explaining Traditions written by Simon J. Bronner and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-26 with Social Science categories.
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging prevailing notions of tradition as a relic of the past, Explaining Traditions provides deep insight into the nuances and purposes of living traditions in relation to modernity. Bronner's work forces readers to examine their own traditions and imparts a better understanding of raging controversies over the sustainability of traditions in the modern world.
Handmade Garden Projects
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Author : Lorene Edwards Forkner
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press
Release Date : 2012-06-05
Handmade Garden Projects written by Lorene Edwards Forkner and has been published by Timber Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Gardening categories.
Your journey to a made-from-scratch outdoor space starts here. Transform your yard into a beautifully personalized retreat with 30 step-by-step projects! The finished pieces include creative pathways, unique support structures, DIY water features, clever containers, and special finishing touches that help bring your garden to life. With easy to follow instructions, lush color photography, and sidebars filled with helpful tips and additional ideas, Handmade Garden Projects is an inspiring step toward a more stylish space.
Vernacular Architecture In The 21st Century
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Author : Lindsay Asquith
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006-03-10
Vernacular Architecture In The 21st Century written by Lindsay Asquith and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-10 with Architecture categories.
The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected essays from the leading experts in the field focus on theory, education and practice in this essential sector of architecture, and help to formulate solutions to the environmental, disaster management and housing challenges facing the global community today.
Outsider Art
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Author : Daniel Wojcik
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Outsider Art written by Daniel Wojcik and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Art categories.
Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric outcasts, and unschooled artistic geniuses who create things outside of mainstream artistic trends and styles. Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma provides a comprehensive guide through the contested terrain of outsider art and the related domains of art brut, visionary art, “art of the insane,” and folk art. The book examines the history and primary issues of the field as well as explores the intersection between culture and individual creativity that is at the very heart of outsider art definitions and debates. Daniel Wojcik's interdisciplinary study challenges prevailing assumptions about the idiosyncratic status of outsider artists. This wide-ranging investigation of the art and lives of those labeled outsiders focuses on the ways that personal tragedies and suffering have inspired the art-making process. In some cases, trauma has triggered a creative transformation that has helped artists confront otherwise overwhelming life events. Additionally, Wojcik's study illustrates how vernacular traditions, religious worldviews, ethnic heritage, and popular culture have influenced such art. With its detailed consideration of personal motivations, cultural milieu, and the potentially therapeutic aspects of art making, this volume provides a deeper understanding of the artistic impulse and human creativity.
Avant Gardeners
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Author : Tim Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Avant Gardeners written by Tim Richardson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Max
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Author : Ros Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Iowa State Press
Release Date : 1990
Max written by Ros Jensen and has been published by Iowa State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.