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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fathering the nation: American genealogies of slavery and freedom Author: Castronovo, Russ 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Inscribing his separation into the architecture of the past, Brown makes... ...I want to read and dismantle the architecture of national narrative and examine... ...sprang up in painting, literature, architecture, and biography. The panoramas of... Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: The city in literature: an intellectual and cultural history Author: Lehan, Richard Daniel 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| Urban Studies \| Intellectual History \| Geography Publisher's Description: This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Frank Lloyd Wrights organic sense of architecture owed much to Jefferson. 3... ...Space: Toward the Roots of Western Architecture . New York: Von Nostrand, 1992.... ...Bataille, Georges. Against Architecture, translated by Betsy Wing. Cambridge,... Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Spanish redemption: heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande Author: Montgomery, Charles H 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentie . . . [more] Matches in book (79): ...Architecture and Civilization... ...Mission Architecture and Colonial Civility, 1904–1920... ...Tourism and Architecture in New Mexico... Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Matches in book (76): ...Invisible Architecture: Choreography, Time, and Space... ...Muslim Space and the Practice of Architecture... ...in British and American Art and Architecture, 1500–1920. New York: Cambridge... Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress Author: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Art History \| Architectural History \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more] Matches in book (73): ...Hybrid Fantasy Architecture... ...208 , 210 , 212 hybrid fantasy architecture, 190 -91, 191 , 192 , 193 -94, 226 -... ...colonial exhibit showing typical architecture and artifacts. Often, the natives... Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I Author: Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| European History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Classics \| Art History Publisher's Description: Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the con . . . [more] Matches in book (92): ...NEO-ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE... ...ORIENTALISM AND ISLAMIC ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND ARCHAEOLOGY-CHAPTER 6... ...classical revival in imperial architecture. Madge Dresser, “Britannia,” in... Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| Labor Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...articulate and form a kind of architecture in the agents' minds; rather, it is... ...Another German manual on industrial architecture, published in 1901, judged that... ...rights to employment, and even mill architecture. The dissimilarities pervaded... Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of form Author: Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Economics and Business \| Social Science \| Architecture \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown . . . [more] Matches in book (78): ...planning, 28 , 283 modernist design/architecture, 24 , 56 -67, 97 , 251 , 278 -... ...Le Corbusier. 1927. Towards a New Architecture. New York: Payson & Clarke. ——.... ...Models for Public Spaces. Landscape Architecture 78(1): 40-43. ——. 1989. Public... Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: The New World of the gothic fox: culture and economy in English and Spanish America Author: Véliz, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the devel . . . [more] Matches in book (79): ...Leone Battista. Ten Books on Architecture. Edited by J. Rykwert, English... ...Blunt, Anthony, ed. Baroque and Rococo: Architecture and Decoration . New York:... ...1948. Bottineau, Yves. Living Architecture: Iberian-American Baroque . English... Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: The life of Buddhism Author: Reynolds, Frank 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Buddhism Publisher's Description: Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...include such diverse items as temple architecture and iconography, consecration... ...extant specimens of early Japanese architecture, is more than atoned for by the... ...A great deal of Buddhist art and architecture displays visual images associated... Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: Window shopping: cinema and the postmodern Author: Friedberg, Anne Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Popular Culture \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences - photography, urban st . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...Passage Three— Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Backward... ...Passage Three— Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Backward... ...Eugene, 102 ; ill. 78 Atriums. See Architecture: iron and glass Au bonheur des... Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950 Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more] Matches in book (68): ...some splendid things. . . . in architecture here in Los Angeles there are a few... ...David Gebhard California architecture has enjoyed an international renown since... ...A mention of California and its architecture brings to mind the work in Northern... Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness Author: Ascott, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory \| Electronic Media Publisher's Description: Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compil . . . [more] Matches in book (77): ...THE ARCHITECTURE OF CYBERCEPTION... ...pp. 239–40). —Ed. Roy Ascott, "The Architecture of Cyberception" (1994), chapter... ...in some good sense lean towards architecture, which is, of course, the art of... Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fate of place: a philosophical history Author: Casey, Edward S 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy \| Architecture \| Intellectual History \| Geography Publisher's Description: In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philos . . . [more] Matches in book (102): ...to the strictly physical factor in architecture. 161. Ibid. , sec. 10. Derrida... ...Charles Moore, Body, Memory, and Architecture (New Haven: Yale University Press,... ...textural metaphor as applied to architecture—preferring Deleuze's nomadological... Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Art Theory \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Matches in book (59): ...include women's relationship with architecture as users and patrons and would... ...Kanes Weisman , eds. The Sex of Architecture. New York : Harry N. Abrams ,... ...Danze, and Carol Henderson . Architecture and Feminism. New York : Princeton... Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Dance \| Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Architecture... ...Architecture... ...for their food supply. Even their architecture is predetermined by the necessity... Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Popular Culture \| Art \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...Gallet, Michel. Paris Domestic Architecture of the Eighteenth Century . London,... ...Paris, 1972. Braham, Allan. The Architecture of the French Enlightenment .... ...we mean to designate not only the architecture of Bernini and Borromini, or an... Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making the invisible visible: a multicultural planning history Author: Sandercock, Leonie 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Geography \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Architecture \| Physical Anthropology Publisher's Description: The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices an . . . [more] Matches in book (53): ...Master's thesis, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University... ...Master's thesis, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University... ...Frampton, Kenneth. 1980. Modern Architecture: A Critical History. New York:... Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: The visual culture of American religions Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Art \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals in recent years, giving the impression that art and religion are fundamentally at odds. Yet historically, artistic images have played a profound role in American religious life. This superb collection of essays, with its . . . [more] Matches in book (63): ...ARCHITECTURE AS COMMUNITY SERVICE... ...Curl, James Stevens . The Art and Architecture of Free Masonry . Woodstock,... ...Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture . Exh. cat. Berkeley : Magnes Museum ,... Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition: politicized art under late socialism Author: Erjavec, Aleš Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Intellectual History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...Tibor Szalai, or Abstract Experimental Architecture... ...Szalai and Istvá n Kotsis, BSCH Architecture, 1984, paper, 120 × 50 × 70 cm.... ...Szalai and István Kotsis, BSCH Architecture, 1984, paper, 120 × 50 × 70 cm.... Similar Items

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