The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music, Paperback - Craig L. Wilkins

DescriptionArchitecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as...

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Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. This book examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, ...

A landmark account of architectural theory and practice from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonArchitecture is distinguished from other art forms ...

Reducere. A room's acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects ...

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop o...

Reducere. "The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied, " writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seven...

Reducere. In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the...

A select international group of landscape architects and historians discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work, cont...

Reducere. This infamous book has enjoyed a lively underground reputation since its first publication in 1970. Richard Meltzer (a.k.a. R. Meltzer) took his tr...

Reducere. A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towe...

Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that env...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planner...

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Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.Publisher: University of M...

This book provides a new appreciation of the writing of John Donne by studying it through Walter Benjamin's concept of baroque allegory. Close read...

Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintin...

When NASA scientist and Chaplain John Stout accepted a position in the Apollo program at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, he said he would ...

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In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdIllustration(s): 11 illus.; 11 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 416Collection: Media in TransitionPublication dat...

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Reducere. NEW EDITION WITH LOADS OF EXTRA IMAGES Bruce Thomas was prompted to write Rough Notes when a friend told him: 'There's only one history of rock ......

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a...

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Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and in everyday life, ta...

Craig L. Blomberg offers a comprehensive survey and evaluation of contemporary critical approaches to the parables, and presents his own distinctiv...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Richard HerriottIllustration(s): 117 Line drawings, black and white; 81 Halftones, black and white; 3 Tab...

The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than si...

Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American performances to reveal theater as a place for forms of judgment that are inad...

The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?" As anyone on Broadway will tell you, th...

Reducere. Protests against racial injustice and anti-Blackness have swept across elite colleges and universities in recent years, exposing systemic racism an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Caprice HollinsAuthor: Ilsa GovanFacilitating conversations about race often involves tension, as both the facilitators and...