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Survival Boogie Woogie. Neo-Japonisme, Architectural Photography & Abstraction
What links are there between Piet Mondrian’s unfinished work Victory Boogie Woogie (1942–4) and post-war Japanese and Japanese-style architectural photography? As far back as the mid-1950s, critics and photographers were inclined to link Mondrian’s painting with modern Japanese architecture and some historians were to go so far as to assert that Mondrian himself had been influenced by traditional Japanese architecture.Powerful associations such as these contributed to the coming together of Western and Japanese architectural modernity. They also underpinned the survival of Japonisme in architecture, or put another way, of the neo-Japonisme that emerged after the Second World War. However, while this kinship between Mondrian’s abstraction and the aesthetic of Japanese architecture is little apparent in architecture, it does show in architectural photography. This book, which takes a sidelong look at Mondrian, examines the works of the foremost among Japanese and American architectural photographers in an effort to interpret the dynamics of how the world of architecture was Japanized between 1945 and 1985.
Zen Paintings in Edo Japan (1600-1868)
In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750-1837). The free attitude emanating from their paintings is one of the qualities which distinguish Edo period Zen paintings from those of earlier periods. These paintings are part of a Zen ink painting tradition that began following the importation of Zen Buddhism from China at the beginning of ...
Public History
Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic preservation, in museums and archives, in government agencies, as consultants, as oral historians, or who manage crowdsourcing projects need very specific skills. This book links theory and practice and provides students and practitioners with the tools to do public history in a wide range of settings. The text engages throughout with key issues such as public participation, digital tools and media, and the internatio...
Japonisme i arquitectura a Catalunya
Aquest estudi desenvolupa un aspecte essencial —i, tanmateix, poc conegut— de l’impacte del japonisme a Catalunya: la seva incidència en l’arquitectura i els espais interiors de l’entorn del 1900. A partir de la bibliografia especialitzada i de l’anàlisi de fonts primàries, l’autor reconstrueix un fenomen que fou àmpliament difós a finals del vuit-cents a Occident, encara que n’hagin perviscut pocs testimonis, i recull la diversitat i la riquesa de propostes que van sorgir en l’obra de destacats arquitectes catalans: des del Pavelló Imperial Japonès de 1881 i la casa japonesa de l’Exposició Universal de 1888, fins a la Casa Bruno Cuadros de Josep Vilaseca, la Casa Vicens de Gaudí i la Fonda Espanya de Domènech i Montaner. Amb un plantejament inèdit de les relacions artístiques entre el Japó i Catalunya, aquest llibre revalora la significació del modernisme en la història de l’art universal i el paper capdavanter del nostre país en el progrés cultural d’aquella època.
Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City
Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. This volume makes the important theoretical work available for the first time in English, offering an interpretation as to how much and in what way his ‘essai’ may have influenced his later work. Dealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, La Construction des Villes shows Le Corbusier’s intellectual influences in the field of urbanism. Discontent that the script was not sufficiently avant-garde, he abandoned it soon after it was written in the early 20th century. It was only in the late 1970s that American historian H. Allen Brooks disc...
L’histoire de l’art et ses traductions
Le présent recueil explore l’influence du « presque » et de l’« autrement » de la traduction sur les développements de l’histoire de l’art, du XVIe siècle à son institutionnalisation au XIXe siècle, jusqu’à ses pratiques actuelles. Les rapports franco-allemands, dans la continuité des transferts culturels, et la question de la diffusion de la langue anglaise, dans le sillage de l’histoire globale de l’art, dominent l’actualité de la recherche dès lors qu’il s’agit de conjuguer histoire de l’art et traduction. Pourtant ce champ d’étude reste encore très largement à explorer et pourrait reconfigurer une certaine appréhension de l’histoire de l’art. ...
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Viollet-le-Duc
L'activité d'architecte-bâtisseur contemporain de Viollet-le-Duc est souvent occultée par son action de restaurateur du patrimoine médiéval. Les chantiers, les projets et les écrits à ce sujet sont pourtant prolifiques, ce qui justifie pleinement une réflexion renouvelée sur ses travaux. De ses chantiers à ses projets avortés, de ses théories à...
Fue ayer: Belchite. Un pueblo frente a la cuestión del pasado
Belchite, situado a pocos kilómetros de Zaragoza, ofrece un panorama casi único dentro de España: dos pueblos contiguos en el espacio, pero distanciados en el tiempo. De una parte, tenemos el pueblo viejo, resultado de una feroz batalla de la Guerra Civil y que se conserva en ruinas desde entonces. De otra, el pueblo nuevo, el pueblo de la reconstrucción y la posguerra, en el que continúan viviendo los belchitanos. Este juego de espejos, aún vigente, invita a reflexionar sobre la Guerra Civil; sin que por ello debamos olvidar que este pueblo mártir, destruido, conservado y reconstruido, ha de analizarse desde la perspectiva más amplia de las posguerras europeas del siglo XX. Traducción de Scheherezade Pinilla Cañadas. Coedición con Institución «Fernando el Católico»
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