Belting, Looking through Duchamp’s Door
In this new book by Hans Belting, three essays are united by one theme―the persistence of perspective after its supposed demise in the hands of ...
Continue Reading →Belting, Florence and Baghdad
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point ...
Continue Reading →Aharoni, Mathematics Poetry and Beauty
What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: ...
Continue Reading →Hooks, Teaching to Transgress
In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to ...
Continue Reading →Winckelmann, History of Art
Thus Winckelmann’s project, which offered an ambitious survey of cultural history, found an eager audience in international circles comprised of Enlightenment intellectuals and cosmopolitan elites ...
Continue Reading →Winckelmann, Writings on Art
Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-68, a German scholar and art historian, was one of the most influential figures in the Neoclassical movement. In the second half ...
Continue Reading →Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, “that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed”, and the ...
Continue Reading →Da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting
The young student should, in the first place, acquire a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after ...
Continue Reading →Harris, The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human
In The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united ...
Continue Reading →Burrows, Fictioning: The Myth-functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy
Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this ...
Continue Reading →Most liked books
Hovestadt, On Digital Architecture
January 23, 2023
Scamozzi, The Idea Of A Universal Architecture
January 1, 2023Recent Comments
Categories
- _English Language 1275
- _French Language 54
- _German Language 68
- _Italian Language 54
- _Latin Language 44
- 1750-1850 64
- 17th Century 77
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy 5
- 19th century 45
- 20th Century 150
- 21th Century 75
- Aesthetics 3
- Afrofuturism 3
- Ancient Literature 37
- Anthropocene 1
- Anthropology 3
- Architectural Theory 221
- Architecture + Philosophy 33
- Architecture and Literature, Symbolism 36
- Art 13
- Art Theory 103
- Artificial Intelligence 4
- Artists in Rome 20
- Autobiography 1
- Bernini 19
- Biology 1
- Catalogue 2
- Christian Iconography 18
- Christianity 13
- Cinema 2
- City 45
- Classical 1
- Construction 1
- Contemporary 1
- Design 29
- Digital Architectonics 17
- Drawings 41
- Economy 20
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism 14
- England & British Isles 26
- Enlightenment Library 127
- Evolution 4
- Fashion 5
- Feminism 19
- Film Festival 1
- France 45
- Gender and Sexuality Studies 5
- Gothic 13
- Greek, Roman Library 92
- Historiography 40
- Humanism 11
- India 5
- Italy 79
- Landscape Architecture 8
- LGBT 1
- Libraries 0
- Linguistics 2
- Literary Criticism 6
- Literary Theory 68
- Literature 69
- Low Countries (Benelux) 14
- Mathematics 45
- Medicine 4
- medieval library 38
- medieval literature 9
- Modern 51
- Monuments + Conservation 27
- Music Theory 1
- Mysticism 4
- Mythology 18
- Nature, Ecology, Animals 3
- Neurobiology 1
- Opera 5
- Philosophy 284
- Physics 15
- Poetry 3
- Politics 70
- Popes, Vatican, Rome 27
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality 56
- Post-Modern 22
- Programming 2
- Psychology 18
- Religion 15
- Renaissance 86
- Renaissance Library 81
- Rhetorics 1
- Roman Architecture 20
- Rome 122
- Schinkel 8
- Science 52
- Sociology 19
- Sound 7
- Sources 56
- Spain 10
- Switzerland 48
- Uncategorized 70
- Urbanism 53