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The Caryatids

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345512715
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Caryatids written by Bruce Sterling and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time traveler. Now, with The Caryatids, Sterling has written a stunning testament of faith in the power of human intellect, creativity, and spirit to overcome any obstacle–even the obstacles we carry inside ourselves. The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population. Products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mother, and–according to some–monsters themselves, are the Caryatids: the four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius and wanted war criminal now ensconced, safely beyond extradition, on an orbiting space station. Radmila is a Dispensation star determined to forget her past by building a glittering, impregnable future. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaiming their home, the Croatian island of Mljet, from catastrophic pollution. Sonja is a medical specialist in China renowned for selflessly risking herself to help others. And Biserka is a one-woman terrorist network. The four “sisters” are united only by their hatred for their “mother”–and for one another. When evidence surfaces of a coming environmental cataclysm, the Dispensation sends its greatest statesman–or salesman–John Montgomery Montalban, husband of Radmila, and lover of Vera and Sonja, to gather the Caryatids together in an audacious plan to save the world.

The Hall of Singing Caryatids

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811219426
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Hall of Singing Caryatids written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture

Author : Ian Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023888
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture written by Ian Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.

Understanding Isak Dinesen

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034282
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Isak Dinesen written by Susan Brantly and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadows on the Grass, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, and Ehrengard, Brantly explores the clues, details, and subplots in texts that critics often describe as puzzles and labyrinths. Brantly reveals the thought and care that Dinesen devoted to the construction of her stories, her expansive knowledge of world literature, and the great pleasure awaiting readers as they unravel the mysteries embedded in her texts."--BOOK JACKET.

The Dancing Column

Author : Joseph Rykwert
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681018
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Column written by Joseph Rykwert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century. THE DANCING COLUMN is his most controversial and challenging work to date. A decade in preparation, it is a deeply erudite, clearly written, and wide-ranging deconstruction of the system of column and beam known as the "orders of architecture". Rykwert traces the analogy between columns and/or buildings and the human body. 315 illustrations.

Power and Place

Author : Gregory Stevenson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880393
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Power and Place written by Gregory Stevenson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and historical research is used to illuminate the meaning and function of temples in both Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures. This evidence is then brought into a dialogue with a literary analysis of how the temple functions as a symbol in Revelation.

Pausanias's Description of Greece

Author : Pausanias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pausanias's Description of Greece written by Pausanias and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pantheon

Author : William Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010192
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Pantheon written by William Lloyd MacDonald and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated book, MacDonald analyzes the original design and construction of one of the grand architectural statements of all ages, discusses the technology that made it possible, and explores its metaphorical meaning.

A Handbook of Ornament

Author : Franz Sales Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Ornament written by Franz Sales Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serial Girls

Author : Martine Delvaux
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771131861
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Serial Girls written by Martine Delvaux and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls. On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller Girls to Barbie dolls, Playboy bunnies to Pussy Riot, Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. Delvaux draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation.

Death of an Elgin Marble

Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1472105141
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Death of an Elgin Marble written by David Dickinson and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum in Bloomsbury is home to one of the Caryatids, a statue of a maiden that acted as one of the six columns in a temple which stood on the Acropolis in ancient Athens. Lord Elgin had brought her to London in the nineteenth century, and even though now she was over 2,300 years old, she was still rather beautiful - and desirable. Which is why Lord Francis Powerscourt finds himself summoned by the British Museum to attend a most urgent matter. The Caryatid has been stolen and an inferior copy left in her place. Powerscourt agrees to handle the case discreetly - but then comes the first death: an employee of the British Museum is pushed under a rush hour train before he and the police can question him. What had he known about the statue's disappearance? And who would want such a priceless object? Powerscourt and his friend Johnny Fitzgerald undertake a mission that takes them deep into the heart of London's Greek community and the upper echelons of English society to uncover the bizarre truth of the vanishing lady...

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.

Author : William A. P. Childs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400890519
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. written by William A. P. Childs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.

Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture

Author : Deborah Lewittes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351124366
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Berthold Lubetkin’s Highpoint II and the Jewish Contribution to Modern English Architecture written by Deborah Lewittes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called ‘revolutionary’. Three years later, Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II felt very different, and the sense that the ideals of modernism had been abandoned seemed hard to dispute. Had modern architecture failed to take root in England? This book challenges the belief that English architecture was on hiatus during the 1930s. Using Highpoint II as a springboard, Deborah Lewittes takes us on a journey through the defining moments of modern English architecture – the ‘high points’ of the period surrounding Highpoint II. Drawing on Lubetkin’s work and his writings, the book argues that he advanced influential, lasting theories which were rooted in his design for Highpoint II. Lubetkin’s work is explored within the context of wider Jewish emigration to London during the interwar years as well as the anti-Semitism that pervaded Britain during the 1930s. As Lewittes demonstrates, this decade was anything but quiet. Providing a new perspective on twentieth-century English architecture, this book is of interest to students and scholars in architectural history, urban studies, Jewish studies, and related fields.

The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Author : John H. Dryfhout
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657095
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens written by John H. Dryfhout and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated catalogue raisonné of one of the most important figures in American sculpture.

Kevin R. Brine

Author : Kevin R. Brine
Publisher : Artemis IV LLC
ISBN 13 : 0977154408
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Kevin R. Brine written by Kevin R. Brine and published by Artemis IV LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kevin R. Brine is represented by Jason McCoy, Inc"--T.p. verso.

The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

Author : Ittai Weinryb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316539024
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages written by Ittai Weinryb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural responses to large scale bronzes in the Middle Ages. Starting with mining, smelting, and the production of alloys, and ending with automata, water clocks and fountains, the book uncovers networks of meaning around which bronze sculptures were produced and consumed. The book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of metalwork in the Middle Ages and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly, presenting an understudied body of work to reconsider what the materials and techniques embodied in public monuments meant to the medieval spectator.

Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze

Author : Claire Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317133382
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze written by Claire Raymond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier compositions, Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of these late pieces, most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a Temple. Raymond shows that through her use of diazotype, a medium that breaks down when exposed to light, Woodman created art that is both supremely evocative aesthetically and inherently unstable physically. Woodman, Raymond contends, was imaginatively responding to the end of the durable image, a historical reality acknowledged in the way her work plays the ephemeral and evanescent against the monumental and enduring. Raymond focuses on the theoretical and the curatorial issues surrounding Woodman's diazotypes, a thematic and practical distress that haunts much of her later art, especially the artist's book and photo series Some Disordered Interior Geometries and Portrait of a Reputation. Rather than conceiving of Woodman herself as fragile, an artist chronicling and seeming to yearn for her own disappearance, Raymond juxtaposes Woodman's career-spanning documentation of her own image against other post-war witnesses of trauma - an artist standing in the museum ruins where she emerges most distinctly as a figure of postmodernity.