Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141036
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.
Corridors
Author: Roger Luckhurst
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141036
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141036
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.
Passage to Modernity
Author: Louis K. Dupré
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300065015
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernism? Dupre challenges both these assumptions, discussing the roots, development and impact of modern thought and tracing the principles of modernity to the late 14th century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300065015
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernism? Dupre challenges both these assumptions, discussing the roots, development and impact of modern thought and tracing the principles of modernity to the late 14th century.
Passages to Modernity
Author: Kathleen S. Uno
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas.
Passages in Modern Sculpture
Author: Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262610339
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262610339
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
Becoming Chinese
Author: Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A splendid essay collection focusing on ordinary people in the chaotic post-emperor, pre-Communist period of China's history.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A splendid essay collection focusing on ordinary people in the chaotic post-emperor, pre-Communist period of China's history.
The Age of the Efendiyya
Author: Lucie Ryzova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199681775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199681775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952.
Geomodernisms
Author: Laura Doyle
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term "geomodernisms" indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization (in revolutionary and nationalist settings, and with respect to race and nativism); and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, the gender-determined.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term "geomodernisms" indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization (in revolutionary and nationalist settings, and with respect to race and nativism); and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, the gender-determined.
After Modernity-- What?
Author: Thomas C. Oden
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310753910
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310753910
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.
Modernity and Re-enchantment
Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812304401
Category : Social Science
Languages : vi
Pages : 506
Book Description
Covers shared logics of spiritual efficacy across a range of practices, which include ancestor veneration, spirit mediumship, Buddhist sectarianism and Catholic myths and miracles. Defines, documents, and discusses each issue relating to Vietnam studies.
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812304401
Category : Social Science
Languages : vi
Pages : 506
Book Description
Covers shared logics of spiritual efficacy across a range of practices, which include ancestor veneration, spirit mediumship, Buddhist sectarianism and Catholic myths and miracles. Defines, documents, and discusses each issue relating to Vietnam studies.
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Author: Michael Allen Gillespie
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459606124
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life- and that they did so not out of hostility but in order to sustain certain religious beliefs. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as the result of a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459606124
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life- and that they did so not out of hostility but in order to sustain certain religious beliefs. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as the result of a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.