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Cover of Corn Palaces and Butter Queens

Corn Palaces and Butter Queens

A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture

by Pamela H. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

Teddy Roosevelt’s head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks—with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the...
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A Story of Ruins

Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

by Wu Hung
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous...
Cover of Paolo Portoghesi. The Architecture of Listening
by Petra Bernitsa
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016

Argan wrote: “Portoghesi's historical method does not consist in the relatively easy task of discovering Palladio in Aalto, or Borromini in Wright, but in the inverse and more difficult operation of discovering Aalto in Palladio and Wright in Borromini, in demonstrating that, given Palladio and...
Cover of Function and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

The introduction of iron – and later steel – construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the...
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Architecture in Abjection

Bodies, Spaces and their Relations

by Zuzana Kovar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew. Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture – which presents the body as subject and space as object – it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages...
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Art in England

The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600

by Sara N. James
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive,...
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Creative Ecologies

Theorizing the Practice of Architecture

by Hélène Frichot
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural...
Cover of Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
by Adam Sharr
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval...
Cover of L'Art gothique
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Développé à travers l’Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l’art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses racines dans la puissante architecture des cathédrales du nord de la France. Délaissant la rondeur romane, les architectes commencèrent à utiliser les arcs-boutants et les voûtes en berceau...
Cover of Art Deco Mailboxes: An Illustrated Design History
by Karen Greene, Lynne Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014

A great gift book for lovers of unsung urban decorative art and unique architectural details. Mailboxes and their chutes were once as essential to the operation of any major hotel, office, civic, or residential building as the front door. In time they developed a decorative role, in a range...
Cover of Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

Vitruvius was not a great literary personage, ambitious as he was to appear in that character. As Professor Morgan has aptly said, "he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task." In his hand the measuring-rod was a far mightier implement than the pen....
Cover of Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture
by Donald Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012

"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." — New York Times Book Review Despite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail...
Cover of Asheville's Historic Architecture
by Richard Hansley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Asheville, known for its architectural diversity and intriguing Art Deco style, has been fortunate in attracting brilliant architects who, with imaginative foresight and design expertise, have created lasting testaments in brick and stone. Local architectural enthusiast Richard Hansley recounts the history...
Cover of Art Deco of the Palm Beaches
by Sharon Koskoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007

Art Deco design is a jazzy celebration of the Machine Age, mass production, geometry, and the straight line. In Palm Beach County, sleek themes are seen representing tropical, nautical, masculine, and stylized motifs that reflect speed and technology. Elements include eyebrows, flat roofs, porthole windows,...
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