Unprecedented Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unprecedented Realism write by K. Michael Hays. This book was released on 1995. Unprecedented Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost two decades the work of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti has remained at the forefront of theoretical production. Their rigorously detailed and exquisitely drawn projects characterize an attitude of aesthetic realism towards materials, construction, function, and the cultural role of architecture. Yet the conditions they address, and the effects they produce, are unprecedented. Their projects synthesize seemingly incompatible images, uses, and typologies. Unprecedented Realism is not an illustration of theory. Rather, what emerges is a constructive theory of architecture that understands the process of design itself as a distinct mode of knowledge—as theoretical research that is still irreducibly architectural. Unprecedented Realism presents both buildings and urban infrastructures: Steps of Providence, RI; Entrance for Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Carnegie-Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh; Pershing Square, Los Angeles; and Times Square, New York City. Along with the analytic text of K. Michael Hays, the volume includes critical essays by Alan Colquhoun, George Baird, Fars el-Dahdah, and Rodolphe el-Khoury (please see the Table of Contents).
Reconstructing Architecture
Reconstructing Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Architecture write by Thomas A. Dutton. This book was released on . Reconstructing Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Realist Theory of Art History
A Realist Theory of Art History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Realist Theory of Art History write by Ian Verstegen. This book was released on 2013-01-03. A Realist Theory of Art History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified, multi-causal account of art history that addresses postmodern concerns while saving it from its errors of self-refutation. Building from the very basic distinction between intransitive being and transitive knowing, objects can be affirmed as real while our knowledge of them is held to be fallible. Several focused chapters address basic problems while introducing philosophical reflection into art history. These include basic ontological distinctions between society and culture, general and “special” history, the discontinuity of cultural objects, the importance of definition for special history, scales, facets and fiat objects as forms of historical structure, the nature of evidence and proof, historical truth and controversies. Stressing Critical Realism as the stratified, multi-causal approach needed for productive research today in the academy, this book creates the subject of the ontology of art history and sets aside a theoretical space for metaphysical reflection, thus clarifying the usually muddy distinction between theory, methodology, and historiography in art history.
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature write by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. This book was released on 2013-03. Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak’s exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies.
Hard Core
Hard Core - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hard Core write by Linda Williams. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Hard Core available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the history of pornographic films, discusses what they reveal about attitudes towards sexuality, and considers the censorship issue
