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81.	Requires cookie*	Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| Art Theory \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics \| Political Theory \| History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT... ...to radical constructivism in architecture and the visual arts could emerge. This... ...on whether the critic stresses architecture and the visual arts, with their... Similar Items
82.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Gender Studies \| Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Dance Architecture... ...Adolphe, 16 Aragon, Louis, 247 architecture, relation to dance, 367 -71 Arco,... ...graphic arts; sculpture; cinema; architecture; photography asexuality, in dance,... Similar Items
83.	Requires cookie*	Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...As porous as this stone is the architecture. Building and action interpenetrate... ...thus and not otherwise." This is how architecture, the most binding part of the... ...is the locus of transparency in architecture, it is also at the origin of the... Similar Items
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern France Author: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...Development of French Historicist Architecture." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia... ...The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture." American Historical Review 77 (... ...Zanten, David. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and... Similar Items
85.	Requires cookie*	Title: Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes Author: Bergeron, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...was the origin of a national architecture, the medieval liturgy became, by a... ...76 -77; and revival of Gothic architecture, 5 , 7 , 10 , 18 -19 Vitet, Ludovic,... ...Emmanuel. The Foundations of Architecture: Selections from the "Dictionnaire... Similar Items
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...224 n. 70 Chichen Itza, 123 -31 architecture, 123 -24, 236 n. 88 arms and armor,... ...n. 22, 260 n. 8 Talud-tablero architecture, 57 Tamales, 188 n. 81 Tamarindito,... ...107 -108, 226 n. 90, 229 n. 121 architecture, 106 , 223 n. 62 area, 226 n. 85,... Similar Items
87.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between republic and empire: interpretations of Augustus and his principate Author: Raaflaub, Kurt A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship - historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics - the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. Matches in book (16): ...Architecture... ...Reflections on the Early Provincial Architecture of the Roman West," JRS 60 (... ...Ward-Perkins, Roman Imperial Architecture (Harmondsworth 1985) 227. G. Charles-... Similar Items
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...A Layered Defense: The SDI Architecture... ...cooperate with the United States on architecture studies for the theater (which... ...formed to develop a more detailed "architecture." The result was the design of... Similar Items
89.	Requires cookie*	Title: Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Author: Ryan, Mary P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Urban Studies \| Gender Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the nineteenth-century city in this ambitious retelling of a key period of American political and social history. Basing her analysis on three quite different cities - New York, New Orleans, and Sa . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...Louise, et al. , eds. New Orleans Architecture . 3 vols. Gretna, La. : Pelican... ...of Real Estate, Building, and Architecture in New York City . 1898. Reprint, New... ...1992. Reynolds, Donald Martin. The Architecture of New York City: Histories and... Similar Items
90.	Requires cookie*	Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II Author: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...space composition Lajos Kassák: Picture Architecture Constantin Brancusi * : ... ...1990. Devitsil: Czech Avant-garde Art, Architecture, and Design of the 1920s and... ...J. M. Dent. Knox, Brian. 1971. The Architecture of Poland . New York: Praeger.... Similar Items
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Geography \| French Studies \| European Studies \| Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...THE ARCHITECTURE OF GRANDEUR... ...the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century... ...through metaphors of ecology and architecture as well as through metaphors of... Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Intellectual History \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...Ronald N. Walpole, 1953–60, French William W. Wurster, 1952–53, Architecture... ...Violich, City Planning H. Leland Vaughan, Landscape Architecture William W.... ...Wurster, College of Architecture (chair, 1953–55) Richard Jennings, Law (chair,... Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies \| History \| Intellectual History \| European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...Building Modern Italy: Italian Architecture, 1914–36 . Princeton : Princeton... ...Richard . Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890–1940 . Cambridge : Cambridge... ...Colonial Constructions: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Colonialism . London :... Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the rest Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...coincidence am I now concerned with architecture, the most lasting of tangible... ...to apply these functional shapes to architecture. This is what led him to create... ...monstrous miscarriages of nature. Architecture not only exhibits expression but... Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...Oxford, 1962. ———. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. Harmondsworth,... ...and E. H. Ter Kuile. Art and Architecture in Belgium, 1600-1800. Harmondsworth,... ...1965. Harris, C. Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. New York, 1975.... Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Postcolonial Studies \| European History \| African History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature . Durham, N.C. :... ...Antonioni, Michelangelo . The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on... ...to build "a luminous lyrical architecture with the pieces of life that destiny... Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| United States History \| Christianity Publisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...and Son, 1830. "New York Church Architecture." Putnam's Monthly 2 (Sept. 1853).... ...of disestablishment on Virginia church architecture is indebted to Upton, Holy... ...Jarves, James Jackson. Art-Hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting . New... Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Cultural Anthropology \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...What is most interesting about the architecture and landscape of Bent's Old Fort... ...painting, the plastic arts and architecture. It concerns aspects of aesthetic... ...Fe. Humans bring with them their architecture as well, which mirrors the sublime... Similar Items
99.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Intellectual History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Matches in book (19): ...inhabiting not only colonial urban architecture, methods of instruction, or... ...1967-85), 4: 64-74; David King, 'Architecture and astronomy: the ventilators of... ...104 (1984): 97-133. 68. King, 'Architecture and astronomy'. 69. Raymond, Grandes... Similar Items
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Memorials, Not Monuments." Progressive Architecture 66 (September 1985): 43 ff.... ...York: Knopf, 1977. Eco, Umberto. "Architecture and Memory." Via 8 (1986): 88-94.... ...1939. Creighton, Thomas H. The Architecture of Monuments: The Franklin Delano... Similar Items

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