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Eastern Turkey
An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1989
Civilizations of great diversity have succeeded each other or co-existed in Eastern Turkey, and most of them have left monuments of high quality. Hittite, Urartian, Hellenistic, Roman, Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Arab, Seljuk and Ottoman, their remains are all represented in the region. These include...
Counterpoints
Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time...
The Column of Marcus Aurelius
The Genesis and Meaning of a Roman Imperial Monument
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan. In The Column of Marcus Aurelius, Martin Beckmann makes a thorough study of the form, content, and meaning...
Castles
Their Construction and History
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile rivers. The medieval castle, with its strategic,...
Soviet Salvage
Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” mediums and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.
Applying anthropological models borrowed from...
Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt
The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (c.2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an interdisciplinary approach to the material - drawing on methods from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, including...
Child and Adolescent Therapy
Science and Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of therapy
Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art, Second Edition relies on both psychotherapy research and clinical expertise to create a comprehensive guide to evidence-based practice for providers of child and adolescent therapy....
Overlooking the Visual
Demystifying the Art of Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that...
Le Croire et le voir de Roland Recht
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Centré sur les développements de l'art des cathédrales, le livre de Roland Recht, Le Croire et le voir. L'art des cathédrales (XIIe-XVe s.), Gallimard, Paris, 1999, analyse les pouvoirs que le christianisme et l'Église...
Aesthetics Equals Politics
New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.
These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial,...
by Dorian Borbonus
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku sects...
by Jules Gailhabaud
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This lavish archive of exquisite engravings and designs--originally created in the mid-nineteenth century for the professional artist and architect--contains some 200 splendid illustrations, expertly adapted from decorative as well as utilitarian features of medieval cathedrals, churches, tombs, houses,...
The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice
Established and Emerging Trends
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice provides an overview of established and emerging trends in architecture practice. Contributions of the latest research from international experts examine external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture. Each chapter...