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Cover of Law as Art
by Gary P. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Law as Art presents a radical new legal theory, the Law as Art Hypothesis, which conceives law, not as a system of rules, but as a distinctive kind of art work. Law is differentiated as art by the Law as Compound Artistic Type Hypothesis, which uses the heuristic metaphor of the Operatic Music Drama,...
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The Politics of Architecture

A history of modern architecture in Britain

by Anthony Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970

The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints. The battle is by no means over; indeed it is spreading to wider issues and outside what was previously a largely professional...
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Rolland Golden

Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter

by Rolland Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014

In the early twentieth century, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one...
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Writing Back to Modern Art

After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

by Jonathan Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since...
Cover of Central Asian Art
by Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoly Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilisations and are pository of...
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Toledo Cathedral

Building Histories in Medieval Castile

by Tom Nickson
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth...
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Architecture of the Sacred

Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium

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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014

In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative...
Cover of Goodman for Architects
by Remei Capdevila-Werning
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman’s philosophy...
Cover of Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013

2,200 illustrations from 19th-century archive include tombs, bridges, temples, mythological and religious figures, Egyptian painting, Greek sculpture, much more.
Cover of Seven Little Known Birds of the Inner Eye
by Mulk Raj Anand
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009

In this fascinating, informal approach to art appreciation, an eminent Indian scholar reveals the crucial difference between merely looking at and really seeing painting and sculpture, drawing and architecture. And to the open-minded and sensitive observer, he shows how simple perceptions can be transmuted...
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Islamic Architecture on the Move

Motion and Modernity

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. This book brings together scholars from architectural...
Cover of Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford. Trente ans de correspondance 1926-1959
by Lewis Mumford, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le célèbre architecte et théoricien de l’architecture organique, et l’historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’histoire de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, comme en témoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu’ils...
Cover of The Design Mind
by Michael Gronnerud
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

The Design Mind is an encompassing look into Deep Design and the human psychology surrounding it. Our modern obsession with making things stems from our ancient past and of figuring things out to solve problems. This is a journey within that history as we look for the origins of design and discover...
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Architecture and Resilience

Interdisciplinary Dialogues

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. This volume takes resilience...
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