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Fountains
"Fountains: Splash and Spectacle celebrates the achievements in fountain design since the Renaissance, and explores the fountain's social significance and its underlying principles." "Abundant illustrations of works of art, historical and modern photographs, and architectural drawings feature fountains as symbols of power, structures created for pleasure and entertainment, incredible technological displays made for international expositions, and fountains as urban oases in cities throughout the United States and Europe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Fountains and Water Features
A key design element since the first gardens were tilled, water has been managed into a surprising range of styles — in symbolic and mythological themes, for private contemplation, and for large-scale displays of power and wealth. This book traces the history of fountains and describes key examples such as Moorish water gardens in Spain, Renaissance pleasure fountains, impressive schemes at Chatsworth and Vaux le Vicomte, and a wide range of contemporary cascades. More than 150 color illustrations depict these inspiring features.
Flume & Vortex
When, over a decade ago, two fountaineers lit the fuse to start their new father-and-son partnership, they had no idea of the magnitude of the explosion. Their chosen medium, water, was to prove as unpredictable as had their individual lives of high-octane adventure. To become fountaineers was an unusual choice, and their escapades with water have provided them with many excitements, yet as fountain-makers they have become important new members of a long and fascinating tradition. Water's therapeutic and decorative powers have been acknowledged and exploited since antiquity, but never more so than today. Harnessing the magical power of water has, by pure chance, become an enduring challenge ...
Jaume Plensa
The Barcelona artist Jaume Plensa is best-known for his spectacular Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago. Constructed between 1999 and 2004 with support from the Crown Foundation, this work features water cascading down two monumental towers, as well as video and lighting effects. Alternating images recorded on video by Plensa show the faces of 1,000 Chicagoans from all segments of society. Every 12 minutes these faces transform into gargoyles reminiscent of traditional fountains. Plensa's Crown Fountain, which swiftly became a popular public attraction, is comprehensively presented in this monograph, along with an extensive chronology of his multi-faceted oeuvre.
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
