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Author : David King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam ;Unbuilt Adam written by David King and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Neden King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781135142445
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Unbuilt Adam written by David Neden King and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135142491
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam written by David King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.
Author : David Neden King
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam written by David Neden King and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the architectural and decorative work executed from the designs of Robert Adams, and those in partnership with his brother James. The designs featured in this book are authenticated pieces and on display to the public.
Author : Peter De Bolla
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748001
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Education of the Eye written by Peter De Bolla and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
Author : Frances Sands
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784914630
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Robert Adam’s London written by Frances Sands and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones.
Author : Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892366361
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette written by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned plea for a Roman-Style eclecticism that draws freely on all artistic forms and traditions, Piranesi's Observations anticipates the contemporary debate between devotees of a rational, minimal architecture and advocates of an architecture rich in ornament and historical references."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Christian Welzbacher
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262347148
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Radical Fool of Capitalism written by Christian Welzbacher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is best remembered today as the founder of utilitarianism (a philosophy infamously abused by the Victorians) and the conceiver of the Panopticon, the circular prison house in which all prisoners could be seen by an unseen observer—later seized upon by Michel Foucault as the apotheosis of the neoliberal control society. In this volume in the Untimely Meditation series, Christian Welzbacher offers a new interpretation of Bentham, arguing that his “radical foolery” (paraphrasing Goethe's characterization of Bentham) actually embodied a social ethics that was new for its time and demands proper historical contextualization rather than retroactive analysis from the vantage point of late capitalism. Welzbacher provides just such an analysis, offering an account of the two great utilitarian projects that occupied Bentham all his life: the Panopticon and the Auto-Icon. Welzbacher rescues the Panopticon from the misapprehensions of Foucault, Orwell, and Lacan, arguing that Bentham saw the Panopticon as a pedagogical instrument incorporating the tenets of reason; construction and function, plan and influence, architecture and politics are brought into alignment. Bentham extolled the discovery in words that could easily be ascribed to Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, or any other modernist architect. The Auto-Icon expressed Bentham's theories that the dead should benefit later generations; these theories were effectively sealed when Bentham decided to have his body preserved and put on display. (It can be seen today in a cabinet at University College London.) He also donated his inner organs to science—a practice outlawed at the time—and posthumously stage-managed his own ceremonial autopsy. Welzbacher reveals a Bentham who raised questions that feel familiar and current, invoking topoi that would come to define the modern era and that reverberate to this day.
Author : James E. Kelly
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004325670
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Early Modern English Catholicism written by James E. Kelly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation is an interdisciplinary collection that brings together leading scholars in the field to demonstrate the significance of early modern English Catholicism as a contributor to national and European Counter-Reformation culture.
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053856
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
Author : Alistair Rowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bob the Roman written by Alistair Rowan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Adam
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156974
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam written by Robert Adam and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most celebrated books in architectural history, this volume consists of 106 illustrated plates that influenced generations of British and American architectural and furniture designs.
Author : Terry Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Georgian Parish Church written by Terry Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first substantial study of Georgian church architecture for over 40 years and is full of new discoveries and surprises. It consists of an overview of major developments during the period followed by six in-depth studies of important individual, though neglected, churches. These draw on contemporary records which reveal much about the designing and building of Anglican parish churches during the 18th century. Together they explore issues which go to the very heart of the Georgian church both as a building type and as a house of worship: the intimate links between design materials and technology as revealed by craftsmen's building accounts; bitter quarrels among disgruntled parish factions; the thorny question of 'restoring' medieval fabrics; controversies over imagery in Protestant churches; secularising design through the use of Palladian pattern books; dramatic reinterpretations of ancient pagan forms for new churches; and much more besides. The six episodes which form the heart of the book deal with St John, Westminster; St Paul, Sheffield; St Margaret, Westminster, Binley, Warwickshire, Ayot St Lawrence, Herts, and All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Author : Arthur Thomas Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794) written by Arthur Thomas Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Noy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893250
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk written by David Noy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.
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Total Pages : 2252 pages
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Scots and English Architectural History written by David Jones and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
