Archaeology Ideology And Urbanism In Rome From The Grand Tour To Berlusconi

Author : Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874599
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology, Ideology and Urbanism in Rome from the Grand Tour to Berlusconi written by Stephen L. Dyson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the complex relationship between Rome's rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.

Author : Alessandro Sebastiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009354108
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State written by Alessandro Sebastiani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Rome as a case study, this book examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity.

Author : Kristi Cheramie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317340760
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Time and the City written by Kristi Cheramie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities. Using Rome as a guide, the book follows familiar sites, geographies, and characters in search of their role within a larger narrative that includes the environmental processes required to generate enough space and material for the city, the emergent ecologies to which its buildings play host, and the social patterns its various structures help to organize. Through Time and the City argues that Rome is made and unmade by an endlessly evolving chorus that has, for better or worse, gained geological legitimacy; that the city absorbs and emits countless artifacts in its search for collective identity; that the city is a platform for the constant staging of negotiations between agents (humans, buildings, plants, animals, pathogens, goods, waste, water) that drive and are driven by the entanglements of climate and culture. This book provides textual and visual frameworks for identifying the material traces, emergent patterns, or speculated futures that expose a city as inseparable from its capacity to change.

Author : Alice Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828719
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God behind the Marble written by Alice Goff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Germans’ attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution. For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century, beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Germans struggled to uphold these ideals as they contended with the destruction of art collections, looting, and questions about cultural property. As artworks fell prey to the violence they were supposed to transcend, some began to wonder how art could deliver liberation if it could also quickly become a spoil of war. Alice Goff considers a variety of works—including forty porphyry columns from the tomb of Charlemagne, the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Laocoön group from Rome, a medieval bronze reliquary from Goslar, a Last Judgment from Danzig, and the mummified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzig—following the conflicts over the ownership, interpretation, conservation, and exhibition of German collections during the Napoleonic period and its aftermath.

Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632164
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overlooking Damage written by Jonah Siegel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge. Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, imperial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation. Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.

Author : Alessandro Sebastiani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009354134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State written by Alessandro Sebastiani and published by . This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alessandro Sebastiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009354094
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State written by Alessandro Sebastiani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Alessandro Sebastiani examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity. Using Rome as his case study, he explores how the city was transformed to accommodate different political ideologies in the period from 1870 to the end of World War II. After unification, Rome's classical architecture served as a reference point, guiding transformations of the urban fabric that met contemporary needs but also supported the agenda of the newly-formed Italian state. The advent of fascist state in the 1920s ushered in a different order of ideological placemaking. The monuments of ancient Roman were isolated in order to enhance their structural elegance, a scheme that powerfully conveyed political messages in support of Mussolini's regime. Sebastiani's volume offers a new approach to understanding the sophisticated relationships between archeology, urban planning, and politics within the city of Rome. Moreover, it highlights the consequences of suppressing historical evidence from monuments and archaeological sites.

Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521377799
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Freud written by Jerome Neu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.

Author : Fikret Yegül
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Architecture and Urbanism written by Fikret Yegül and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yegül offer a comprehensive history and analysis of the Roman built environment, emphasizing design and planning aspects of buildings and streetscapes. They explore the dynamic evolution and dissemination of architectural ideas, showing how local influences and technologies were incorporated across the vast Roman territory. They also consider how Roman construction and engineering expertise, as well as logistical proficiency, contributed to the making of bold and exceptional spaces and forms. Based on decades of first-hand examinations of ancient sites throughout the Roman world, from Britain to Syria, the authors give close accounts of many sites no longer extant or accessible. Written in a lively and accessible manner, Roman Architecture and Urbanism affirms the enduring attractions of Roman buildings and environments and their relevance to a global view of architecture. It will appeal to readers interested in the classical world and the history of architecture and urban design, as well as wide range of academic fields. With 835 illustrations including numerous new plans and drawings as well as digital renderings.

Author : Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134975
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts written by Stephen L. Dyson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divThe stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world. As archaeologist Stephen Dyson shows, Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. Accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures, this lively book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art./DIV