The aristocratic portraits painted by Van Dyck in the Republic of Genoa during the 1620s have become famous as definitively charismatic images of a ruling elite, the Genoese nobility being constitutionally defined as the governing class of the state.
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice.
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice.
The book "Vinegar and Honey" is a collection of articles, stories, and reflections drawn from Mohammed Al-Makwar's experiences, observations, and contemplations.
Hier verschmelzen Leidenschaft und Architektur zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk: 45 spektakuläre internationale Projekte zeigen, wie Automobile, Sammlungen und Wohnräume neu gedacht und inszeniert werden.
Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939), whose estate has been housed at the Exile Art Center of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2018, performed in the grand concert halls of Vienna, the vibrant Berlin of the 1920s, and later in exile in London and New York.
This book explores how urban spaces and imagery serve as vessels for artistic creation, conveying cultural identity and heritage, by focusing on Macau as a case study.
This book explores how urban spaces and imagery serve as vessels for artistic creation, conveying cultural identity and heritage, by focusing on Macau as a case study.
Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity.
The artwork of Antonio Dias (19442018) uniquely captures the interwoven histories of Brazilian postwar realism and of European conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity.
This book encapsulates the intellectual rigor and cross-disciplinary collaboration showcased at a global forum dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of geotechnical systems in sustainable infrastructure development.
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "e;dream state"e; inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world.
This volume reconstructs, through the perspectives of multiple agents, the vibrant atmosphere of eighteenth-century Italy, mainly Rome, from the standpoint of the art and antiques market.
This book introduces readers to Critical Organic Writing (COW), or ECO in Spanish, a feminist decolonial methodology that reimagines writing as a pulse of memory, embodiment, and shared world-making.
This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkner's lesser known and studied works.
The Pinnacle is the twisty murder mystery readers are OBSESSED with:'The very definition of a pounding, propulsive page-turner' Runs at breakneck speed Smart and breathless.
To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of the inquiry he is about to enter upon, is the object of the present treatise.
This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education, society and communication in design practice, and related ones.
This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education, society and communication in design practice, and related ones.
Finally, a ballet pedagogy book for teachers of all training methodsThere are many different methods for teaching classical balletBournonville, Vaganova, Cecchetti, and Royal Academy of Dancing being the most widely known.
This work contains illustrations of the thirteenth century Byzantine New Testament at the Rockefeller-McCormack collection in Chicago with a full description of its text, provenance, and the artistic and theological significance of the miniatures.
Classic blues, one of America's most distinctive musical art forms, originated specifically in a portion of Mississippi known as "e;the Delta,"e; a formerly cotton-growing feudal kingdom of sorts, stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, south to Vicksburg, hugging the great Mississippi River in between these cities along its eastern shore.
