The Humanists Versus The Reactionary Avant Garde
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The Humanists Versus The Reactionary Avant Garde
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Author : Charles Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Omo Press
Release Date : 2016-02-09
The Humanists Versus The Reactionary Avant Garde written by Charles Siegel and has been published by Omo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Architecture categories.
Modernist architects were part of a larger social movement that believed technology would bring a better future. Today, we can see that we need to make selective use of technology, using technologies that are beneficial and controlling those that are destructive. Beginning in the 1970s, postmodern architects were part of a larger social movement to use technology for human purposes. But today’s avant gardists have rejected this humanist impulse and regressed to the modernist fascination with technology for its own sake, even if their designs are cold and sterile—and even if their designs are so antihuman that they make people feel sick. The avant gardists are conservatives, celebrating the status quo of our technological economy. Neotraditional architects are the real progressives, trying to humanize our economy. With its new view of the history of architecture, its hilarious examples of antihuman avant gardist designs, and its inspiring examples of designs that learn from traditional models, this book will convince you that the emperors of today’s architecture have no clothes. "Among the ... books on this topic that I have read, yours is by far the most sophisticated and the most up to date." --Andres Duany, principal of DPZ Partners "Siegel makes a clear and intelligent case, based not on romantic nostalgia but on the pressing issues of contemporary society. I recommend this book in the strongest possible terms." --Prof. Nikos Salingaros, author of A Theory of Architecture
Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume Xlii
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Author : Gilbert Tournoy
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 1993-02-15
Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume Xlii written by Gilbert Tournoy and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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A Research Agenda For New Urbanism
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Author : Emily Talen
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2019
A Research Agenda For New Urbanism written by Emily Talen and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Political Science categories.
New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapters by leading scholars of New Urbanism. Authors focus on multiple topics, including affordability, transportation, social life and retail to highlight the areas of research that are most important for the future of the field. The book summarizes what we know and what we need to know to provide a research agenda that will have the greatest promise and most positive impact on building the best possible human habitat—which is the aim of New Urbanism.
Rethinking Lessing S Laocoon
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Author : Michael Squire
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Rethinking Lessing S Laocoon written by Michael Squire 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 2017 with Art categories.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting' in a myriad of different ways. In this anthology of specially commissioned chapters - comprising the first ever edited book on the Laocoon in English - a range of leading critical voices has been brought together to reassess Lessing's essay on its 250th anniversary. Combining perspectives from multiple disciplines (including classics, intellectual history, philosophy, aesthetics, media studies, comparative literature, and art history), the book explores the Laocoon from a plethora of critical angles. Chapters discuss Lessing's interpretation of ancient art and poetry, the cultural backdrops of the eighteenth century, and the validity of the Laocoon's observations in the fields of aesthetics, semiotics, and philosophy. The volume shows how the Laocoon exploits Greek and Roman models to sketch the proper spatial and temporal 'limits' (Grenzen) of what Lessing called 'poetry' and 'painting'; at the same time it demonstrates how Lessing's essay is embedded within Enlightenment theories of art, perception, and historical interpretation, as well as within nascent eighteenth-century ideas about the 'scientific' study of Classical antiquity (Altertumswissenschaft). To engage critically with the Laocoon, and to make sense of its legacy over the last 250 years, consequently involves excavating various 'classical presences': by looking back to the Graeco-Roman past, the volume demonstrates, Lessing forged a whole new tradition of modern aesthetics.
Romanian Literature As World Literature
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Author : Mircea Martin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-12-28
Romanian Literature As World Literature written by Mircea Martin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions whose relevance extends beyond the Romanian, Romance, and East European cultural systems. This “intersectional” revisiting of Romanian literature is organized into three parts. Opening with a fresh look at the literary ideology of Romania's “national poet,” Mihai Eminescu, part I dwells primarily on literary-cultural history as process and discipline. Here, the focus is on cross-cultural mimesis, the role of strategic imitation in the production of a distinct literature in modern Romania, and the shortcomings marking traditional literary historiography's handling of these issues. Part II examines the ethno-linguistic and territorial complexity of Romanian literatures or “Romanian literature in the plural.” Part III takes up the trans-systemic rise of Romanian, Jewish Romanian, and Romanian-European avant-garde and modernism, Socialist Realism, exile and émigré literature, and translation.
Dreamland Of Humanists
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Author : Emily J. Levine
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Dreamland Of Humanists written by Emily J. Levine and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Art categories.
Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twentieth-century pioneers in the humanities emerged. Working side by side, Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky developed new avenues in art history, cultural history, and philosophy, changing the course of cultural and intellectual history in Weimar Germany and throughout the world. In Dreamland of Humanists, Emily J. Levine considers not just these men, but the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form. Shedding light on the origins of their work on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Levine clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany’s intellectual world. By examining the role that context plays in our analysis of ideas, Levine confirms that great ideas—like great intellectuals—must come from somewhere.
Kurt Schwitters Merzbau
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Author : Elizabeth Burns Gamard
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2000-04
Kurt Schwitters Merzbau written by Elizabeth Burns Gamard 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 2000-04 with Architecture categories.
The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.
Social History Of Art Volume 4
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Author : Arnold Hauser
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-05
Social History Of Art Volume 4 written by Arnold Hauser and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-05 with Art categories.
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced. This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.
The Social History Of Art Naturalism Impressionism The Film Age
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Author : Arnold Hauser
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
The Social History Of Art Naturalism Impressionism The Film Age written by Arnold Hauser and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
Presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age.
The Cambridge Companion To American Literature Of The 1930s
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Author : William Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
The Cambridge Companion To American Literature Of The 1930s written by William Solomon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.