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The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-century Europe

Author : Kirk Ambrose
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843838311
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-century Europe written by Kirk Ambrose and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings. Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green man", widespread in churches and cathedrals. These mysterious depictions are frequently interpreted as embodying or mitigating the fears symptomatic of a "dark age". This book, however, considers an alternative scenario: in what ways did monsters in twelfth-century sculpture help audiences envision, perhaps even achieve, various ambitions? Using examples of Romanesque sculpture from across Europe, with a focus on France and northern Portugal, the author suggests that medieval representations of monsterscould service ideals, whether intellectual, political, religious, and social, even as they could simultaneously articulate fears; he argues that their material presence energizes works of art in paradoxical, even contradictory ways. In this way, Romanesque monsters resist containment within modern interpretive categories and offer testimony to the density and nuance of the medieval imagination. KIRK AMBROSE is Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder.

Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages

Author : Alyce A. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443803987
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages written by Alyce A. Jordan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts of the Middle Ages have served to articulate contemporary aspirations and anxieties. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection examine the afterlife of medieval works through their preservation, restoration, appropriation, and commodification in America, Great Britain, and across Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From the evocation of metaphors and tropes, to monumental projects of restoration and recreation—medieval visual culture has had a tremendous purchase in the construction of political, religious, and cultural practices of the Modern era. The authors assembled here engage a diverse spectrum of works, from Irish ruins and a former Florentine prison to French churches and American department stores, and an equally diverse array of media ranging from architecture and manuscripts to embroidery, monumental sculpture, and metalwork. With applications not only to the study of art and architecture, but also encompassing such varied fields as commerce, city planning, education, literature, collecting and exhibition design, this copiously illustrated anthology comprises a significant contribution to the study of medieval art and medievalism.

Denman Ross and American Design Theory

Author : Marie Ann Frank
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611680123
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Denman Ross and American Design Theory written by Marie Ann Frank and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and thought of one of the founders of twentieth-century American design

The Journal of the United Service Institution

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the United Service Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exhibiting the Foreign on U.S. Soil

Author : Kathleen Berrin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134098
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Exhibiting the Foreign on U.S. Soil written by Kathleen Berrin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uneasy relationship between the arts, US art museums, and the federal government has not been thoroughly explored by scholars. This book focuses on the development of “national diplomacy exhibitions” during World War II and the early Cold War and explains how the War provided the government with an impetus to create a national arts policy. It discusses how national diplomacy exhibitions on US soil were deployed as persuasive tools to influence public opinion, to reconcile discrepancies between high art and democracy, and to resolve America’s lagging art status and difficulties with “the foreign.” The type of soft diplomacy that art museums provide by initiating national diplomacy exhibitions has not received emphasis in the scholarly community and art museums have essentially been ignored in cultural studies of the early Cold War. Scholarly analysis of museum exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century is now a popular topic, but investigations of exhibitions between 1939-1960 have been thin. By scrutinizing major exhibitions during those formative years this book takes a new perspective and examines the foundational development of the so-called “blockbuster” exhibition stimulated by World War II. The book will interest readers in visual studies, history, museums, cultural affairs, government, and international diplomacy.

Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120

Author : Janice Mann
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691921
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Romanesque Architecture and its Sculptural in Christian Spain, 1000-1120 written by Janice Mann and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades following the year 1000 marked a watershed in the history of the Iberian Peninsula when the balance of power shifted from Muslims to Christians. During this crucial period of religious and political change, Romanesque churches were constructed for the first time in Spain. Romanesque Architecture and Its Sculptural Decoration in Christian Spain, 1000-1120 examines how the financial patronage of newly empowered local rulers allowed Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration to significantly redefine the cultural identities of those who lived in the frontier kingdoms of Christian Spain. Proceeding chronologically, Janice Mann studies the earliest Romanesque monuments constructed by Sancho el Mayor (r.1004-1035) and his wife, daughters, and granddaughters, as well as those that were built by Sancho Ramírez, king of Aragon (1064-1094). Mann examines groups of buildings constructed by particular patrons against the backdrop of changing social conditions and attitudes that resulted from increased influence from beyond the Pyrenees, the consolidation of royal power, and intensified aggression against Muslims. An in-depth study of the rise of an architectural style, this is the first book to examine early Romanesque architecture and sculpture of the Iberian Peninsula as it relates to frontier culture.

