Art Architecture category: 42682 books
Designing Disability
Symbols, Space, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal – physical access for the disabled – through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical disability studies to examine not only the development...
Strolling Through Rome
The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture,...
by Mary Emmerling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Turquoise and silver is an icon of the American Southwest. For generations, people have ogled these gemstones in pawn shops, jewelry shops and antiques stores, looking for a special piece of Native American jewelry that speaks to their heart. Southwest jewelry is now valued and collected around the...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Bien que la sculpture soit née avant la peinture, elle a longtemps été considérée comme un simple complément de l'architecture, le plus ancien des trois arts majeurs. Utilisant les mêmes matériaux (bois, pierre, et marbre), elle semblait n'être faite que pour servir d'ornementation à cette...
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume – the first scholarly book-length publication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions...
Pompeii
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Situated in the Sarno River valley in southern Italy, on a gentle slope facing the sea to the south of Vesuvius, the Roman site of Pompeii was already famous throughout the ancient world when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Preserved under layers of ash and lava, the city...
Cubisme
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Partez à la découverte du cubisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Le cubisme constitue par son aspect expérimental le mouvement artistique le plus radical du premier quart du XXe siècle. On considère généralement qu'il est à l'origine de tous les courants abstraits de l'art moderne...
Cluny, apogée de l'art roman (Cluny - 2010)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Cluny matérialise de bien des manières l'histoire d'un élan et d'une passion. Tout commence avec une abbaye fondée en 910 sur les terres de Bourgogne et qui, sous l'impulsion d'une lignée d'hommes exceptionnels, du premier abbé, Bernon, à Hugues (1049-1109), ou Pierre le Vénérable (1122-1156),...
La coupure entre architectes et intellectuels, ou les enseignements de l'Italophilie
Ouvrage de référence sur l'architecture
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Confronter les codes et les écoles artistiques entre la France et l'Italie en matière d'urbanisme
Dans cet ouvrage initialement publié en 1984 et rapidement devenu introuvable, Jean-Louis Cohen analyse un moment-clé pour la théorie et la pratique de l’architecture contemporaine, marqué...
by Michael Tymkiw
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
In one of the most comprehensive analyses ever written on the subject, Michael Tymkiw reassesses the relationship between Nazi exhibition design and modernism. While National Socialist exhibitions are widely understood as platforms...
The Art of Revitalization
Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.
The Art of Revitalization takes...
by Clare Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Wallpaper’s spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material’s use in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It examines the types of wallpaper that were designed and produced and the interior spaces it occupied, from the country house to the...
Architecture of Middle Georgia
The Oconee Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The middle Georgia area—including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties—is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek...
Politics by Other Means
Selected Criticism from Review 31
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books...