Visionary Fictions - Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age
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.
Описание: The focus of the first volume of 'Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist' was on the cataclysmic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book takes up the story in November 1918, when the satirist responded to the creation of the new republics with a defiant hope, invoking international law against the dual threat of reactionary politics and irresponsible media. While contemporaries such as Walter Benjamin regarded Kraus as a heroically isolated figure, this book places him within a dynamic field of cultural production, highlighting the court cases he pursued with his lawyer Oskar Samek and the theatrical projects that earned him the friendship of Bertholt Brecht. The legend that the satirist responded to Hitler's seizure of power with stunned silence is refuted in the final section of the book, 'Into the Third Reich', which highlights his analysis of 'creeping fascism' and of the swastika as the 'twisted cross' of politicised religiosity. His career culminated in 'Dritte Walpurgisnacht', an analysis of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential. Timms argues that Kraus's lifelong critique of the media, combining Orwell's political radicalism with Joyce's linguistic playfulness, incisively anticipates the propaganda techniques of our own age. 'Edward Timms meticulously interprets this major writer's most complex period of literary, cultural and political activity, providing what amounts to an entire cultural history of the period.' Professor Gilbert Carr, Trinity College Dublin Edward Timms is Research Professor in History at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex and a Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He has a special interest in Austrian-Jewish cultural history and is best known for his earlier volume 'Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna' (1986). In 2002 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for History of the Social Sciences and in 2005 he was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
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.
Автор: Lukacher, Brian Название: Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England ISBN: 0500342210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500342213 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 6600.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Joseph Gandy dreams of being a great architect were frustrated, and his fame rests on the imaginative power of his unrealized projects, on his superbly imagined reconstruction of Greek and Roman buildings and on the drawings in which he brought Sir John Soanes most extravagant ideas to vivid life. This book deals with his life and work.
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