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  • The birth of modern London

    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The period 1660–1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This work for the first time examines in detail the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of ... Leer más

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  • Imagining the Jewish God

    Series series Graven Images
    Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and ... Leer más

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  • Warburg Models

    Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge

    Architectural patronage was crucial for the thinking of Aby Warburg and his circle. In Hamburg the purpose-designed Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, completed in 1926, organized Warburg's remarkable library. From 1927 Warburg developed ideas about orientation in the radical transformation of a disused water tower into the Hamburg Planetarium. After the Warburg Institute transferred to ... Leer más

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  • Ideal homes, 1918–39

    Domestic design and suburban Modernism

    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged through the architecture, design and decoration of the home, in choices such as ebony elephants ... Leer más

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    This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history.Presented ... Leer más

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  • The Making of a Cultural Landscape

    The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010

    Edición de Jason Wood, John K. Walton ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake ... Leer más

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  • The Shock of the New

    The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

    de Robert Hughes ...
    A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. ... Leer más

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  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Leer más

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  • Mies van der Rohe

    A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

    An "excellent" new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos ( Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and "the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best," while the Christian Science Monitor noted that "Schulze has both the gift of an ... Leer más

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of London

    de Richard Tames ...
    A Traveller’s History of London aims to bring London’s past alive to the resident, traveller and student, to reveal the city’s hidden treasures and forgotten places and guide the reader to the sights and sites that can still be seen and enjoyed. This Traveller’s History gives the discerning visitor a full and comprehensive historical background to the capital’s past ... Leer más

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  • Dada and Surrealism

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Hopkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea ... Leer más

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  • Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

    The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime

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    Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the history of these subjects as they come up during a typical day, starting with eating breakfast and ... Leer más

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