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  • Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings... Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material it considers the idea of the past in the period specifically how it was... more
  • Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings... Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material it considers the idea of the past in the period specifically how it was... more
  • Begum Samru (c.1750-1836) was a remarkable north Indian ruler who used art and... Begum Samru (c.1750-1836) was a remarkable north Indian ruler who used art and architecture to consolidate her social political and financial power in early modern India. Rising from the courtesan households of Mughal Delhi she became commander of... more
  • By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a re... By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks. This volume offers a rich study of conceptualisms mapping practices that includes more expanded forms of spatial representation.... more
  • Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who develope... Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who developed performance art as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement... more
  • Screen/Space is a collection of nine essays exploring developments in contempo... Screen/Space is a collection of nine essays exploring developments in contemporary art informed by re-readings of the history of modernist exhibition design experimental film festivals and key works in the history of structural and expanded film. more
  • Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who develope... Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who developed performance art as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement... more
  • By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a re... By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks. This volume offers a rich study of conceptualisms mapping practices that includes more expanded forms of spatial representation.... more
  • The essays gathered in this volume illuminate aspects of space and place in mo... The essays gathered in this volume illuminate aspects of space and place in modern German history. Drawing from the fields of Art History Architectural History and German Studies the chapters are built upon close analysis of specific cultural... more
  • In modern times an abstraction of the concept of Space from architecture and r... In modern times an abstraction of the concept of Space from architecture and re-imposing it again to architecture through theoretical discussions is a process by means of which many fundamental aspects of architectural space have been tampered with.... more
  • A Brief History Of The Glyptic Art And Architecture Of Japan: Together With A ... A Brief History Of The Glyptic Art And Architecture Of Japan: Together With A Brief Description Of Temples And Shrines is a historical account of the art and architecture of Japan specifically focusing on the art of glyptic. The book was written in... more
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  • What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at ti... What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology... more
  • What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at ti... What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology... more
  • The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces which are... The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces which are frozen into images objects re-presentations. Traditionally art history is written in the aftermath as representational. A different perspective on the visual arts is... more
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