Christian Statesman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Cultivating Citizens

Author : Lauren Kroiz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286561
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Citizens written by Lauren Kroiz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cultivating Citizens rethinks the aesthetics and politics of regionalism in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. During this period, painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry formed a loose alliance as American Regionalists. Some lauded their depictions of the rural landscape and hardworking inhabitants of America's midwestern heartland. Others deemed Regionalist painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism, chauvinism, and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens shifts the terms of this ongoing debate over subject matter and style by considering heretofore neglected Regionalist programs of art education and concepts of artistic labor."--Provided by publisher.

Federal Probation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Clay-worker

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clay-worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.

Carpentry and Building

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carpentry and Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Practical Architecture as Applied to Farm Buildings

Author : Robert Scott Burn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Practical Architecture as Applied to Farm Buildings written by Robert Scott Burn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The technical educator, an encyclopædia

Author : Technical educator
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The technical educator, an encyclopædia written by Technical educator and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering

Author : Shuhua Fan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739168517
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering written by Shuhua Fan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an empirical, multi-archival study of a transnational foundation—the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) from the 1920s to the early 1950s—this book presents the story of transplanting Western/American humanities scholarship into Asia/China and addresses central questions in U.S.-China relations. This book focuses on the HYI’s programs in teaching, research, and publication of Chinese humanities within China to the early 1950s and, to a lesser extent, its activities at Harvard that had close ties with its China side. Through the HYI story, the author examines in depth the cooperation, tensions, adaptation, and integration in the operation, management, and governance of the HYI’s programs on both sides of the Pacific, and the complex multi-layered interactions between American educators and their Chinese partners, treating each side sympathetically but without losing sight of the big picture. As the first comprehensive study on the subject, the book adopts a concept of “cultural engineering,” which is defined as a conscious design to use cultural heritage to recreate culture in order to promote a society's development, to look at key issues in a way which accounts for interactions and initiatives on both sides and shows the difficult path toward developing common interests without neglecting tensions and conflicts, thus going beyond the various one-sided historiographies which pit Chinese against Americans or nativist rejection of modernity against cultural imperialism. The HYI experience in China from the 1920s to the early 1950s resonates down to the present day in American relations with the world. The United States faces many similar challenges in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America today as in revolutionary China of the 1920s to 1950s. Therefore, this study offers a window onto many issues relating to cross-cultural interactions today, especially between the United States and non-Western nations.

Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough

Author : Jeffrey Abt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805392786
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough written by Jeffrey Abt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.

The Technical Educator

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368184741
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Technical Educator written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Things That Move

Author : Tim Anstey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547503
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Things That Move written by Tim Anstey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves. We tend to think of architecture as a practice in permanence, but what if we looked instead for an architecture of transience? In Things That Move, Tim Anstey does just that: rather than assuming that architecture is, at a certain level, stationary, he considers how architecture moves subjects (referring to its emotive potential in the experience it creates); how it moves objects (referring to how it choreographs bodies in motion); and how it is itself moved (referring to the mixture of materials, laws, affordances, and images that introduce movement into any architectural condition). The first of the book’s three sections, “Cargoes,” highlights the mobile peripheries of architectural history through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It asks what kinds of knowledge can be included under a discussion of something called architecture, noting the connections between discourses of the lithe and the technical, on the one hand, and those associated with the production of monumental, static compositions on the other. The second section, “Dispatches,” reinterprets early architectural theory by examining the Renaissance ideal of decorum, the nature of the architectural work, and the ways in which architects are constituted as authors. Lastly, “Vehicles” considers building in terms of literal and metaphorical movement, using two cases from the twentieth century that investigate the relationship between architecture and cultural memory. Using a broadly forensic approach to connect details in otherwise disparate cases, Things That Move is a breathtakingly capacious architectural account that will change the way readers understand buildings, their becoming, and their significance.