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Author: Pierre Larousse
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1478
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Author: Pierre Larousse
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1478
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 832
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeff Loveland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1108481094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.
Author: Pierre Larousse
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 646
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Kentridge
Publisher: David Krut Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780958486040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The publication of this book coincides with an exhibition that opened at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa in late 2004 and travels to other museums in the United States through 2007."--Cover p. 2.
Author: S. Hollis Clayson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 022659386X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower’s nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian nightlife. Though we reflect longingly on such scenes, in Illuminated Paris, Hollis Clayson shows that there’s more to these clichés than meets the eye. In this richly illustrated book, she traces the dramatic evolution of lighting in Paris and how artists responded to the shifting visual and cultural scenes that resulted from these technologies. While older gas lighting produced a haze of orange, new electric lighting was hardly an improvement: the glare of experimental arc lights—themselves dangerous—left figures looking pale and ghoulish. As Clayson shows, artists’ representations of these new colors and shapes reveal turn-of-the-century concerns about modernization as electric lighting came to represent the harsh glare of rapidly accelerating social change. At the same time, in part thanks to American artists visiting the city, these works of art also produced our enduring romantic view of Parisian glamour and its Belle Époque.
Author: Keith Houston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0393064425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
Author: Sandy Isenstadt
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 026203817X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity—instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent—is modernity's medium. Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
Author: Cathy Cassidy
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2014-02-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780141341590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoco is the youngest of the five Tanberry girls. She is always trying to save someone, whether it is a bullied boy or the giant panda. So when she discovers her favouritme pony, Caramel, needs her help she has to do something. why does Lawrie, the moodiest guy in the school, keep getting in her way? Can Coco rescue Caramel in time or is she riding into deeper trouble? (From book cover).
Author: Walter Hamilton
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 218
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