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Why did the Victorians drape their buildings in elaborately ornate decoration? Why was the Arts and Crafts movement so popular with the American middle class at the end of the 19th century? Why did Modernism replace traditional architectural styles after World War II? Mark Gelernter provides fresh answers to questions like these, convincingly showing how buildings express powerful cultural forces.
Embodying deeply felt attitudes about fundamental issues, buildings express our relationship with nature, our social relations with others, the importance of the individual, the value of science and technology, and our political role in the world. He explains how designers sometimes expressed these ideas with available building technologies, while at other times they invented new technologies in order to realize new ideas. Each of the ten chronological chapters, accompanied by almost 300 photographs, drawings, and maps, begins with a broad survey of the dominant cultural forces and technologies, and then discusses how designers of the day responded with particular architectural forms.
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A clearly written interesting history........2007-03-09
This is easy reading with appropos illustrations. Just the right amount of detail for the traveller who is interested in architecture.
Context is everything.......2000-04-18
I found Mr. Gelernter's book in the public library as I was researching a project. After reading it, I thought it was so useful that I decided to buy it for my own library.
Many art and architecture books are just recitations of dry facts, dates and theories, with no historical or sociological context. Not so Gelernter's "A History of American Architecture."
The correlation of buildings with their context, and the inclusion of early Native American architecture, make this a thought provoking introduction to the history of architecture in America.
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Teaching Art and Design: Addressing Issues and Identifying Directions (Cassell Education)
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ASIN: 0304330728 |
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Prepare your students to be intelligent participants in art with Artist and Audience. Author Terence Grieder gives your students a taste of the world of art in the opening chapter before moving into the various elements and media. Part V offers a historical survey of world art in which students learn to appreciate the various styles as they appeared across the globe and throughout history.
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Jonathan Borofsky: Dedicated To The Audience (Reihe Cantz)
Jonathan Borofsky
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ASIN: 3893225633
Release Date: 1993-12-02 |
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Presenting Borofsky's documentary photographs of his room installations in chronological order for the first time, this book gives a unique insight into his artistic intentions.
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Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions
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ASIN: 0920159745 |
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Stronger artist alliances, skepticism about institutions, and awareness of new audiences have all contributed to a reevaluation of what works and what doesn't for artists striving towards social change. In this timely anthology, over twenty writers and artists share their experiences in a range of Canadian contexts. From First Nations coalitions to artist mentoring programs, important art projects are analyzed. Several theorists offer additional insights into the broader issues shaping activist art practices. Offering years of collective experience, this book is essential reading for understanding arts activism in Canada.
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"Could someone tell me what critics are for?" the director Tom DiCillo once asked, wearing the kind of jovial grimace you might expect from the guy behind Living in Oblivion. A little stuffy and academic, Artists in the Audience nevertheless defends the role of those among us who watch, react, and report. Taking as his heroes two avant-garde critics, Greg Taylor traces our own obsession with camp and cult movies to their beginnings. Parker Tyler, a poet who wrote for View, and Manny Farber, a painter who reviewed films for The Nation, were Greenwich Village bohemians who sought highbrow delight (or "weightier entertainment value," as Tyler put it) along the margins. Starting in the 1940s, Farber and Tyler began to hold movies up to more serious scrutiny, but at the same time they groomed their readers to resist middle-class values by grooving on the Wildean fringes, "the aesthetically incomplete, fractured, uncontrolled"--Plan 9 from Outer Space over, say, Mildred Pierce. As apostles of cinematic energy they anticipate Pauline Kael and Film Comment. But they mainstreamed giddiness too, championing what Dan Aykroyd's twitchy theater maven in Saturday Night Live skits of the 1970s called the "deliciously bad." Finally, their desire to shake up conventional notions of taste à la Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol relates to our present wassailing in cultural debris--in psychotronic Z-budget movies, in bad-for-you TV, and in academic panels devoted to teasing out the deconstruction of gender role-playing in The Valley of the Dolls. --Lyall Bush
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Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.
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The book is fascinating and down-right awe-inspiring........1999-06-17
I've said it before. I'll say it again...flug. That's right folks, flug, and a most interesting one at that. With all seriousness, this books kicks major a--! I would have it surgically attached to my thigh if possible. If you want to know what I mean about flug, read the book...trust me!
The book is fascinating and down-right awe-inspiring........1999-06-17
I've said it before. I'll say it again...flug. That's right folks, flug, and a most interesting one at that. With all seriousness, this books rule! I would have it surgically attached to my thigh if possible.
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha came of age as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s, a decade of enormous artistic, cultural, social, and political transformation. Despite her untimely and tragic death, she created an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work that reflected the profound developments of her time and place--including the radical changes in art--and her own cultural alienation. The Dream of the Audience, a touring exhibition organized by the Berkeley Art Museum, showcases the full range of work by this influential yet underrepresented Korean American artist, who worked in media ranging from performance, video, and film to artists' books, mail art, and works on paper and cloth. This book, designed to accompany the exhibition, is an essential reference to Cha's work. It contains three essays that provide an in-depth context to her visual art and the fullest analysis of her work to date. This volume's comprehensive view of Cha's oeuvre illuminates the recurring themes and formal approaches that distinguish her art.
Constance M. Lewallen traces the influences on Cha's development while she was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and places her work in the context of the artistic and social climate of the San Francisco Bay Area. Lawrence R. Rinder analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of the artist's multileveled and interrelated work. Trinh T. Minh-ha's essay is a poetic evocation of Cha's work as it relates to her ancestry and the suffering of the Korean people under the Japanese colonial policy of deracination. Together the essays show how her rich and original art is informed by a dizzying array of influences--from French film theory to Korean history.
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Excavating The Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays In Honor Of Sandra Hindman
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Poorly written.......2007-06-08
To me, this has the appearance of dissertation turned into a book to boost a resume. Not well thought out. It often appears that it was written by a high school student. I was very disappointed. Save your money.
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Maximizing the Audience : Gabor Palotai Graphic Designer
Gabor Palotai
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Discovering Industrial Ecology: An Executive Briefing and Sourcebook
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La Economia de Los '90: Aspectos Significativos, Consecuencias Previsibles
Marcelo Ramon Lascano
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The Lender's Toolkit: A Pocket Guide to the Essential Formulas, Ratios and Tables
Kenneth R. Pirok
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The Lender's Toolkit--the definitive reference guide to lending formulas, ratios and tables--gives readers immediate access to the information they need. Ready reference for the formulas used to calculate payments. APR, Points and more. Quick access to the financial ratios used to assess the strength of a loan. Immediate use of amortization and payment tables. It's all here: All of the major financial ratios used for loan analysis and review; Access to amortization tables for quick reference or support; Complete list of formulas used in calculating interest, yields, points, return, etc.; Quick reference for accounts analysis, financial projections or interest calculation; Financial information required by regulations. Affordable, easy-to-use and designed for quick reference, The Lender's Toolkit is a valuable resource for everyone in the department.
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Don't waste your time or money.......2000-04-13
This book was a total disappointment. I received betterinformation from an introductory finance college-level course thanfrom this waste of time.
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Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s
Lois Wyse
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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ASIN: 0517880199
Release Date: 1992-12-29 |
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The unwritten (until now) rules of business conduct have changed. In Company Manners, a successful executive separates the do's from the don'ts in the '90s. Includes sections on sexual harrassment, family leave, flextime, strategies for surviving mergers, reorganizations, and corporate warfare. Advertising in Executive Female.
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Quiet Moments for Working Woman
Mary Whelchel
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A collection of 130 devotions that encourage and challenge Christians to live out their faith in the workplace.
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