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Writing Art And Architecture
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Author : Andrew Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: re.press
Release Date : 2010-10
Writing Art And Architecture written by Andrew Benjamin and has been published by re.press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Architecture categories.
In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others.In Benjamin¿s hands, criticism is bound up with judgment. Objects of criticism always become more than mere documents. These essays dissolve the prejudices that have determined our relation to aesthetic objects and to thought, releasing in their very care and attentiveness to the `objects themselves¿ the unexpected potentialities such objects harbour. In his sensitivity to what he calls `the particularity of material events¿, Benjamin¿s writing comes to exemplify new possibilities for the contemporary practice of criticism itself.These essays are a major contribution to critical thought about art and architecture today, and a genuine work of what Benjamin himself identifies as a `materialist aesthetics¿.
Writing About Architecture
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Author : Alexandra Lange
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Writing About Architecture written by Alexandra Lange and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Architecture categories.
Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with new eyes. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer's strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer. This important addition to the Architecture Briefs series is based on the author's design writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Lange also writes a popular online column for Design Observer and has written for Dwell, Metropolis, New York magazine, and The New York Times. Writing About Architecture includes analysis of critical writings by Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Welcome To The Hotel Architecture
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Author : Roger Connah
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1998
Welcome To The Hotel Architecture written by Roger Connah and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
Departing from conventional genres of architectural writing, Roger Connah presents an original and wry reflection on the fickle but exciting role that language, semantics, and philosophy have played this century in relation to architecture. Welcome to The Hotel Architecture is a five-part "anti-epic" poem on the culture of architecture - its tribes and inventions, the spectacular and vernacular, and the processes through which names and movements are secured, erased, forgotten, and manipulated.
Seventeenth Century Art Architecture
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Author : Ann Sutherland Harris
language : en
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Seventeenth Century Art Architecture written by Ann Sutherland Harris and has been published by Laurence King Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.
Louise Bourgeois Spider
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Author : Mieke Bal
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-06-29
Louise Bourgeois Spider written by Mieke Bal 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 2001-06-29 with Art categories.
The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation Spider (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits both no genre and all of them—architecture, sculpture, installation. Its contents and associations evoke social issues without being reducible to any one of them. Here, literary critic and theorist Mieke Bal presents the work as a theoretical object, one that can teach us how to think, speak, and write about art. Known for her commentary on the issue of temporality in art, Bal argues that art must be understood in relationship to the present time of viewing as opposed to the less-immediate contexts of what has preceded the viewing, such as the historical past of influences and art movements, biography and interpretation. In ten short chapters, or "takes," Bal demonstrates that the closer the engagement with the work of art, the more adequate the result of the analysis. She also confronts issues of biography and autobiography—key themes in Bourgeois's work—and evaluates the consequences of "ahistorical" experiences for art criticism, drawing on diverse sources such as Bernini and Benjamin, Homer and Eisenstein. This short, beautiful book offers both a theoretical model for analyzing art "out of context" and a meditation on a key work by one of the most engaging artists of our era.
Art And Architecture
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Author : Stewart Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Art And Architecture written by Stewart Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture, Medieval categories.
An insight into the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Discover how the great cathedrals, castles, manor houses, tombs, monuments and monasteries were constructed. Find out how stained glass windows were made and the stories they told. Read about the different ways people illustrated manuscripts and books. Find out when painting became more realistic, and trace the changes and movements that influenced art and architecture in medieval times. (Back cover).
Writing Architecture
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Author : Roger Connah
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1989
Writing Architecture written by Roger Connah and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architecture categories.
In this tantalizing work, Roger Connah explores the peculiar odyssey of twentieth-century architecture through the buildings and writings of Finlands iconoclastic architect, Reima Pietila. Among architects, Pietila is a cult figure, a respected but often misunderstood outsider and "arctic shaman," only recently granted the international acclaim and appreciation that are his due. Pietila's complex, geomorphic structures have been compared to the work of Gaudi and Bruce Goff and variously labeled surrealistic, romantic, or expressionistic. Writing Architecture positions Pietila at the heart of contemporary architectural debates - the carnival of conflicting isms, modern post-modern, post-structuralist, deconstructive. From his relative isolation in Helsinki, he is thrust into the community of this century's most revolutionary artists and thinkers, including Wittgenstein, Einstein, Beckett, Borges, Magritte, and McLuhan. Through Pietila Connah reflects on architecture's progress and excess in this century, tracing a path through multiple meanings and intellectual adventures. More metaphysical inquiry than conventional monograph, this extraordinary study draws from various sources to "read" architecture as Pietila does, as a form of cultural composition in which all theory, literature, music, art, or natural phenomena are potential sources for architectural meaning. Like the existential detective in the pulp crime novels on Fantomas, the elegant French philosopher-thief, Connah offers fragmentary clues, contradictory solutions, and digressive speculations on the particular mystery, misery, and miracle that is modern architecture, but wisely leaves the final verdict up to his discerning readers. Roger Connah's extensive collaboration with Reima Pietila has provided him with a unique opportunity to trace the architect's inimitable approach to architecture and culture. Since 1986 the author has been living in India working as a freelance writer; he is visiting Professor at The National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and The Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi.
Art Et Architecture Au Canada
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Author : Loren Ruth Lerner
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Art Et Architecture Au Canada written by Loren Ruth Lerner and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Architecture categories.
Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.
Writing Architecture
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Author : Carter Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-21
Writing Architecture written by Carter Wiseman and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-21 with Architecture categories.
Writing Architecture considers the process, methods, and value of architecture writing based on Wiseman’s 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and teaching young architects how to write. This book creatively tackles a problematic issue that Wiseman considers crucial to successful architecture writing: clarity of thinking and expression. He argues that because we live our lives within the built environment, architecture is the most comprehensive and complex of all art forms. Written as a primer for both college-level students and practitioners, Writing Architecture acknowledges and explores the boundaries between different techniques of architecture writing from myriad perspectives and purposes. Using excerpts from writers in different genres and from different historical periods, Wiseman offers a unique and authoritative perspective on the comprehensible writing skills needed for success.
The Architecture Of Art History
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Author : Mark Crinson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-13
The Architecture Of Art History written by Mark Crinson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-13 with Architecture categories.
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture – sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all – art history – examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century – which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Wölfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.