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Author : Albert Wifstrand
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161486272
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Epochs and Styles written by Albert Wifstrand and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 essays were previously published in Swedish, 3 in English.
Author : Owen Hopkins
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780676387
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Architectural Styles written by Owen Hopkins and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.
Author : Georges-Louis Leclerc
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639557X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Epochs of Nature written by Georges-Louis Leclerc and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
Author : Ralph Nicholson Wornum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Epochs of Painting written by Ralph Nicholson Wornum and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hodder Michael Westropp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Epochs of Painted Vases; an Introduction to Their Study written by Hodder Michael Westropp and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Nicholson Wornum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Epochs of Painting Characterized written by Ralph Nicholson Wornum and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moiseĭ I︠A︡kovlevich Ginzburg
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N.Y. by MIT Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Style and Epoch written by Moiseĭ I︠A︡kovlevich Ginzburg and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N.Y. by MIT Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by Kenneth Frampton Moisei Iakovlevich Ginzburg, one of the founders and chief spokesmen of the Constructivist movement in Soviet architecture, combined the talents of scholar, theoretician, writer, and practicing architect. Originally published in Moscow in 1924, his book Style and Epochis considered by many to be the single most important piece of writing on architecture to come out of Russia in this century. It elucidates the aims and ideals of a Constructivist architecture, providing what is essentially an official manifesto of the Constructivist program and becoming the cornerstone of virtually all of the Constructivist writings that followed. Its translation makes available to English readers one of the seminal works of modern architectural theory. Style and Epoch has often been compared to Le Corbusier's Vers Une Architecture(published the year before Ginzburg's book) as a classic of early twentieth-century architectural thought. In it, Ginzburg expresses admiration for the products of engineering and machine technology and voices dismay at the failure to apply the means of that technology to improving architecture. By virtue of his unusually broad education; Ginzburg was able to draw upon elements of Western architecture and literature in such a way as to connect the Russian avant-garde with the simultaneously evolving network of progressive European movements. The result is a cogent analysis of architectural composition from antiquity to modern times in which Ginzburg attempts to plot those universal laws that determine any work of architecture, and proposes a systematic design method that is both rational and humane. An Oppositions Book.
Author : Marina Lobanova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136652299
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Musical Style and Genre written by Marina Lobanova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as too avant-garde and published there only in a bowdlerized version in 1990. Drawing on baroque, classical, romantic, and contemporary music, Dr. Lobanova proposes an original concept of musical syntax with special emphasis on the role of the categories of time, space, and motion. Embracing such aspects of cultural life as poetry and philosophy, she deals with the problems of cultural dialogue and the disintegration of the concept of absolute music.
Author : Ralph Nickolson Wornum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The epochs of painting characterized, a sketch of the history of painting, ancient and modern written by Ralph Nickolson Wornum and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745690254
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Metamorphosis of the World written by Ulrich Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something quite new is emerging. To grasp this metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present. Take climate change: much of the debate about climate change has focused on whether or not it is really happening, and if it is, what we can do to stop or contain it. But this emphasis on solutions blinds us to the fact that climate change is an agent of metamorphosis. It has already altered our way of being in the world the way we live in the world, think about the world and seek to act upon the world through our actions and politics. Rising sea levels are creating new landscapes of inequality drawing new world maps whose key lines are not traditional boundaries between nation-states but elevations above sea level. It is creating an entirely different way of conceptualizing the world and our chances of survival within it. The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but the positive side effects of bads. They produce normative horizons of common goods and propel us beyond the national frame towards a cosmopolitan outlook.
Author : Francis Whiting Halsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Epochs in American History written by Francis Whiting Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Nicholson WORNUM
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Epochs of Painting Characterized; a Sketch of the History of Painting, Ancient and Modern, Etc written by Ralph Nicholson WORNUM and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lectures on Architecture written by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Eyre WEEKS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Gentleman's Hourglass, Or An Introduction to Chronology ... Comprehending the Whole Science, After a New, and Curious Method, Etc written by James Eyre WEEKS and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William McGaughey
Publisher : Thistlerose Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Five Epochs of Civilization written by William McGaughey and published by Thistlerose Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the idea that communication technologies are a primary shaping force of civilizations, "Five Epochs of Civilization" presents a new scheme of world history. It identifies five epochs of historical experience and associates each with a civilization focused on particular institutions. These are: -- Civilization I focused on government, ending in large political empires -- Civilization II focused on religion, ending in the three world religions -- Civilization III focused on commerce and education within the nation state -- Civilization IV focused on the media of news and entertainment -- Civilization V focused on the internet and beyond The communication technologies which triggered these changes in culture (and their approximate dates of introduction) include: ideographic writing (3100 B.C.), alphabetic writing (800 B.C.), printing (1450 A.D.), electronic recording and broadcasting (1920 A.D.), and computer networks (1990 A.D.). McGaughey includes separate narratives for each of the four civilizations that have appeared to date in a developed form plus 'imaginative and plausible speculations concerning a possible fifth, computer-based civilization'.
Author : Alexander Speltz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486205576
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Styles of Ornament written by Alexander Speltz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over three thousand drawings illustrate the ornamented styles that have been produced throughout the world since prehistoric times
Author : Robert M. Burns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415320801
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Historiography: Ideas written by Robert M. Burns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.
