The first section of the book consists of six rigorously argued essays that investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, “masculine and ...
Continue Reading →In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach ...
Continue Reading →Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass’s translation of Filippo Baldinucci’s Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in ...
Continue Reading →The ‘rediscovery’ in sixteenth-century Italy of Aristotle’s Poetics marks a crucial moment in the development of Western thought about literature, for the flood ...
Continue Reading →A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and ...
Continue Reading →‘French Classicism’ remains an oddly elusive concept, not least because there appears to be an unbridgeable divide between the undisputed greatness of the ...
Continue Reading →Lina Bolzoni’s impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original ...
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