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  • The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

    by Kevin Nute ...
    The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The book traces three recurring themes in Western accounts of Japanese architecture from the reopening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: a wish to see Western architectural theories ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited

    Traditional Japanese Culture as a Means to Modern American Architecture

    by Kevin Nute ...
    Although it has long been accepted that America's most famous architect was influenced by Japanese culture, the nature of Frank Lloyd Wright's debt to Japan has remained unclear. This book argues that Japan had a more profound impact on Wright's approach to design, and in particular on his notion of the organic, than has previously been acknowledged. It suggests that the influence of Ernest ... Read more

    $129.79 CAD

  • Naturally Animated Architecture: Using The Movements Of The Sun, Wind, And Rain To Bring Indoor Spaces And Sustainable Practices To Life

    by Kevin Nute ...
    This video-augmented book explains how the natural movements of the sun, wind and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings and raise awareness of sustainable living practices. In demonstrating how buildings can be designed to reconcile their traditional role as shelter from the elements with the active inclusion of their movement, the book shows how, in the process of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Embodied Time

    Temporal Cues in Built Spaces

    by Kevin Nute ...
    ***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the design of the indoor environments where we now spend most of our lives these priorities are typically reversed, with time often being little more than an afterthought. Embodied Time endeavors to correct that imbalance by demonstrating how built ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • This Here Now: Japanese Building And The Architecture Of The Individual

    by Kevin Nute ...
    This Here Now explains how traditional Japanese buildings respond to distinctive materials, objects and moments, and argues that the built acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm the individuality of our own being. The book also shows how buildings can help us to overcome our separateness by enabling us to share the normally subjective experiences of this, here and now. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    Art, Aesthetics & Culture

    by Patricia Graham ...
    **Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • History of Illustration

    Edited by Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, Whitney Sherman ...
    Winner of the 2019 CHOICE Award"The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo!" David Brinley, University of Delaware, USAHistory of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau

    Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

    by Carmen L. Robertson ...
    Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau a shaman artist who tapped a deep spiritual force? Or was he simply one of Canada’s most significant artists?Carmen L. Robertson charts both the colonial attitudes and the stereotypes directed at ... Read more

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  • Museum Materialities

    Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

    Edited by Sandra Dudley ...
    This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Culture of Copying in Japan

    Critical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Rupert Cox ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at the same time such a fear of their skill at artificially remaking and automating the world around them ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Embracing the East

    White Women and American Orientalism

    by Mari Yoshihara ...
    As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD