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Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher : Basic Civitas Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Renaissance Redisc Liner Per written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by Basic Civitas Books. This book was released on 1975-07-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluative account of the rediscovery of geometric linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy, the artists, architects, and mathematicians who studied and applied its principles, and its pervasive impact on Renaissance and post-Renaissance life.
Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474804
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.
Author : Timothy J. Sinclair
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415276627
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Global Governance written by Timothy J. Sinclair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Carpo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135657009
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Perspective, Projections and Design written by Mario Carpo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change. The first is the Renaissance; characterized by the rediscovery of linear perspectives and the simultaneous rise of new formats for architectural drawing and design on paper; the second, the contemporary rise of digital technologies and the simultaneous rise of virtual reality and computer-based design and manufacturing. Many of the contributing authors explore the parallel between the invention of the perspectival paradigm in early-modern Europe and the recent development of digitized virtual reality. This issue in turn bears on the specific purposes of architectural design, where various representational tools and devices are used to visualize bi-dimensional aspects of objects that must be measured and eventually built in three-dimensional space.
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393059766
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the years between 1100 and 1453 describes the Crusades, the Inquisition, the emergence of the Ottomans, the rise of the Mongols, and the invention of new currencies, weapons, and schools of thought.
Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639903
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Reality written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book discusses the shift to quantitative perception which made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.
Author : Francesco Colonna
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464987871
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili written by Francesco Colonna and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", together with all of its 174 original woodcut illustrations, has been called the first "stream of consciousness" novel and was one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. The author -- presumed to be a friar of dubious reputation -- was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume (it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed) and its woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas.
Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226500287
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Glass written by Alan Macfarlane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity's relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution. Clear, compelling, and quite provocative, Glass is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that has been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723898
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Perspective written by James Elkins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the first book to bring together recent thinking on perspective from such fields as art history, literary theory, aesthetics, psychology, and the history of mathematics, James Elkins leads us to a new understanding of how we talk about pictures. Elkins provides an abundantly illustrated history of the theory and practice of perspective. Looking at key texts from the Renaissance to the present, he traces a fundamental historical change that took place in the way in which perspective was conceptualized; first a technique for constructing pictures, it slowly became a metaphor for subjectivity. That gradual transformation, he observes, has led to the rifts that today separate those who understand perspective as a historical or formal property of pictures from those who see it as a linguistic, cognitive, or epistemological metaphor. Elkins considers how the principal concepts of perspective have been rewritten in work by Erwin Panofsky, Hubert Damisch, Martin Jay, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and E. H. Gombrich. The Poetics of Perspective illustrates that perspective is an unusual kind of subject: it exists as a coherent idea, but no one discipline offers an adequate exposition of it. Rather than presenting perspective as a resonant metaphor for subjectivity, a painter's tool without meaning, a disused historical practice, or a model for vision and representation, Elkins proposes a comprehensive revaluation. The perspective he describes is at once a series of specific pictorial decisions and a powerful figure for our knowledge of the world.
Author : Daniel Chua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139431358
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning written by Daniel Chua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against that notion of absolute music which tends to be the paradigm for most musicological and analytical studies. It is concerned not so much with what music is, but with why and how meaning is constructed in instrumental music and what structures of knowledge need to be in place for such meaning to exist. From the thought of Vincenzo Galilei to that of Theodore Adorno, Daniel Chua suggests that instrumental music has always been a critical and negative force in modernity, even with its nineteenth-century apotheosis as 'absolute music'.
Author : Justin Desautels-Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108601464
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Jurisprudence of Style written by Justin Desautels-Stein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the contemporary domain of American legal thought there is a dominant way in which lawyers and judges craft their argumentative practice. More colloquially, this is a dominant conception of what it means to 'think like a lawyer'. Despite the widespread popularity of this conception, it is rarely described in detail or given a name. Justin Desautels-Stein tells the story of how and why this happened, and why it matters. Drawing upon and updating the work of Harvard Law School's first generation of critical legal studies, Desautels-Stein develops what he calls a jurisprudence of style. In doing so, he uncovers the intellectual alliance, first emerging at the end of the nineteenth century and maturing in the last third of the twentieth century, between American pragmatism and liberal legal thought. Applying the tools of legal structuralism and phenomenology to real-world cases in areas of contemporary legal debate, this book develops a practice-oriented understanding of legal thought.
Author : Michael Kubovy
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521368490
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art written by Michael Kubovy and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Kubovy, an experimental psychologist, recounts the lively history of the invention of perspective in the fifteenth century, and shows how, as soon as the invention spread, it was used to achieve subtle and fascinating aesthetic effects. A clear presentation of the fundamental concepts of perspective and the reasons for its effectiveness, drawing on the latest laboratory research on how people perceive, leads into the development of a new theory to explain why Renaissance artists such as Leonardo and Mantegna used perspective in unorthodox ways which have puzzled art scholars. This theory illuminates the author's broader consideration of the evolution of art: the book proposes a resolution of the debate between those who believe that the invention/discovery of perspective is a stage in the steady progress of art and those who believe that perspective is merely a conventional and arbitrary system for the representation of space.
Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047900
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Constructing Cause in International Relations written by Richard Ned Lebow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.
Author : Ottmar Ette
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110480174
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book TransArea written by Ottmar Ette and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottmar Ette’s TransArea proceeds from the thesis that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but rather, a process of long duration that may be divided into four main phases of accelerated globalization. These phases connect our present, across the world’s widely divergent modern eras, to the period of early modern history. Ette demonstrates how the literatures of the world make possible a tangible perception of that which constitutes Life, both of our planet and on our planet, which may only be understood through the application of multiple logics. There is no substitute for the knowledge of literature: it is the knowledge of life, from life. This English translation will be of great interest to English-speaking scholars in the fields of Global and Area Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, and many more. About the author Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany, since 1995. He is Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (elected in 2014), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected in 2013), and regular member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010).
Author : David L. Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016060
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Curious Visions of Modernity written by David L. Martin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.
Author : Vladimir Evseevich Brodskiĭ
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433107795
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The World Created in the Image of Man written by Vladimir Evseevich Brodskiĭ and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Created in the Image of Man investigates the development of the third dimension in painting from the dramatic moment when spatial construction becomes charged with an external force antagonistic to the effort of forms, or human figures, to preserve their permanence. The competitive contact between the external and internal worlds represented in the picture brings a vital element to the unfolding of art as it occurs in both the West and the East. As the analysis of masterpieces from different historical periods and cultures demonstrates here, this vital impulse becomes a necessary part of pictorial composition and the measure of the quality of the work of art. It can reveal itself in a limitless and disparate variety of subject matter: a scene from Japanese court life, as depicted in the illustrations of the early twelfth century to the novel The Tale of Genji; a representation of the maternal feeling of the Virgin anticipating the fate of her child in Byzantine icon painting; Raphael's «universal interior» in The School of Athens; Rembrandt's allegory of historic continuity in Aristotle with the Bust of Homer. The progression of this dynamic eventually leads to the surrender of form to space with the Impressionists; and to the conclusion of the book, which considers Postmodern art in the form of the installation, where the emphasis is put on the unprecedented role of the viewer as a component of the work, and which suggests an environment that is totally alien, or even hostile to him. Art historians, students of art history and the educated general reader with an interest in painting will find this book a rewarding and stimulating read.
