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The Power of Women
Eve tempting Adam with the apple, Delilah shearing Samson's hair, Phyllis riding the philosopher Aristotle like a horse—from the patristic period through the sixteenth century, examples of disorderly women such as these from the Bible, antiquity, and romance were cited to prove beyond any doubt that women exercise a power that no man, however superior his moral and physical qualities, can resist. An example of Latin topica, loci, or loci communes central to ancient rhetoric and medieval literature, the Power of Women topos illustrated how a woman could dominate, humiliate, and even destroy the man who loved her too well. Two or more infamous female figures were brought together to exemplif...
Das Bildgedächtnis der Schweiz
Die Geschichte der Schweiz aus der Perspektive der erhaltenen Bilder und Denkmäler Das Buch rekonstruiert ein wichtiges editorisches Ereignis der Zürcher Aufklärung. In den Jahren zwischen 1773 und 1783 erschien in 12 Teilen mit insgesamt 207 Seiten Text und 276 Seiten Abbildungen eine Schriftenreihe unter dem Titel: Merckwürdige iberbleibsel von Alterthümmeren an verschiedenen Orthen der Eydtgenosschafft. Ihr Herausgeber war der Ingenieur und Kartograph Johannes Müller (1733'1816), während die Texte von dem evangelischen Geistlichen David von Moos (1729'1786) stammten. Beide hatten sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Geschichte der Schweiz aus der Perspektive der erhalte...
Human-Built World
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology"...
Eyes that Saw
With contributions by Stan Allen, David Allin, Eve Blau, Beatriz Colomina, Valéry Didelon, Elizabeth Diller, Peter Fischli, Dan Graham, Neil Levine, Mary McLeod, Rafael Moneo, Stanislaus von Moos, David M. Schwarz, Denise Scott Brown, Katherine Smith, Martino Stierli, Karin Theunissen, and Robert Venturi. Preface by Robert A.M. Stern.
