Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French ...
Continue Reading →In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by ...
Continue Reading →Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
Continue Reading →An examination of recent developments in architecture, its” present commitment to a social and technological polemic notwithstanding, would reveal that aspects of painting ...
Continue Reading →A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and ...
Continue Reading →More than 35 years after first encountering one another in Manhattan at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (which Peter Eisenman had ...
Continue Reading →From the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and ...
Continue Reading →Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that ...
Continue Reading →Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents,Peter Cook, is an established ...
Continue Reading →Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native ...
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