Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely ...
Continue Reading →Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural ...
Continue Reading →The so-called Sienese sketchbook of the famous architect and engineer Giuliano da Sangallo was originally in the library of Sienese scholar Giovanni Antonio Pecci. The ...
Continue Reading →One of history’s most published architectural treatises, this Renaissance volume solidified the architectural canon of the past five centuries. In these pages, the distinguished architect ...
Continue Reading →The first complete modern translation of Bruno’s “De Imaginum Signorum et Idearum Composition,” first published in 1591, a complex multilevel work that incorporates astrology, hermetic, ...
Continue Reading →Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and ...
Continue Reading →Introduction by Mohsen Mostafavi The late Robin Evans (1944-1993) was a highly original historian of architecture whose writings covered a wide range of ...
Continue Reading →A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund ...
Continue Reading →If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed ...
Continue Reading →A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French ...
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