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Barcelona and Modernity
Catalogus van een tentoonstelling van werk van Catalaanse kunstenaars.
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Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096-1291
This volume examines the early growth of Barcelona and the formation of its ruling classes. The city did not at first grow because of overseas trade but because of market-oriented agriculture and tribute from Islamic Spain. Only after a difficult adjustment did the city develop the commercial foundations which would later ensure its prosperity. Barcelona's patriciate rose to prominence during the second stage of growth, its rise forming part of a profound restructuring of territorial power in response to the 'feudal crisis' that challenged traditional authority throughout Catalonia. Patrician families did not model themselves after noble patrilineages, but forged marital alliances in which the wife's dowry played a fundamental role. In this new book the family structure of the patriciate receives close examination and many traditional assumptions about the nature of Mediterranean towns are challenged.
American Dreamer
The American architect R. Buckminster Fuller was one of the most imaginative technological innovators of his age as a designer, engineer, mathematician, and social visionary. Eastham takes a look at the artistic applications of Fullers work.
Gaudí
A complete photographic anthology of Gaudi ́s work in a large format book designed by America Sanchez, which includes a meticulous selection of images where technical quality and aesthetics are combined. This book brings together twelve years of photographic works dedicated to the architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
5000 Years of Tiles
A comprehensive, full-color exploration of tile art and production worldwide, from earliest times to the present day. The book is both an authoritative work of reference and a visual delight, ranging from ancient Greece, where the first fired roof tiles date from as early as the third millennium BC, to twentieth-century Mexico. Along the way we encounter stunning examples of the tiler's art: the enormous English medieval floor pavements from Byland Abbey and Clarendon Palace; figural tiles from China, intended to adorn roofs and ward off evil; the famous Iznik tiles from the Islamic world, with their richly decorative patterns; the highly stylised ceramic tiles of the Arts and Crafts movemen...
Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980s and early 1990s was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shake...
Gaudí
A book that brings together all the work of Gaudí: from his early works to the later creations of his mature period. The writer Joan Bassegoda reveals to us in his text “The secret of Gaudí” and provides us with the keys to each architectural monument. It includes drawings of the buildings and a visual chronology of the architect’s life.
La Pedrera
Casa Milà, known popularly as “La Pedrera”, the quarry, was a misunderstood building and the object of ridicule of Gaudí’s contemporaries. Today, however, this work by Antoni Gaudí arouses the admiration of experts and laymen alike. Monographic work, with fold-out panoramic views of the building’s most outstanding parts. Introductory text by Josep M. Carandell.
