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Book Synopsis The Genius of Robert Adam by : Eileen Harris
Download or read book The Genius of Robert Adam written by Eileen Harris and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of Adam's enormous body of work was in pre-existing houses; the challenges of remodelling stimulated his inventive imagination, and he became a master at turning awkward situations to advantage. Harris has mined archival sources, including the large collection of drawings from the Adam office at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, and fully examined the houses themselves to discover exactly what Adam did in each project and why. Taking into account later alterations and renovations, Adam-revival additions, and so-called accurate restorations of the last twenty-five years, Harris brings to light how much of Adam's original work was conditioned by circumstance and how much was left to invention.".
Book Synopsis The Education of the Eye by : Peter De Bolla
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.
Book Synopsis Robert Adam, 1728-92 by : Julius Bryant
Download or read book Robert Adam, 1728-92 written by Julius Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert Adam’s London by : Frances Sands
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.
Book Synopsis The Country Houses of Robert Adam by : Eileen Harris
Download or read book The Country Houses of Robert Adam written by Eileen Harris and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a pictorial survey of Robert Adam's distinctive architectural style, this book looks at the architecture, furniture and interior design from some of his most notable town and country houses.
Book Synopsis Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment by : Ariyuki Kondo
Download or read book Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment written by Ariyuki Kondo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.
Book Synopsis Colouring the Caribbean by : Mia L. Bagneris
Download or read book Colouring the Caribbean written by Mia L. Bagneris and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias’s intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour – so called ‘Red’ and ‘Black’ Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race – made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias’s paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias’s work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.
Download or read book Robert Adam written by Richard John and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addition to the 'New Classicists' series features the work of Robert Adam Architects Ltd, one of the leading practitioners of of traditional design in the UK. The practice manages a broad portfolio of work including house conversions and additions.
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Robert Adam by :
Download or read book The Architecture of Robert Adam written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam by : Robert Adam
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.
Book Synopsis A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe by : Johanna Ilmakunnas
Download or read book A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe written by Johanna Ilmakunnas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
Book Synopsis British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century by : Teresa Barnard
Download or read book British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Teresa Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through literary and documentary prose with unapologetic self-confidence, women such as Anna Barbauld, Anna Seward, Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted exploration goes beyond traditional readings of women’s creativity to add fresh, at times controversial, insights into the female view of the intellectual world. Bringing together leading experts on British women’s lives, work and writings, the volume seeks to rediscover women’s appropriations of masculine disciplines and to examine their interventions into the intellectual world. Through their engagement with a unique perspective on women’s lives and achievements, the essays make important contributions to the existing body of knowledge in this important area that will inform future scholarship.
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :1588393488 Total Pages :322 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period between the late 16th century through to the third quarter of the 19th century, this book features paintings by English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish artists which are part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Book Synopsis Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette by : Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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.
Book Synopsis The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts by : Gordon Campbell
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.
Book Synopsis Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators by : Stephen Bury
Download or read book Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators written by Stephen Bury and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 1341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary consists of over 3000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on British graphic artists and illustrators from the '2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists' with an additional 90 revised and 60 new articles.
Book Synopsis The Genius of Earth Day by : Adam Rome
Download or read book The Genius of Earth Day written by Adam Rome and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and enlightening history of Earth Day 1970, one of the largest and most important political events of the twentieth centuryThe first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before.The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring; it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure - lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, eco sections in bookstores, community ecology centers.
