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Piranesi Unbound
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Piranesi Unbound

  • Categories: Art

Layers / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Lost and found / by Carolyn Yerkes -- Pages / by Carolyn Yerkes -- Dedicated and sent / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Bound / by Heather Hyde Minor -- Sold / by Carolyn Yerkes.

Piranesi's Lost Words
  • Language: en

Piranesi's Lost Words

Examines the writings of eighteenth-century Italian engraver and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome

Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes.

The Serpent and the Stylus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Serpent and the Stylus

  • Categories: Art

New essays that shed light on the shadowy figure of Piranesi

Architecture and Statecraft
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Architecture and Statecraft

Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital.

The Art of Building in the Classical World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

The Art of Building in the Classical World

  • Categories: Art

This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.

Giuliano Da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Giuliano Da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome

The architect as bookmaker -- What is antique? -- Ornament and abstraction -- Ruins and representation -- Research, reconstruction and design -- Epilogue : Rome remade.

Ugly Feelings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Ugly Feelings

Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the...

Making Modern Paris
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Making Modern Paris

Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

Book History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Book History

Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.