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Braque
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau was a world-wide artistic fashion that deeply affected the whole spectrum of the arts in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the early years of this century. It sought to finalise the break with the academicism of traditional art, to raise the status of design and to place art within the realm of daily life. In doing so it provided many of the prototypes for the art of an industrial society, and it was the springboard for some of the most important artistic movements in the twentieth century, such as Expressionism, Futurism and the International Style in architecture. -- from dust jacket.
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.
Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture
The first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project. The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of the Radical Architecture that from the avant-garde experiments of the origins recovers creative processes and iconographic fragments while nullifying the original ideological and political values. On the other hand, we see social protests in defense of fundamental rights of democracy, as in 1968. ...
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectorsâ€...
Art Nouveau
This book gives an account of Art Nouveau as a world spanning phenomenon, as well as biographies of its leading figures. It includes over 1000 illustrations of paintings, sculpture, architecture, textiles, glassware and jewellery
La aportación de la mujer en la construcción, deconstrucción y redefinición del Humanismo
Este volumen titulado recoge las aportaciones de un conjunto de especialistas que con sus contribuciones analizan textos escritos por y sobre mujeres a lo largo de la historia. De este modo, abarcan un amplio repertorio de géneros y temas centrados siempre en el contexto italiano y tomando como referencia el Humanismo y su repercusión en la historia de la literatura transalpina. Por un lado, y dado que la producción relacionada con el género femenino ha sido silenciada y marginada en los estudios literarios, esta obra colectiva trata de demostrar y restituir el valor histórico y cultural que las escritoras y los personajes femeninos se merecen. Por otra parte, los estudios que forman este volumen buscan visibilizar la aportación de estos a la reconstrucción del Humanismo, asà como las huellas de este periodo perceptibles en obras y escritoras pertenecientes a otras épocas. De la poesÃa renacentista escrita por mujeres a la narrativa más contemporánea, del teatro feminista del siglo XX a los tratados de farmacologÃa y cosmética del siglo XVI, todos los ensayos aquà recogidos manifiestan un rigor y un interés extraordinarios.
Marotta
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Art Nouveau
First published in 1998. Design reform in the fields of architecture and the decorative or applied arts became objectified through writings published during the period of 1885 to 1910. This investigation includes, but is not limited to, Art Nouveau in France and Belgium, and the arts and crafts movement in England and the United States. Even though the similar processes of creativity and shared goals of Art Nouveau and the arts and crafts movement have long been recognized, attempts to explore their origins and their points of interrelation with the broader scope of art history have been largely unsuccessful—until now.
