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“wayne craven”

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  • Stanford White

    Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities

    by Wayne Craven ...
    The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively studied and written about, no book has fully examined the other aspect of his career, which ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • A Short History of England

    by G.K. Chesterton ...
    "It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written. What we call the popular histories ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    by Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Memory Palace

    A Book of Lost Interiors

    by Edward Hollis ...
    A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained.The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bricks & Mortals

    Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

    by Tom Wilkinson ...
    We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Introducing Romanticism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Duncan Heath ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and artistic freedom were born.When we think of Romanticism, flamboyant figures such as Byron or Shelley instantly spring to mind, but what about ... Read more

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  • The 1950s American Home

    by Diane Boucher ...
    Series Book 740 - Shire Library USA
    Modern living began with the homes of the 1950s. Casting aside the privations of the Second World War, American architects embraced the must-have mod-cons: they wrapped fitted kitchens around fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and electric ovens, gave televisions pride of place in the living room, and built integrated garages for enormous space-age cars. So why was this change so radical? In ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Architecture since 1400

    by Kathleen James-Chakraborty ...
    The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, Architecture since 1400 is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great Pyramid in Mexico City and the Duomo in Florence to Levittown’s suburban tract housing and the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, its coverage includes the world’s most ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture

    Edited by Elana Shapira, Alison J. Clarke ...
    This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M. ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Baroque Visual Rhetoric

    by Vernon Hyde Minor ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, ... Read more

    $76.39 USD