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Architecture : comfort and energy
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ISBN: 1281188921 9786611188924 0080560601 9780080560601 9781281188922 008043004X 9780080430041 6611188924 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York ; Amsterdam : Elsevier Science,

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In this book we seek to approach the architecture-energy combination and its relationship to human comfort and the environment .There are chapters on thermal comfort, low energy architecture dealing with various criterion for comfort in different parts of the World. The book also seeks to understand how previous generations lived in harsh climates and without abundant sources of energy, yet managed to design and build appropriate dwellings providing both comfort and harmony with the environment. Other chapters deal with the bioclimatic concept in Vernacular Architecture; the major rol

Cathedrals of urban modernity : the first museums of contemporary art, 1800 - 1930.
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ISBN: 1859283837 Year: 1998 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

The Fluxus Reader.
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ISBN: 0471978582 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chichester Academy Editions

Der moderne Künstler : zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der kreativen Individualität in der kulturellen Moderne im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert.
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ISBN: 3518289527 Year: 1998 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp

Art and objecthood : essays and reviews
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ISBN: 0226263185 9780226263199 0226263193 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains twenty-seven pieces, including the influential introduction to the catalog for 'Three American Painters,' the text of his book 'Morris Louis,' and the renowned "Art and Objecthood." Originally published between 1962 and 1977, they continue to generate debate today. These are uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. Ranging from brief reviews to extended essays, and including major critiques of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, and Anthony Caro, these writings establish a set of basic terms for understanding key issues in high modernism: the viability of Clement Greenberg's account of the infralogic of modernism, the status of figuration after Pollock, the centrality of the problem of shape, the nature of pictorial and sculptural abstraction, and the relationship between work and beholder. In a number of essays Fried contrasts the modernist enterprise with minimalist or literalist art, and, taking a position that remains provocative to this day, he argues that minimalism is essentially a genre of theater, hence artistically self-defeating. For this volume Fried has also provided an extensive introductory essay in which he discusses how he became an art critic, clarifies his intentions in his art criticism, and draws crucial distinctions between his art criticism and the art history he went on to write. The result is a book that is simply indispensable for anyone concerned with modernist painting and sculpture and the task of art criticism in our time.


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Le triple jeu de l'art contemporain : sociologie des arts plastiques
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ISBN: 2707316237 9782707316233 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris : Editions de Minuit,

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Le jeu de l'art contemporain dans les arts plastiques se joue à trois partenaires. Transgressions des frontières de l'art par les artistes, réactions négatives du public, intégrations par les spécialistes engendrent des propositions un peu plus provocantes, des rejets plus violents et des institutionnalisations toujours plus sidérantes. Ainsi ne cessent de s'élargir, depuis les années cinquante, les limites de la notion de l'oeuvre d'art, à la faveur d'un mouvement conflictuel en forme de surenchère, où s'affrontent des paradigmes artistiques inconciliables. Frontières matérielles du musée, frontières mentales du consensus sur ce qui est ou n'est pas de l'art: c'est en les transgressant que les artistes les révèlent, méthodiquement, et contribuent à les déplacer. Ils s'avèrent ainsi des sociologues en acte, que le chercheur n'a qu'à suivre pas à pas pour expliciter les règles du jeu.


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Outside Lobbying : Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies
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ISBN: 0691221472 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chichester : Princeton University Press,

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In Outside Lobbying, Ken Kollman explores why and when interest group leaders in Washington seek to mobilize the public in order to influence policy decisions in Congress. In the past, political scientists have argued that lobbying groups make outside appeals primarily because of their own internal dynamics--to recruit new members, for example. Kollman, however, grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues. He interviewed more than ninety interest group leaders and policy makers active on issues ranging from NAFTA to housing for the poor. While he concludes that group leaders most often appeal to the public when they perceive that their stand has widespread popular support, he also shows that there are many important and revealing exceptions to this pattern. Kollman develops his theory of outside lobbying through a combination of rational choice modeling and statistical tests that compare public opinion data with data from his interviews about interest groups' policy positions and activities. The tests reveal that group leaders use outside lobbying to take advantage of pre-existing public preferences, not to recruit members or to try to generate the mere appearance of grass-roots support. Kollman's innovative book will clarify the complex relationship among lobbying, public opinion, and public policy, and will set a new standard for interest group research.

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