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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 121 - 140 of 929 book(s) | |
| 121. |  | Title: Native place, city, and nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937  Author: Goodman, Bryna 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...vol. 3, 80-85. Figure 2. Huiguan architecture. Source: Huitu Shanghai zazhi (... Similar Items...Draft history of modern Shanghai architecture). Shanghai, 1988. Chen Dingshan.... ...Hangkow or Kiukiang." 26 Shanghai architecture, like Shanghai street names and... |
| 122. |  | Title: India Author: Wolpert, Stanley A 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert's India prov . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Caves, Temple and Regal Art, and Architecture... Similar Items...of Hindu India's greatest temple architecture and art is found there, however,... ...Indian, as does the pagoda-style architecture found everywhere in the valley,... |
| 123. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Adams, Annmarie. 1996. Architecture in the Family Way . Montreal and Kingston.... Similar Items...1920. Some Essays on Golf-course Architecture . London. Coilingwood, W. G. 1932.... ...Lindley, Kenneth. 1973. Seaside Architecture . London. Lindsay, Jean. 1974. A... |
| 124. |  | Title: Cool conduct: the culture of distance in Weimar Germany Author: Lethen, Helmut Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Sociology | German Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way o . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Scott Spector Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the... Similar Items...of codes to guide conduct, from architecture to philosophical anthropology, from... ...objectivity interiors of Bauhaus architecture—“with overhead lighting and tiled... |
| 125. |  | Title: Art and artists of twentieth-century China Author: Sullivan, Michael 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | China Publisher's Description: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...Architect and amateur painter. 1944 B.S. in architecture, NCU Chongqing.... Similar Items...1949 M.A. in architecture, Univ. of Illinois.... ...instructor at M.I.T. 1960 dean of architecture dept. , Donghai Univ. , Taiwan.... |
| 126. |  | Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...like the death of art, monumental architecture is simultaneously the beginning... Similar Items...the first content of independent architecture. The readiest example of this is... ...arts into painting, sculpture, and architecture—which Smithson contested—and to... |
| 127. |  | Title: Inventing the needy: gender and the politics of welfare in Hungary Author: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | European History | Gender Studies | Law | Social Problems | Political Theory | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one ano . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...conceptions of need. By constructing “architectures of need,” states define who... Similar Items...these regimes encoded different architectures of need. They were based on... ...1985) Liberal welfare state (1985–1996) Architecture of need Social institutions... |
| 128. |  | Title: The bridge betrayed: religion and genocide in Bosnia Author: Sells, Michael Anthony Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Politics | European History | Islam | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Christianity—manuscripts, art, and architecture—survived Ottoman rule so well?... Similar Items...destruction, see Amir Pasic, Islamic Architecture in Bosnia and Hercegovina (... ...1994), 130. 23. See Pasic, Islamic Architecture in Bosnia and Hercegovina , 218,... |
| 129. |  | Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European History Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...art, literature, music, and architecture can be traced to Frankish influences of... Similar Items...bridges, road, ruins) and art and architecture ranging from Visigothic and... ...examples of Romanesque sculpture and architecture are found along the road. Each... |
| 130. |  | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Arbitraire du signe, 23 –26, 129 Architecture, 202 –4 Aristotle, 23 –24, 34 ,... Similar Items...veraciously trumpeted abroad arouse the architecture of the palace, the only one... ...poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture) are distinct expressions of... |
| 131. |  | Title: The lure of the modern: writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 Author: Shi, Shumei 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | China | Asian Literature | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Japan | Comparative Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging cri . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture . Edited by Wilma Fairbank .... Similar Items...nation filled with functionalistic architecture born from a Marxist-nationalist,... ...to attend a lecture on Chinese architecture to be given by Lin Huiyin in Beijing... |
| 132. |  | Title: The molecular biology of plant cells Author: Smith, H. (Harry) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Science | Botany | Biology Matches in book (7): ...7.3.2— Cell Wall Architecture... Similar Items...and determination of cell wall architecture. In certain cell types, microtubules... ...of cell shape (2) Cell wall architecture; cell differentiation (3) Intracellular... |
| 133. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Apa Tanis, 452 n. 14 Apples, 245 Architecture, 33 , 34 ; herding huts, 45 -46;... Similar Items...been recent changes in vernacular architecture that reflect a concern with the... ...timber requirements, 195 . See also Architecture Houston, Charles, 358 , 404 ,... |
| 134. |  | Title: Painting on the left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Art | Art History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: The boldly political mural projects of Diego Rivera and other leftist artists in San Francisco during the 1930s and early 1940s are the focus of Anthony W. Lee's fascinating book. Led by Rivera, these painters used murals as a vehicle to reject the economic and political status quo and to give visib . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Ray Boynton," California Arts and Architecture (December 1932), 21. 38. The best... Similar Items...Business Men," California Arts and Architecture (December 1931), 32-33. The... ...163-82. 10. California Arts and Architecture 42, no. 1 (1932), 2. 11. "New... |
| 135. |  | Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering Author: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Art | Media Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Press, 1989. Eco, Umberto. "Architecture and Memory." Via 8 (1986): 88-94.... Similar Items...Not Monuments." Progressive Architecture (September 1985): 43-45. Brownstein,... ...Controversy in Recent American Architecture. Edited by Tod Marder. Cambridge:... |
| 136. |  | Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | Politics | California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...New Gray Neighbor,” Progressive Architecture (August 1981): 72–75. For the “user... Similar Items...hockey teams. Melvin Swig hired the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill... ...urban design. As New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote... |
| 137. |  | Title: "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Author: Caton, Steven Charles 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...the whole performance), and the architecture is made up of a parallel series of... Similar Items...occur on higher levels of the architecture of the poem. It is to this problem... ...Jakobson's notion of parallelism and architecture with Bakhtin and Medvedev's... |
| 138. |  | Title: The reign of the phallus: sexual politics in ancient Athens Author: Keuls, Eva C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens.The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This ob . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Inner and Outer Space in Greek Architecture... Similar Items...we can see it reflected in architecture, city planning, medicine and law. In the... ...prototype of almost all Greek public architecture was the temple, essentially an... |
| 139. |  | Title: Visual piety: a history and theory of popular religious images Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Art Publisher's Description: This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards - have ass . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...by the force of towering architecture or Sunday morning art appreciation... Similar Items...reliquaries, altarpieces, and church architecture that responded to the presence... ...looking transformed the art and architecture of the later Middle Ages in Europe... |
| 140. |  | Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...forbidden, 157 ; and synagogue architecture, 141 Zohar hadash, 193n22 Zolewski,... Similar Items...York , 1965 . Wischnitzer, Rachel . The Architecture of the European Synagogue .... ...Hubka, Thomas . Jewish Art and Architecture in the East European Context: The... |