Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England
Автор: Bell Adrienne Baxter Название: George Inness and the Visionary Landscape ISBN: 0807600091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807600092 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 3548.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Illustrated volume which expands on previous studies of George Inness and the link between his spiritual beliefs and his art practices.
Автор: Stewart, Rachel Название: Town house in georgian london ISBN: 0300152779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300152777 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 4950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book takes a fresh look at a familiar building type - the town house in eighteenth-century London - and investigates the circumstances in which individuals made decisions about living in London, and particularly about their West End house. It uncovers what occupants of town houses thought about their property, why and how they chose or built it, paid for it, used it, decorated it and sold or bequeathed it, and what uses it had for them beyond simply accommodation. For the first time, this book takes as a starting point the houseowner, occupant or architect's client, and through extensive and original use of anecdotal evidence, opens up a wealth of unforeseen values, uses and connections attaching to the house. It offers a serious analysis of clients' wants and needs, and describes the house's function within and impact upon people's lives, concerns and aspirations.Stewart shows how the use of the house comprised much more than how life was lived in it on a day-to-day basis, or even how it served special occasions, and included how it functioned in the context of family relations, financial, legal and property transactions, and the market, as well as in the construction of personal identity. At the same time as exploring private perceptions and expectations, Stewart reveals the negative press attention the town house received in its own time. The house unsettled many eighteenth-century observers, and Stewart analyses an unprecedented range of evidence, to demonstrate how the house was associated with notions of transience, changeability, imperfection, luxury, and selfishness, which resulted in its characterization as inconsequential, inconstant, insubstantial, intemperate and ultimately emasculate.By stepping away from conventional tales of economics, materials, or style, and into the previously unexplored world of the houseowner, the book offers an entirely original reading of a familiar building.
Описание: "Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real," using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations in their work. Their fiction expresses rebellion against all the values of Western civilization--personal, sexual, familial, religious, moral, societal, and political. Yet even though they are anti-realistic, they do react to specific aspects of modern reality, such as the recurring promise and failure of social revolution. Ahearn, who finds this form at once exhilarating, immensely disturbing, vital, and subversive, explores the work of a wide variety of authors who have contributed to the genre from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the appearance of visionary writing in the work of William Blake, Ahearn traces the development of the form in texts by widely scattered authors writing in French, German, and English. He includes Novalis, Lautreamont, Breton, William Burroughs, and contemporary feminists Monique Wittig and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. Quoting liberally from these authors, Ahearn summarizes the works and places them in context. General readers, as well as those who have studied these authors, will find this book an extraordinarily interesting tour of this little recognized and frequently misunderstood genre.
Автор: Bowett Название: Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740 ISBN: 1851495843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851495849 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 8250.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Describes the technical and stylistic development of English furniture in the early Georgian era. This book discusses both stylistic influences and the technical advances in furniture making, and offers a chronology drawn from dated examples. It is suitable for both furniture scholars and specialists and for antiques enthusiasts in general.
Автор: Bills Название: G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary ISBN: 0300142579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300142570 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 6600.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was an experimenter throughout his seventy-year career. This illustrated book encompasses the work of his career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 to his most iconic work, "Hope", and the almost abstract painting, "Sower of the Systems".
Автор: Kenneth Frampton Название: Le Corbusier: Architect and Visionary (World of Art) ISBN: 0500203415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500203415 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 1477.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themeshis perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseille; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925 with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order. The distinguished critic and historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all these facets of his artistic and philosophical worldview in the light of recent discoveries, and presents us with a Le Corbusier for the twenty-first century. 200 b/w illustrations.
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