In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the ...
In Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. ...
The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political ...
Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe ...
Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern'from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings ...
In 1934, New Yorks Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, ...
In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a ...
This is an extraordinary book. It completely and--in my largely lay judgment--correctly reorients our thinking about where our cities and communities are going both ...
For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A ...
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses h the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic ...
The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American'and world-class'architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a ...
Our traditional image of Chicago - as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends ...
Sun Ra (1914-93)'self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the 'Angel Race,' prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism'was one of the most ...
This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenbergs writings, features three approaches to the man and his work: Greenberg as critic, doctrinaire, and theorist. The ...
