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Architecture, Modern --- Eclecticism in architecture

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Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explore this important aspect of Mexican art, in which visual culture and power relations unite the local and the global, the national and the international, the universal and the particular. She argues that in Mexico, as in other colonized regions, colonization constructed power dynamics and forms of violence that persisted in the independent nation-state. Accordingly, Fernández presents not only the visual qualities of objects, but also the discourses, ideas, desires, and practices that are fundamental to the very existence of visual objects. Fernández organizes episodes in the history of Mexican art and architecture, ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century, around the consistent but unacknowledged historical theme of cosmopolitanism, allowing readers to discern relationships among various historical periods and works that are new and yet simultaneously dependent on their predecessors. She uses case studies of art and architecture produced in response to government commissions to demonstrate that established visual forms and meanings in Mexican art reflect and inform desires, expectations, memories, and ways of being in the world—in short, that visual culture and cosmopolitanism are fundamental to processes of subjectification and identity.

Art, Mexican --- Architecture --- Eclecticism in art --- Eclecticism in architecture --- National characteristics, Mexican. --- Themes, motives. --- Art --- History of civilization --- Mexico

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"Eclecticism is a concept widely used in the history of ancient philosophy to describe the intellectual stance of diverse thinkers such as Plutarch, Cicero and Seneca. In this book the historical and interpretative problems associated with eclecticism are for the first time approached from the point of view of the only self-described eclectic philosopher from antiquity, Potamo of Alexandria. The evidence is examined in detail with reference to the philosophical and wider intellectual background of the period. Potamo's views are placed in the context of key debates at the forefront of late Hellenistic philosophical activity to which he contributed, such as the criterion of truth, the first principles in physics, the moral end and the interpretation of Aristotle's esoteric works. The emergence of eclecticism is thus treated in connection with the major shift in philosophical interests and methods that marked the passage from Hellenistic to Imperial philosophy"--

Eclecticism --- Eclectisme --- History --- Histoire --- Potamo, --- Potamon, --- Philosophy --- Potamóne, --- Arts and Humanities --- History.

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An exhaustive monograph on the eminent architect, emblematic of Milanese, and also Italian, 20th-century architectural and figurative culture. Celebrated in the 1930s, controversial and forgotten during the postwar period, and finally rediscovered today, Piero Portaluppi was an undisputed protagonist of 20th-century Italian architecture. An eclectic protagonist who steered clear of specific styles and schools, a master of hydroelectric architecture, and a great town planner whose projects changed the face of Milan. Produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, this new exhaustive monograph comprises a large photo album with new colour images of Portaluppi’s architectural projects and interiors, taken by the well-known photographer Ciro Frank Schiappa; three previously unpublished essays, illustrated with vintage photos by Antonio Paoletti; views and models of Portaluppi’s projects; items documenting his personal interests (cartoons, diagrams, sundials, postcards, newspaper cuttings). The volume also features an interview with Portaluppi’s nephew, architect Piero Castellini, by the famous film director Luca Guadagnino; an unpublished essay by architect Paolo Portoghesi; a biography of Piero Portaluppi by Jacopo Ghilardotti; a list of works and a bibliography compiled by Ferruccio Lupi, conservator at Fondazione Piero Portaluppi. This monograph, produced in collaboration with Fondazione Portaluppi, features a new photographic campaign and previously unpublished essays.

Architecture --- Portaluppi, Pierro, --- Eclecticism in architecture --- Portaluppi, Piero, 1888-1967 --- Architecture -- Italie

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Hunt, formé en France, a introduit en Amérique l'enseignement des Beaux-Arts, à une époque où notre école était la première du monde. Son œuvre toute entière fait d'ailleurs référence à la culture et à la tradition française. (...) L'histoire de Hunt est donc celle d'un aller-retour, d'un prêté pour un rendu: si nous pouvons facilement voir dans ses œuvres la marque de la formation française, on ne peut pas ignorer non plus l'écho qu'a eu dans notre pays sa production outre-atlantique notamment, dans le domaine de l'architecture de bureaux, où l'Amérique a été novatrice

Hunt, Richard Morris, --- Eclecticism in architecture --- Exhibitions. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 72.071 HUNT --- CDL --- Beaux-Arts architecture --- Beaux-Arts design --- Architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Hunt, R. M. --- Exhibitions