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61.	Requires cookie*	Title: Art nouveau in fin-de-siècle France: politics, psychology, and style Author: Silverman, Debora Leah Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| Art History \| French Studies \| European History \| Intellectual History Matches in book (76): ...W. , and Michael Levey. Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in... ...Bernard, and Paul Chemetov. Architectures: Paris, 1848-1914 . Paris: ICOMOS,... ...The Paris Exhibition of 1889: Architecture and the Crisis of Individualism."... Similar Items
62.	Requires cookie*	Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Cultural Anthropology \| European Studies \| Ancient History \| Philosophy \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Negative Architecture... ...Negative Architecture... ...Le Pont Flavien de Saint-Chamas: Architecture Augustéenne en Provence" (Ph.D.... Similar Items
63.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Similar Items
64.	Requires cookie*	Title: Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 Author: Benjamin, Roger 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, . . . [more] Matches in book (50): ...des arts décoratifs, vol. 2, Architecture, 48. Edmond Gojon, “L’Algérie à l’... ...Zeynep . Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century... ...Patricia . Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931... Similar Items
65.	Requires cookie*	Title: Republican Beijing: the city and its histories Author: Dong, Madeleine Yue 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong of . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...methods to preserve historical architecture” and for his “courage in taking... ...A brief introduction to modern architecture in Beijing), in Zhongguo jindai... ...Beijing pian (A review of modern architecture in China: Beijing), ed. Wang... Similar Items
66.	Requires cookie*	Title: To the rescue of art: twenty-six essays Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements.Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But rece . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...Negative Space in Architecture... ...188 , 189 Arbus, Diane, 102 n Architecture, 30 , 82 , 92 -100, 224 Aristotle,... ...Stevens, Peter S. , 96 Structure in architecture, 93 Supernatural, 219 , 227 ,... Similar Items
67.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernity Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Economics and Business \| Middle Eastern History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series o . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...a struggle to create a national architecture based on the vernacular forms of... ...Weekly, Apr. 1–8, 1998. Fathy, Architecture for the Poor, 60. For the history of... ...distinguishes the two epidemics. Architecture for the Poor, 166. Gallagher,... Similar Items
68.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| China \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...The Convergence of Architecture... ...Ming houses of Huizhou]. Beijing, Architecture Press. Zhong caoyaoxue [Chinese... ...courtyard." If imaginary and concrete architectures are considered together, if... Similar Items
69.	Requires cookie*	Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Matches in book (39): ...He spoke kindly of some of the architecture of the early Soviet period as well.... ...7. George Heard Hamilton, The Art and Architecture of Russia (Baltimore: Penguin... ...One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture (Boston: David R. Godine, 1983), 227-... Similar Items
70.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...the careful planning, thoughtful architecture, and extensive landscaping of the... ...the trappings of urban belonging—architecture such as the Space Needle, such... ...Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture: A Biography and History (New... Similar Items
71.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...Garden Architecture... ...Promoting Peaceful Uses of Architecture... ...reform. William H. Coaldrake, "Edo Architecture and Tokugawa Law," MN 36-3 (... Similar Items
72.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Boundaries of humanity: humans, animals, machines Author: Sheehan, James J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Biology \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are ad . . . [more] Matches in book (36): ...reasons from the structure of the architecture to behavior. Above all, Soar is... ...Anderson, J. R. The Architecture of Cognition. Cambridge: Harvard University... ...Knowledge and Search: The SUPREM Architecture," Artificial Intelligence 38 (... Similar Items
73.	Requires cookie*	Title: The forgotten hermitage of Skellig Michael Author: Horn, Walter William 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Architecture \| Art \| Architectural History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: This book is a dramatically told and visually stunning account of a ninth-century hermitage discovered on the South Peak of Skellig Michael, an island off the west coast of Ireland. It is the story, pieced together from fragmentary remains, study, and conjecture, of a man's attempt to live on a tiny . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...2 Norman conquest, 10 –11 Notes on Irish Architecture (Lord Dunraven), 17... ...terrace, 25 , 33 –35, 56 –57 ; architecture of, 73 n3; construction of, 32 ,... ...Arthur C. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture . London: George Bell and Sons,... Similar Items
74.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Middle Eastern History \| South Asia \| Islam Publisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more] Matches in book (39): ...3: 25–27. Percy Brown, Indian Architecture, Islamic Period , 5th ed. (Bombay: D.... ...and feedback—here reflected in architecture—closely paralleled the growth of... ...141–50. Brown, Percy . Indian Architecture, Islamic Period . 5th ed. Bombay: D.... Similar Items
75.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social order/mental disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective Author: Scull, Andrew T Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychiatry \| United States History \| European History \| Psychology Matches in book (27): ...Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum... ...Chapter Eight Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum... ...of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750–1842 . Cambridge: Cambridge... Similar Items
76.	Requires cookie*	Title: Symbols, computation, and intentionality: a critique of the computational theory of mind Author: Horst, Steven W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Psychology Publisher's Description: The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that cognitive states possess the generative and compositional properties of natural languages - has proven enormously influential in recent philosophical studies of cognition. In this carefully argued criti . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...A.3— Functional Architecture and Semiotics... ...A.7.1— Causality, Functional Architecture, and Formal Rules... ...terms (since the same functional architecture can be realized through different... Similar Items
77.	Requires cookie*	Title: LifePlace: bioregional thought and practice Author: Thayer, Robert L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Conservation \| Public Policy \| California and the West \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. LifePlace is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to l . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Landscape Architecture: The Ultimate Bioregional Art... ...landscape restoration, “green” architecture, alternative transit, urban open... ...collegiate schools of planning, architecture, and landscape architecture;there... Similar Items
78.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies \| California and the West \| Geography \| United States History Publisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more] Matches in book (39): ...the best sources for commercial architecture are the photograph collections of... ...March 1924). Edgell, G. H. The American Architecture of To-day. New York, 1928.... ...Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies. Harmondsworth,... Similar Items
79.	Requires cookie*	Title: Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Art \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture . New York : Prentice-Hall , 1989 .... ...1995), 15–29. Gülrü Necipoglu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power (Cambridge,... ...A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1989),... Similar Items
80.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century Author: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| China \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...A Museum of Global Architecture... ...in this "museum of global architecture" was no more than a filthy shantytown... ...G. China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of the Common... Similar Items

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