Modern Architecture Since 1900, Paperback - William J R Curtis

Classic text on this subject, now revised, updated, expanded and redesigned for this third edition. There are many new illustrations too, including...

Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive study of Le Corbusier

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Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Dr. Penelope CurtisIllustration(s): 8 colour, 60 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2006Dimens...

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The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world t...

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Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Michael SchmidtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: ...

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

The overlap between periods of technological development that are misleadingly delineated is explored in this investigation of the use of invention...

This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition,...

Aims to bring to life the great dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, and the student and worker revolt of 19...

Ideas defer to no border--least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes ...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

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Interior design experienced an extraordinary amount of changes in taste and style during the twentieth century. From William Morris and the Arts an...

A new edition of this hugely successful international survey covering all aspects of fashion, organized around crucial shifts in style and major wo...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on ...

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DescriptionThe city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concr...

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The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

"Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his ...

A compendium of the most innovative and influential residential buildings in the United States since 1900.

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How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that...

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A stage adaptation of the well-known screenplay which starred Judi Dench and Maggie Smith on film.