Forster Collection

Forster Collection
Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1888
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, Or, Practical Aesthetics

Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, Or, Practical Aesthetics
Author: Gottfried Semper
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 996
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892365975

The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen Künsten (1860-62), here translated into English for the first time. A richly illustrated survey of the technical arts (textiles, ceramics, carpentry, masonry), Semper's analysis of the preconditions of style forever changed the interpretative context for aesthetics, architecture, and art history. Style, Semper believed, should be governed by historical function, cultural affinities, creative free will, and the innate properties of each medium. Thus, in an ambitious attempt to turn nineteenth-century artistic discussion away from historicism, aestheticism, and materialism, Semper developed in Der Stil a complex picture of stylistic change based on scrutiny of specific objects and a remarkable grasp of cultural variety. Harry Francis Mallgrave's introductory essay offers an account of Semper's life and work, a survey of Der Stil, and a fresh consideration of Semper's landmark study and its lasting significance.

Ehud's Dagger

Ehud's Dagger
Author: James Holstun
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789608236

In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.