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GUBBIO STUDIOLO AND ITS CONSERVATION. 2 VOLS. "VOL 2: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE INTARSIA AND THE CONSERVATION"

The Gubbio studiolo, a small private study that is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance intarsia, was reinstalled in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

REGAINING PARADISE. ENGLISHNESS AND THE EARLY GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT *

This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, ...

WORLD OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IN SEVENTEENTH- CENTURY ENGLAND, THE

This engaging and beautifully illustrated book take us back to the domestic world of the landed gentry in seventeenth-century England. Relating countless stories and ...

FAREWELL TO AN IDEA. EPISODES FROM A HISTORY OF MODERNISM**

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, ...

INSIDE MODERNISM. RELATIVITY THEORY, CUBISM, NARRATIVE **

In this engaging book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. ...

REPTON: HUMPHRY REPTON. LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF GEORGIAN ENGLAND

An examination of the career and work of Humphrey Repton, landscape gardener of later Georgian England. It charts Repton's vision of England, how his ...

SOANE: JOHN SOANE. AN ACCIDENTAL ROMANTIC *

John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life ...

GREAT HOUSEHOLD IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, THE

An investigation of life in the great household of late mediaeval England. Based on household accounts and related primary documents, it looks at the ...

PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, THE*

ARCHITECTURE AND THE BURDENS OF LINEARITY

In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and ...

GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE MECHANICAL AGE *

Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's private collection of 20th-century posters, adverts, photomontages and graphic ephemera, this book showcases over 200 examples of progressive graphic ...

FINNISH MODERN DESIGN .*

This beautiful book examines the design achievements of Finland over the last seven decades, focusing on the central and decisive role played by Modernism. ...

ON ABSTRACT ART **

LENGUAGE OF TWENTIETH - CENTURY ART, THE "A CONCEPTUAL HISTORY"

Recent theory has tended to understand the meaning of art primarily as a function of original contexts of production and reception or in its ...

SEBASTIANO SERLIO ON ARCHITECTURE. VOL. ONE *

Few Renaissance theorists have influenced the development of western architecture as much as Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554). The collection of books which represents his lifetime's ...

ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF BIRDS, THE *

This text is a comprehensive and illustrated discussion of the origin of birds and of avian flight. Ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia, author ...

EMPRESS & THE ARCHITECT. BRITISH ARCHITECTURE AND GARDENS AT THE COURT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT

Weaving together the biographies of the Scottish architect Charles Cameron and Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, this work focuses mainly on the story ...

TOWER BLOCK. MODERN PUBLIC HOUSING IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND *

FLESH AND THE IDEAL

Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the ...

ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES IN THE AGE OF HISTORICISM

Explores the relationship between architectural history and the current practice of architecture. The authors draw on insights from anthropology, ancient history, theology, philosophy and ...