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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 141 - 160 of 929 book(s) | |
| 141. |  | Title: Spinning fantasies: rabbis, gender, and history Author: Peskowitz, Miriam 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Gender Studies | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources - archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin - she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historica . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...Literature and Roman Galilean Architecture." In The Jewish Family in Antiquity ,... Similar Items...Yvon. "Private Life and Domestic Architecture." In A History of Private Life.... ...166 , 199 n23 Cicero, 13 classical architecture, preface classical texts and... |
| 142. |  | Title: A fable of modern art  Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Peter, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture . Montreal, 1967. Delacroix,... Similar Items...Adotf Loos, Pioneer of Modern Architecture . London/New York, 1966. Novalis, '... ...that the innerness of the rose's architecture is comparable only to the inner-... |
| 143. |  | Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideology Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...archeology, 70 n28, 235 , 263 architecture, 40 n81, 221 , 264 , 271 -72, 276 ;... Similar Items...Knopf, 1985. Necipoglu, Gulru. Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi... ...in Early Chinese Art and Architecture. Stanford: Stanford University Press,... |
| 144. |  | Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...1977. Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on the Ancient Coins of Greece, Rome... Similar Items...Perkins, J. B. 1981. Roman Imperial Architecture . 2d ed. New York and London.... ...Privatbesitz . 1973. Cologne. Architecture et société de l'archaisme grec à la... |
| 145. |  | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history Author: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...are several descriptions of the architecture of the Kasuga shrines; the most... Similar Items...was more important in ritual and architecture, as well as in social relations,... ...legitimacy, ritual, art, architecture, and combinations were fundamentally... |
| 146. |  | Title: Crescendo of the virtuoso: spectacle, skill, and self-promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution Author: Metzner, Paul 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound au . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...1821), pp. 5–6; idem, Projets d’architecture pour les embellissements de Paris (... Similar Items...1821), p. 10; idem, Projets d’architecture pour les embellissements de Paris (... ...Marie-Antonin Carême, Projets d’architecture, dédiés à Alexandre I er (Paris:... |
| 147. |  | Title: Reversible destiny: mafia, antimafia, and the struggle for Palermo Author: Schneider, Jane 1938- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Politics | Criminology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Fascist Libya: Modern Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning in Italian North... Similar Items...today's planners continue to view architecture and planning as instruments to... ...of openness and light in architecture, and with the Europe-wide aesthetic... |
| 148. |  | Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business Author: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | American Studies | Popular Culture | Intellectual History | Media Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...also Montgomery Schuyler, American Architecture and Other Writings, ed. William... Similar Items...15, 39, 67, 133; David Milne, "Architecture, Politics, and the Public Realm,"... ...Technique," American Architect and Architecture 151 (Sept. 1937): 32. 49. Walter... |
| 149. |  | Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...1— Whitehall and Architecture... Similar Items...Ceiling , 1958. Summerson, J. , Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 , 1953. Akrig,... ...of art, in 1624 dedicated a book on architecture to Charles, and wrote a short... |
| 150. |  | Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | History of Science | Psychology | Social Problems | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...254–75. Stevenson, Christine . The Architecture of Bethlem at Moorfields . The... Similar Items...British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660–1815 . New Haven, Conn. : Yale... ...the field. Christine Stevenson, “The Architecture of Bethlem at Moorfields,” The... |
| 151. |  | Title: The hydrogen jukebox: selected writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 Author: Schjeldahl, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Art Criticism Matches in book (11): ...15–21. "Edward Ruscha." Arts and Architecture 3 (August 1982): 23, 26–27. "High-... Similar Items...24, 1988): 48. Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, Museum of Modern Art. "... ...28, 1988): 18. Re: New York "architecture." "New Blue Collar" (October 5, 1988):... |
| 152. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...at the County Museum." Arts and Architecture vol. 80, no. 9, September 1963, pp.... Similar Items...The Age of Lyricism." Arts and Architecture, March 1956, pp. 14–15, 43–44. "... ...Art." Arts and Architecture, September 1956, pp. 4, 5, 13, 35, 36. "Art." Arts... |
| 153. |  | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele Author: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...J. 1959. "Chian and Early Ionic Architecture." Antiquaries Journal 39: 170-... Similar Items...A. 1978. Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture . Harmondsworth, Eng. Bolton, J.... ...locaux d'archives." In Urbanisme et Architecture: Études écrites et publiées en... |
| 154. |  | Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Water | Agriculture Matches in book (3): ...Natural Reflectants—Plant Architecture... Similar Items...319 -321 policy, 482 -484 Plant architecture and reflectance, 213 -214 Plant... ...certain expression of the plant's architecture. For example, they have provided... |
| 155. |  | Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...it with a complex of signs, streets, and architectures. In Civilization and Its... Similar Items...outwardly through writing and architecture: it has no other material or ground... ...kind, viz. those enormous masses of architecture and sculpture with which Egypt... |
| 156. |  | Title: Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought Author: Jay, Martin 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History | French Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art Theory Publisher's Description: Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to p . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...in the literature, painting, architecture, and politics of the era. In fact,... Similar Items...in Denis Hollier, Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille ,... ...with Bataille's distaste for architecture. "The space of painting," he writes, "... |
| 157. |  | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...175-82; and William H. Coaldrake, "Edo Architecture and Tokugawa Law," Monumenta... Similar Items...1993. Coaldrake, William H. "Edo Architecture and Tokugawa Law." Monumenta... ...109 , 114 , 115 , 135 , 137 -38 architecture, and European influence, 37 , 75 -... |
| 158. |  | Title: Louis XIII, the Just Author: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Matches in book (11): ...Paris, 1924. Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 . 2d ed.... Similar Items...of the Classical Style in French Architecture from 1565 to 1630 . London, 1972.... ...of Grandeur: Baroque Art and Architecture , Trans. A. Ross Williamson. London,... |
| 159. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German Studies Publisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...266. Wolfgang Pehnt, Expressionist Architecture (New York and Washington, D.C. :... Similar Items...1973), chap. 5. On Alpine architecture see pp. 82–83 and for Nietzsche's general... ...For the movement's effect on architecture see Wolfgang Pehnt, Expressionist... |
| 160. |  | Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | South Asia Publisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Dover, 1956. Cousins, Henry. Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts .... Similar Items...Pattadakal (H. Cousins, Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts , plate... ...plate 33; H. Cousins, Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts , plate... |