Cultivating Madrid
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Cultivating Madrid
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Author : Daniel Frost
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
Cultivating Madrid written by Daniel Frost and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
Interdisciplinary in approach, 'Cultivating Madrid' argues that gardens and garden imagery trouble the distinction not only between nature and artifice, but also between reality and representation in general, and are thus crucial to understanding realism and the process of modernisation in Spain.
Antonio L Pez Garc A S Everyday Urban Worlds
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Author : Benjamin Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Antonio L Pez Garc A S Everyday Urban Worlds written by Benjamin Fraser and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urban scenes—but it is urban time that is his real subject. Going far beyond mere artist biography, Benjamin Fraser explores the relevance of multiple disciplines to an understanding of the painter’s large-scale canvasses. Weaving selected images together with their urban referents—and without ever straying too far from discussion of the painter’s oeuvre, method and reception by critics—Fraser pulls from disciplines as varied as philosophy, history, Spanish literature and film, cultural studies, urban geography, architecture, and city planning in his analyses. The book begins at ground level with one of the artist’s most recognizable images, the Gran Vía, which captures the urban project that sought to establish Madrid as an emblem of modernity. Here, discussion of the artist’s chosen painting style—one that has been referred to as a ‘hyperrealism’—is integrated with the central street’s history, the capital’s famous literary figures, and its filmic representations, setting up the philosophical perspective toward which the book gradually develops. Chapter two rises in altitude to focus on Madrid desde Torres Blancas, an urban image painted from the vantage point provided by an iconic high-rise in the north-central area of the city. Discussion of the Spanish capital’s northward expansion complements a broad view of the artist’s push into representations of landscape and allows for the exploration of themes such as political conflict, social inequality, and the accelerated cultural change of an increasingly mobile nation during the 1960s. Chapter three views Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas and signals a turn toward political philosophy. Here, the size of the artist’s image itself foregrounds questions of scale, which Fraser paints in broad strokes as he blends discussions of artistry with the turbulent history of one of Madrid’s outlying districts and a continued focus on urban development and its literary and filmic resonance. Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds also includes an artist timeline, a concise introduction and an epilogue centering on the artist’s role in the Spanish film El sol del membrillo. The book’s clear style and comprehensive endnotes make it appropriate for both general readers and specialists alike.
Cultivating Nature
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Author : Sarah R. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-04-15
Cultivating Nature written by Sarah R. Hamilton and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with History categories.
Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists, politicians, and tourists have made this working landscape a site of ongoing conflict over environmental conservation in Europe, the future of Spain, and Valencian identity. In Cultivating Nature, Sarah Hamilton explores the Albufera’s contested lands and waters, which have supported and been transformed by human activity for a millennium, in order to understand regional, national, and global social histories. She argues that efforts to preserve biological and cultural diversity must incorporate the interests of those who live within heavily modified and long-exploited ecosystems such as the Albufera de Valencia. Shifting between local struggles and global debates, this fascinating environmental history reveals how Franco’s dictatorship, Spain’s integration with Europe, and the crisis in European agriculture have shaped the Albufera, its users, and its inhabitants.
The Routledge Companion To Iberian Studies
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Author : Javier Muñoz-Basols
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-16
The Routledge Companion To Iberian Studies written by Javier Muñoz-Basols and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline offering promising areas of future research. It is an essential tool for research in Iberian Studies.
Henri Lefebvre And The Spanish Urban Experience
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Author : Benjamin Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-19
Henri Lefebvre And The Spanish Urban Experience written by Benjamin Fraser and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products—from urban plans and short writing on the urban expereince during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even te apperance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent videogames.
Holism And The Cultivation Of Excellence In Sports And Performance
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Author : Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-02
Holism And The Cultivation Of Excellence In Sports And Performance written by Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Skillful Striving is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, pragmatism, and East Asian philosophies (Japanese and Chinese), it espouses thick holism. Concerned with an integrative bodymind gradually achieved through performance that aims at excellence, the process of self-cultivation proper of thick holism relies on an ecologically rich epistemic landscape where skills are coupled to virtues in pragmatic contexts. Ultimately, this process results in admirable performances and exemplary character. Japanese dō (practices of self-cultivation) are prominent modes and models of such flourishing. A holistic and radically enactive approach that advances contentless capacities in lieu of representations transparently accounts for the kind of action that characterizes such expert performances. Importantly, these performer-centered endeavors unfold within communities that foster the cultivation of our abilities as lifelong quests for human excellence. Each chapter can be read independently but still forms part of a continuous argumentative and narrative thread. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
Gender And Modernity In Spanish Literature
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Author : Elizabeth Smith Rousselle
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Gender And Modernity In Spanish Literature written by Elizabeth Smith Rousselle and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Social Science categories.
Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.
Lens Laboratory Landscape
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Author : Claudia Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Lens Laboratory Landscape written by Claudia Schaefer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with History categories.
Lens, Laboratory, Landscape focuses on competing views about the power of vision in Spain between the 1830s and the 1950s. The photographic lens, laboratory microscope, "retinal vision" of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the topographical studies of Manuel de Terán are woven together in and around a European cultural milieu that gave observation primacy. For once, Spain—now bereft of its empire—was not on the outside of such debates. Whether in the laboratory, family home, darkroom, art gallery, or on the road, in Cuba or Zaragoza, Madrid or Massachusetts, Spanish artists and scientists were engaged with the social and economic power of observation at a time when the speed of modern life made observing a challenge. Claudia Schaefer brings the technologies of the eye—photograph, microscope, lens, tools for land surveying—to light as markers on the nation's touted path to modernity.
Madrid On The Move
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Author : Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02
Madrid On The Move written by Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02 with categories.
Madrid on the move illustrates print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity by looking beyond its canonical texts, artworks, and locations and explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. Rather than shifting the loci of modernity from Paris or London to Madrid, this book decentres the concept and explains the modern experience as part of a more fluid, global phenomenon. Meanings of the modern were not only dictated by linguistic authorities and urban technocrats; they were discussed, lived, and constructed on a daily basis. Cultural actors and audiences displayed an acute awareness of what being modern entailed and explored the links between the local and the global, two concepts and contexts that were being conceived and perceived as inseparable.
East India Chinchona Cultivation
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Author : Great Britain. India Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
East India Chinchona Cultivation written by Great Britain. India Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Cinchona (India). categories.