Scandinavian landscape and garden design is original, sophisticated and poetic. Powerfully architectural, with an emphasis on geometry and sculpture, it is an evocative and ...
Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement ...
"Nature," wrote Novalis in a poem of Fragments, "is a magical city frozen in stone." This book, instead, considers architecture as the magical transcription ...
What is happening on the young German architectural scene? Which issues are confronting the under 40s' generation? Which role does ecology or computer technology ...
Looking at 50 architects, this text provides an appraisal of the personalities which have dominated architecture from the perspective of buildings, interiors, furniture, and ...
Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For ...
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting ...
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of ...
The Value of Things" argues that society's priorities, its notions of value, are still informed by our relationship with physical objects, even though we ...
