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  • Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past

    Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism

    by Caroline van Eck ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although they were among the most sought-after and prestigious of his works, and fetched enormous prices during Piranesi's life, they suffered a steep ... Read more

    $60.39 CAD

  • Dealing with the Visual

    Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture

    by Caroline van Eck, Edward Winters ...
    One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners of art history, visual culture and aesthetics is whether the visual is a unique, irreducible category, or whether it can be assimilated with the textual or verbal without any significant loss. Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Germain Boffrand

    Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations and Sections of some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries

    by Caroline van Eck ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Germain Boffrand was one of the great French architects of the early eighteenth century. His work encompassed not only the design of town and country houses for the wealthy but also mines, bridges and hospitals. His Livre d’Architecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Taking the Art of Poetry by the Latin poet Horace ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Junko Kitanaka, Eugene Raikhel, Mara Buchbinder, Jocelyn Lim Chua, Stefan Ecks, Denielle Elliott, Michele Friedner0, Duana Fullwiley1, Paul Wenzel Geissler2, T.S. Harvey3, Gideon Lasco4, Peter Mangesho5, Caroline Meier zu Biesen6, Todd Meyers7, Vera Ngowi8, Michelle Pentecost9, Ruth Prince0, Christine Sargent1, Harris Solomon2, Lulu Tessua3, Anitha Tingira4, Ayo Wahlberg5, Emily Yates-Doerr6 ...
    Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images

    Constructing Wonders

    Edited by Stijn Bussels, Caroline Van Eck, Bram Van Oostveldt ...
    The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens' Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • British Architectural Theory 1540-1750

    An Anthology of Texts

    Edited by Caroline van Eck ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was published in 2003.Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large corpus of writing on architecture pre-dating the introduction of Palladianism by Lord Burlington. Some of it, such as the English editions of Serlio and Palladio, belongs to the Vitruvian tradition. But many texts elude such easy ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD

  • Provenance in Architecture

    A Dictionary

    by Elif Akyüz, Carson Chan, Nicholas Olsberg, Uwe Fleckner, Mari Lending, Tim Anstey, Richard Anderson, Thordis Arrhenius, Eirik Bøhn0, Craig Buckley1, Maristella Casciato2, Flavia Crisciotti3, Jérôme Denis4, Martin Denoun5, Caroline von Eck6, Dag Erik Elgin7, Ella Eßlinger8, Adrian Forty9, Christoph Grafe0, Nina Lucia Groß1, Niall Hobhouse2, Olivia Horsfall Turner3, Mari Hvattum4, Timothy Hyde5, Amandine Kastler6, Margit Kern7, Markus Lähteenmäki8, Erik Langdalen9, Adam Lowe0, Rosa Lowinger1, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes2, Thomas McQuillan3, Wallis Miller4, Simon Mitchell5, Matthew Mullane6, Bernd Nicolai7, Jorge Otero-Pailos8, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen9, Aileen Ramm0, Alena Beth Rieger1, Ingrid Dobloug Roede2, Lynn Rother3, Charles Saumarez Smith4, Frank Schmitz5, Erlend Skjeseth6, Chelsea Spencer7, Hugh Strange8, Jørgen Tandberg9, Yuning Teng0, Victor Plahte Tschudi1, Philip Ursprung2, Espen Vatn3, Nick Walkley4, Ines Weizman5, Matthew Wells6, Richard Wittman7, Albena Yaneva8, Claire Zimmerman9, Jens Johan Tandberg0, Øystein Arbo studio1 ...
    The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

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  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

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  • The Ideal City

    Its Architectural Evolution in Europe

    by Helen Rosenau ...
    The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a concept which has profoundly influenced the western world throughout history, both as a regulative model and as an inspiration.Rosenau traces the progress of the concept from biblical sources through ... Read more

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  • Greek Art: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ioannis Mylonopoulos ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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