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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 201 - 220 of 929 book(s) | |
| 201. |  | Title: Picturing Casablanca: portraits of power in a modern city Author: Ossman, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Electronic Media | Media Studies Publisher's Description: In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand e . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...art is not distinguished from design or architecture. Ibn Khaldun, for example,... Similar Items...s - n -', "to make"), include architecture, agriculture, music, medicine, and... ...The recent wave of postmodernist architecture again brings up the controversial... |
| 202. |  | Title: Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world Author: Helmreich, Stefan 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | Biology | Technology and Society | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West Publisher's Description: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Artificial Life researchers. 3. "In architecture, Santa Fe Style means adobe, or... Similar Items...image of Pueblo-colonial Spanish architecture. But the present look of the city... ...the style, with the result that the architecture of Santa Fe references a prior... |
| 203. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam  Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...exploitation of French colonial architecture. This strategy contains several... Similar Items...information, and the University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City, several... ...colonial officers, and in the architecture of churches, government buildings,... |
| 204. |  | Title: Reflections of an American composer Author: Berger, Arthur 1912- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Classical Music | Contemporary Music | Composers | Musicology Publisher's Description: In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, 4th ed. (New York: Rizzoli, 1984), 44.... Similar Items...no. 2(April 1987): 7–9, 23. Jencks, The Language of Postmodern Architecture, 5n.... ...existing Ph. D. for creative work in architecture and the testimonials from the... |
| 205. |  | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritage Author: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | Travel Publisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...42. David Hancocks, Animals and Architecture (London: Hugh Evelyn, 1971), 108.... Similar Items...the dramatic text, formal theater architecture, and mimetic conventions, Antonin... ...religious observance, food, architecture, crafts) as they are integrated in... |
| 206. |  | Title: Good with their hands: boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust Belt Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Sociology | Literature | Labor Studies | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy G . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...a certain normative status as the architecture of the good life. If that... Similar Items...the downtown, and more recent architecture has been mixed into that older urban... ...Jordan? ’ or ‘Where's the architecture? ’ Chicago is the nation's premier... |
| 207. |  | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...title Nineteenth-Century Paris: Architecture and Urbanism (New York: Abbeville... Similar Items...city; see Expositions—Littérature et architecture au XIX e siècle (Paris: Corti,... ...Expositions—Literature and Architecture (Berkeley: University of California... |
| 208. |  | Title: The Advent project: the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass proper Author: McKinnon, James W 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies | Classical Religions | Christianity Publisher's Description: In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long- . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture . Rev. Richard Krautheimer and... Similar Items...My remarks about early Christian architecture are based especially on Richard... ...Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, rev. Richard Krautheimer and... |
| 209. |  | Title: Picturing Chinatown: art and orientalism in San Francisco Author: Lee, Anthony W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | California and the West | Asian American Studies | Photography | Art History Publisher's Description: This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and ma . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Montreal : Canadian Centre for Architecture , 1993 . Harris, Jonathan . Federal... Similar Items...Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1993) , 74. Frank Marryat North Bay... ...edifices that could pass for the architecture of a much more settled city—... |
| 210. |  | Title: Bad girls and sick boys: fantasies in contemporary art and culture Author: Kauffman, Linda S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | Popular Culture | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic reson . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Princeton: Princeton Papers on Architecture, 1992), 60. 76. Flaubert, Madame... Similar Items...in literature, visual art, crafts, architecture, design, and theater. While some... ...that has been transformed by architecture, fashion, advertisements, freeways,... |
| 211. |  | Title: The consumer revolution in urban China Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Urban Studies | Consumerism Publisher's Description: After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...1995. Nanjing di jianzhu (Nanjing's architecture). Nanjing: Nanjing chubanshe.... Similar Items...table 6.3, 136 , 137 table 6.4 architecture, 289 , 299 art, public. See public... ...were hierarchically ranked by architecture, function, and the type and quality... |
| 212. |  | Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal Author: Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac) 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Tibet | Hinduism | Asian History Publisher's Description: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Chariots of Nepal." In Mobile Architecture in Asia . Art and Archeology Research... Similar Items...1980. Korn, Wolfgang. The Traditional Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley .... ...1955. Sharma, Prayag Raj. "Art and Architecture." In Nepal in Perspective . Eds.... |
| 213. |  | Title: The eye expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman antiquity Author: Titchener, Frances B 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Art and Architecture | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence society. In this they were representative of a widespread consensus in ancient culture. Cultural and political impulses informed the fine arts, and these in turn shaped - and were . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...order civic consciousness by the architecture, cult statues, and friezes of the... Similar Items...idea that Augustan art and architecture are a repudiation of Hellenistic models... ...by scholars of Augustan art and architecture in particular, Augustan classicism... |
| 214. |  | Title: Women and the war story Author: Cooke, Miriam Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Gender Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History Publisher's Description: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the... Similar Items...postmodernism, 69 -71, 81 , 231 ; architecture, 114 -15 postmodern wars, 68 -... ...particularly in monumental architecture. In the Israeli occupied territories,... |
| 215. |  | Title: A critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film histor . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...black and white; silent (CC, FDK). Architecture of Berlin . 1993. 15 minutes;... Similar Items...you had studied physics and architecture. How did you get into film? Choy : Long... ...I told them I was born to study architecture. I don't know where I got that. I... |
| 216. |  | Title: The making of revolutionary Paris Author: Garrioch, David Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Ziskin, The Place Vendôme: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-... Similar Items...Marc-Antoine Laugier, An Essay on Architecture , trans. W. and A. Herrmann (Los... ...Loyer, Paris, Nineteenth Century: Architecture and Urbanism , trans. Charles... |
| 217. |  | Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...195 ; and pogroms, 199 -200, 202 -5 Architecture, 9 -10, 12 -13, 52 , 151 -52... Similar Items...Doctoral dissertation, Minsk Institute of Architecture, 1965. Vasil'ev, B. N. "... ...Imperial Building Commission, the architecture of St. Petersburg was to convey "... |
| 218. |  | Title: Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Classics | Art and Architecture | Art History | History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question - and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Architectura Vitruvius Pollio. On Architecture . Translated by Frank Granger. 2... Similar Items...Nielsen, Inge. Thermae et Balnea: The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman... ...Inge Nielsen, Thermae et Balnea: The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman... |
| 219. |  | Title: Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinations Author: Gold, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that su . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Édouard Jeanneret), Towards a New Architecture, trans. Frederick Etchells (1927;... Similar Items...complex—mummification, megalithic architecture, and the making of idols [were]... ...For much Jewish religious architecture of the Hellenistic period contradicted... |
| 220. |  | Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Architecture | China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...L. Thorp, "The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China." 29.... Similar Items...Alexander Soper. The Art and Architecture of China. 3d. ed. Baltimore: Penguin... ...and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, p. 74, figs. 42 and 43.... |