Reading architectural history / / Dana Arnold
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| Autore: |
Arnold Dana
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| Titolo: |
Reading architectural history / / Dana Arnold
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 720/.7/22 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architecture - Historiography |
| Architecture - England - 18th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | 21.60 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history and how should we read it?Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain. Discursive essays consider a range of writing |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading architectural history |
| ISBN: | 0-415-25050-1 |
| 1-134-53232-6 | |
| 1-280-05669-X | |
| 0-203-16447-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450772403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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