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After modern sculpture: Art in the United States and Europe 1965-70
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ISBN: 0719056519 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Brazil
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ISBN: 1282450689 9786612450686 1861896956 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Reaktion,

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Set against a backdrop of breathtaking natural beauty, Brazil's striking modernist architecture has long garnered international acclaim. But these well-known works are not fully reflective of the built environment of Brazil, and with this volume, Richard Williams unearths the rich architectural heritage of Brazil.Spanning from 1945 through today, the book examines Brazilian architecture beyond the works of renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and the "Carioca" architects of Rio de Janeiro. Williams investigates issues such as the use of historic architecture


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ISBN: 9781861894007 1861894007 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Reaktion books

The anxious city
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ISBN: 0415279275 0203490975 9780203490976 0415279267 9781134467389 9781134467426 9781134467433 9780415279260 9780415279277 1134467427 1280062835 1134467435 1283963795 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York, NY Routledge

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In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or inhabited? What does it mean? Taking England since WWII as its principal focus, this pr


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Reyner Banham revisited
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ISBN: 1789144175 9781789144178 Year: 2021 Publisher: London: Reaktion Books,

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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these areas. His 1971 book on Los Angeles was groundbreaking in what it told Californians about their own metropolis, and architects about what cities might be if freed from tradition. Banham's obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death. This book explores the full breadth of his career and his legacy, dealing not only with his major books, but a wide range of his journalism and media outputs, as well as the singular character of Banham himself.

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Postmodernisme --- Brutalisme

After modern sculpture: art in the United States and Europe 1965-70
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ISBN: 0719056500 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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The law of wills in Pennsylvania
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Year: 1903 Publisher: Philadelphia : T.& J.W. Johnson,

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Wills --- Wills


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The culture factory : architecture and the contemporary art museum
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ISBN: 9781848223974 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Lund Humphries,

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This book explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the contemporary-art museum, describing the intersection of art, aesthetics, and politics at the highest levels, and the commitment of states, cities, and wealthy individuals to the display of art. It describes museum building as the projection of political power, but also as a desire to acquire power. It is commonplace to assume that the contemporary-art museum has become ever more spectacular, and the place of art ever more subservient within it. This book argues that a tendency to spectacle coexists with another equally powerful tendency, to make art museums that celebrate the artistic process, typically attempting to recreate the feeling of the artist. Richard J. Williams's stimulating text includes many historical examples to illustrate how we got to where we are now, from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, to the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao, London's Tate Modern, Oscar Niemeyer's work in Brazil and beyond, and the 798 Art District in Beijing.

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Musées d'art


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Sex and buildings : modern architecture and the sexual revolution
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ISBN: 1780231415 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Reaktion Books,

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Massive modern skyscrapers, obelisks, towers-all are structures that, thanks to their phallic shape, are often associated with sex. But other buildings are more subtly connected, as they provide the frameworks for our sexual lives and act as reminders of our sexual memories. This relationship between sex and buildings mattered more than ever in the United States and Europe during the turbulent twentieth century, when a culture of unprecedented sexual frankness and tolerance emerged and came to dominate many aspects of public life. Part architectural history, part cultural history, and part tra


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Reyner Banham revisited
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ISBN: 1789144205 Year: 2021 Publisher: London, England : Reaktion Books,

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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these areas. His 1971 book on Los Angeles was groundbreaking in what it told Californians about their own metropolis, and architects about what cities might be if freed from tradition. Banham's obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death. This book explores the full breadth of his career and his legacy, dealing not only with his major books, but a wide range of his journalism and media outputs, as well as the singular character of Banham himself.

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