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  • Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums

    1750-1918

    Edited by Dominique Bauer, Camilla Murgia ...
    Series series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
    This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to them, as the volume demonstrates. Against this backdrop, the different chapters deal with a plethora of spaces and spatial ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces

    1750-1918

    Edited by Dominique Bauer, Camilla Murgia ...
    Series series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
    This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both national/imperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a country’s borders. What is revealed is that the same tension operates in these private and public realms; namely, that between ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Spaces of Belgian Culture

    The Public, the Private, and Strategies of Identification (c. 1850 - c. 1920)

    Edited by Dominique Bauer, Ilja Van Damme, Marjan Sterckx ...
    Series series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
    Spaces of Belgian Culture explores Belgian cultural history through the lens of its spaces and spatial dynamics, situating the country as a unique cultural crossroads amid European modernity.Positioning Belgium as a case study of nineteenth-century cultural transformation, the chapters in this book bring together insights from various disciplines. Topics include the negotiation of identity in ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Spatial Imagination and Modernity in European Francophone Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century

    Critical Interiority

    Edited by Dominique Bauer, Alexandre Dubois, Jill Cornish, Kathryn A. Haklin ...
    Series series Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
    This book explores the concept of critical interiority in literature, art, and architecture within European francophone culture, spanning the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.As a lived, imagined, or conceptualized interior space, critical interiority initially suggests a duality between interior and exterior spaces. However, this division is simultaneously destabilized, to the point ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

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    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

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  • Cafes and Bars

    The Architecture of Public Display

    Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey ...
    Series series Interior Architecture
    The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America.This volume presents and examines this significant urban ... Read more

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  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

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  • Hotel Lobbies and Lounges

    The Architecture of Professional Hospitality

    Edited by Tom Avermaete, Anne Massey ...
    Series series Interior Architecture
    This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture.Hotels occupy a particular place in popular imagination. As a place of exclusive sociability and bohemian misery, a site of crime and ... Read more

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  • Text and Image in Modern European Culture

    Edited by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, Natasha Grigorian, Thomas Baldwin ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of ... Read more

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  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    by Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Read more

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  • Observations on Urban Aesthetics

    London, Paris and New York

    by Wim Denslagen ...
    London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting to look at these cities through the eyes of travellers from the past who visited places, which have ... Read more

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  • Fashioning the City

    Paris, Fashion and the Media

    by Dr Agnès Rocamora ...
    While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies of the French capital, this original and illuminating book focuses on how the French fashion press - with its rich conjunction of words and images - has been able to construct Paris as a leading world ... Read more

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