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Author : Nathan Davis
Publisher : London, Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Ruined Cities Within Numidian and Carthaginian Territories written by Nathan Davis and published by London, Murray. This book was released on 1862 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899769
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book A Story of Ruins written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
Author : Charles Bucke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752333847
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities written by Charles Bucke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ruins of Ancient Cities by Charles Bucke
Author : Charles Bucke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities: Abydos-Memphis written by Charles Bucke and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Bucke
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465553487
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities With General and Particulr Accounts of Their Rise, Fall and Present Condition (Vol. I of II) written by Charles Bucke and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Haar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665648
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The City as Campus written by Sharon Haar and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social and design history of the urban campus.
Author : Nick Yablon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226946657
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Untimely Ruins written by Nick Yablon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city.
Author : Kyle H. Keimer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000773248
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Israelite World written by Kyle H. Keimer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel’s society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts. Driven by theoretically and methodologically informed discussions of the archaeology of the Iron Age Levant, the 47 chapters in The Ancient Israelite World provide foundational, accessible, and detailed studies in their respective topics. The volume considers the history of interpretation of ancient Israel, studies on various aspects of ancient Israel’s society and history, and avenues for present and future approaches to the ancient Israelite world. Accompanied by over 150 maps and figures, it allows the reader to gain an understanding of key issues that archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars have faced and are currently facing as they attempt to better understand ancient Israelite society. The Ancient Israelite World is an essential reference work for students and scholars of ancient Israel and its history, culture, and society, whether they are historians, archaeologists or biblical scholars.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : Penelope Dean
Publisher : episode publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789078525028
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Representations written by Penelope Dean and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136534636
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Iberian Cities written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century.
Author : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191641820
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Ancient Cities written by Greg Woolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. The ruins of many of them still enchant us. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages. It is a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. Its focus is on the ancient Mediterranean: Greeks and Romans at the centre, but Phoenicians and Etruscans, Persians, Gauls, and Egyptians all play a part. The story begins with the Greek discovery of much more ancient urban civilizations in Egypt and the Near East, and charts the gradual spread of urbanism to the Atlantic and then the North Sea in the centuries that followed. The ancient Mediterranean, where our story begins, was a harsh environment for urbanism. So how were cities first created, and then sustained for so long, in these apparently unpromising surroundings? How did they feed themselves, where did they find water and building materials, and what did they do with their waste and their dead? Why, in the end, did their rulers give up on them? And what it was like to inhabit urban worlds so unlike our own - cities plunged into darkness every night, cities dominated by the temples of the gods, cities of farmers, cities of slaves, cities of soldiers. Ultimately, the chief characters in the story are the cities themselves. Athens and Sparta, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Alexandria: cities that formed great families. Their story encompasses the history of the generations of people who built and inhabited them, whose short lives left behind monuments that have inspired city builders ever since - and whose ruins stand as stark reminders to the 21st century of the perils as well as the potential rewards of an urban existence.
Author : Karl D. Qualls
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801447624
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (476 download)
Download or read book From Ruins to Reconstruction written by Karl D. Qualls and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery "bests" the Stalinist center.
Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315522802
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648–1920 written by Deborah Simonton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact. This book concentrates on a period marked by passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional village life to new bourgeois and even individualistic urbanism. The volume employs a broad definition of catastrophe, as it examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes, both natural and human-made. Competing views of gender figure in the telling and retelling of these analyses: women as scapegoats, as vulnerable, as victims, even as cannibals or conversely as defenders, organizers of assistance, inspirers of men; and men in varied guises as protectors, governors and police, heroes, leaders, negotiators and honorable men. Gender is also deployed linguistically to feminize activities or even countries. Inevitably, however, these tragedies are mediated by myth and memory. They are not neutral events whose retelling is a simple narrative. Through a varied array of urban catastrophes, this book is a nuanced account that physically and metaphorically maps men and women into the urban landscape and the worlds of catastrophe.
Author : HENRY G. BOHNS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book HENRY G. BOHN'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHNS and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xiaoping Lin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833368
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Children of Marx and Coca-Cola written by Xiaoping Lin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author’s experience in Beijing and New York—global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chinese visual culture—this work situates selected artworks and films in the context of Chinese nationalism and post-socialism and against the background of the capitalist globalization that has so radically affected contemporary China. It juxtaposes and compares artists and independent filmmakers from a number of intertwined perspectives, particularly in their shared avant-garde postures and perceptions. Xiaoping Lin provides illuminating close readings of a variety of visual texts and artistic practices, including installation, performance, painting, photography, video, and film. Throughout he sustains a theoretical discussion of representative artworks and films and succeeds in delineating a variegated postsocialist cultural landscape saturated by market forces, confused values, and lost faith. This refreshing approach is due to Lin’s ability to tackle both Chinese art and cinema rigorously within a shared discursive space. He, for example, aptly conceptualizes a central thematic concern in both genres as "postsocialist trauma" aggravated by capitalist globalization. By thus focusing exclusively on the two parallel and often intersecting movements or phenomena in the visual arts, his work brings about a fruitful dialogue between the narrow field of traditional art history and visual studies more generally. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola will be a major contribution to China studies, art history, film studies, and cultural studies. Multiple audiences—specialists, teachers, and students in these disciplines, as well as general readers with an interest in contemporary Chinese society and culture—will find that this work fulfills an urgent need for sophisticated analysis of China’s cultural production as it assumes a key role in capitalist globalization.
Author : Daniel C. Peterson
Publisher : The Interpreter Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1518793304
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 16 (2015) written by Daniel C. Peterson and published by The Interpreter Foundation. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 16 of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: "Toward Ever More Intelligent Discipleship," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 1: Ignoring Inconvenient Evidence," "A Response to Denver Snuffer’s Essay on Plural Marriage, Adoption, and the Supposed Falling Away of the Church – Part 2: Facade or Reality?", "Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties," "The Prodigal’s Return to the Father: House of Glory and Rediscovery," "The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics: A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel," "The Doctrine of Resurrection in the Book of Mormon," "Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection," "Learning Nephi’s Language: Creating a Context for 1 Nephi 1:2," "The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical “Mesoamerican” Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon," "John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Prophet: Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon," "A Treasure Trove of Questions," "The Theory of Evolution is Compatible with Both Belief and Unbelief in a Supreme Being."
