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Book Synopsis Histories of the Immediate Present by : Anthony Vidler
Download or read book Histories of the Immediate Present written by Anthony Vidler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism. Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contemporary concerns. In Histories of the Immediate Present, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the “Renaissance modernism” of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti. Vidler's investigation demonstrates the inevitable collusion between history and design that pervades all modern architectural discourse—and has given rise to some of the most interesting architectual experiments of the postwar period.
Download or read book Writting of the Walls written by Vidler and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. The author redefines the relationship between architecture and society during the period and looks at the reactions of contemporary architects.
Book Synopsis Histories of the Immediate Present Inventing Architectural Modernism, 1930-1975 by : Anthony Vidler
Download or read book Histories of the Immediate Present Inventing Architectural Modernism, 1930-1975 written by Anthony Vidler and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First principles of modern history, 1815-1879, from the English point of view by : T S. Taylor
Download or read book First principles of modern history, 1815-1879, from the English point of view written by T S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Modern Philosophy by : Richard Falckenberg
Download or read book History of Modern Philosophy written by Richard Falckenberg and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Modern Painting by : Richard Muther
Download or read book The History of Modern Painting written by Richard Muther and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order by : Carroll William Westfall
Download or read book Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order written by Carroll William Westfall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative traces two models for the practice of architecture. One follows the ancient model in which the architect renders his service to serve the interests of others; it survives and is dominant in modernism. The other, first formulated in the fifteenth century by Leon Battista Alberti, has the architect use his talent in coordination with others to contribute to the common good of a republican civil order that seeks to protect its own liberty and that of its citizens. Palladio practiced this way, and so did Thomas Jefferson when he founded a uniquely American architecture, the counterpart to the nation’s founding. This narrative gives particular emphasis to the contrasting developments in architecture on the opposite sides of the English Channel. The book presents the value for clients and architects today and in the future of drawing on history and tradition. It stresses the importance, indeed, the urgency, of restoring traditional practices so that we can build just, beautiful, and sustainable cities and rural districts that will once again assist citizens in living not only abundantly but also well as they pursue their happiness.
Book Synopsis An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present by :
Download or read book An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First Principles of English History by : T. S. Taylor
Download or read book First Principles of English History written by T. S. Taylor and published by London : Relfe, Brothers. This book was released on 1877 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Histories of Heinrich Schütz by : Bettina Varwig
Download or read book Histories of Heinrich Schütz written by Bettina Varwig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with broader historical themes, including the effects of the Thirty Years' War, contemporary meanings of classical mythology, Lutheran attitudes to death and the afterlife as well as shifting conceptions of time and history in light of early modern scientific advances. These original seventeenth-century circumstances are treated in counterpoint with Schütz's fascinating later reinvention in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German musical culture, providing a new kind of musicological writing that interweaves layers of historical inquiry from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Book Synopsis History of England by : James Anthony Froude
Download or read book History of England written by James Anthony Froude and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Book Synopsis History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude, M. A by :
Download or read book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude, M. A written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of English Literature: Modern times (1660-1911) by Louis Cazamian, translated from the French by W. D. MacInnes ... and the author by : Émile Legouis
Download or read book A History of English Literature: Modern times (1660-1911) by Louis Cazamian, translated from the French by W. D. MacInnes ... and the author written by Émile Legouis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stages of History by : Phyllis Rackin
Download or read book Stages of History written by Phyllis Rackin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance historiography that are also areas of concern in recent criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history in Shakespeare's theater participated--and its representation in subsequent criticism still participates--in the contests between opposed theories of history and between the different ideological interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time; but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences came together to watch common players enact the roles of their social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order. Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the contradictions of Elizabethan culture.
Book Synopsis Papers of the American Society of Church History by : American Society of Church History
Download or read book Papers of the American Society of Church History written by American Society of Church History and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports.
