That aesthetics is central to Hegel’s philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. ...
Continue Reading →The 21st century will be the age of the city. Already over 50% of the world population live in urban centres and over ...
Continue Reading →Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the ...
Continue Reading →It was in fifteenth-century Florence that Brunelleschi`s buildings and Alberti`s treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice and theory. ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
Continue Reading →De Architectura, the ten books by the Roman architect Vitruvius, survives as the only complete architectural treatise from antiquity. Its influence from the ...
Continue Reading →Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French ...
Continue Reading →From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even ...
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