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Psychosocial Spaces
Author | : Steven J. Gores |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814326633 |
"He next examines Sophia Lee's novel The Recess, along with prints and sketches of ruins, to place the monastic ruin at the focus of desire to repress discontinuity in the past, which in turn permitted individuals to conceive of constructing identity based on genealogy. Then, through a study of Henry Fielding's Amelia, he discusses portrait miniatures and silhouettes as fetishized symbols of erotic ties, showing how images of a beloved, with their promises for the future, were used as a basis for constructing individual identity."--Jacket.
Publication
Author | : American Sociological Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Follies in America
Author | : Kerry Dean Carso |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-08-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1501755943 |
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
Papers and Proceedings
Author | : American Sociological Society. Meeting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
"Index to the Sociological papers and reports of the American Sociological Society, 1906-1930;" v. 25, p. 226-258.
Megastructure
Author | : Reyner Banham |
Publisher | : The Monacelli Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1580935400 |
A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike. It is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is primordial. Megastructure is what it sounds like: a vastly scaled edifice that can contain potentially countless uses, contexts, and adaptations. Theorized and briefly experimented with in built form in the 1960s, megastructures almost as quickly went out of fashion in the profession. But Reyner Banham's 1976 book compiled the origin stories and ongoing mythos of this visionary movement, seeking to chart its lively rise, rapid fall, and ongoing meaning. Now back in print after decades and with original editions fetching well over $100 on the secondary market, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past is part of the recent surge in attention to this quixotic form, of which some examples were built but to this day remains--decades after its codification--more of a poetic idea than a real architectural type. Banham, among the most gifted and incisive architectural critics and historians of his time, sought connections between theoretical origins in Le Corbusier's more starry-eyed drawings to the flurry of theories by the Japanese Metabolist architects, to less intentional examples in military architecture, industry, infrastructure, and the emerging instances in pop culture and art. Had he written the book a few years later he would find an abundance of examples in speculative art and science fiction cinema, mediums where it continues to provoke wonder to this day. A long-sought study by an author who combined imagination, wit, and pioneering scholarship, the republication of Megastructure is an opportunity for scholars and laypeople alike to return to the origins of this fantastic urban idea.
The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective
Author | : Margaret Sanger |
Publisher | : Inkling Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781587420085 |
Today's heated debates over social issues such as abortion, birth control, ethnicity, immigration, race, religion, sexual behavior, and welfare did not begin in the 1960s. They began in the last years of the nineteenth century and reached their zenith in the 1920s, when this book sold over 200,000 copies. Here is all the text of Margaret Sanger's 1922 best-seller along with 31 chapters by her contemporaries to set what she advocated in historical perspective. This is not history told after the fire and passion have died out. These are words spoken in the heat of battle, at a time when Sanger and others believed that the fate of civilization depended on their ideas winning acceptance here and around the world.
A Fractured Landscape of Modernity
Author | : J. Wilkes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 113728708X |
This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'new nature writing'. In doing so it opens up new ways of reading modernist artists and writers such as Vanessa Bell, Mary Butts and Paul Nash.