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Reflections on Baroque
From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim Turkey. Architecture, paintings, poetry, music, natural science and new forms of piety all have their places on the Baroque map. In this surprising reinterpretation of the Baroque, Robert Harbison offers new readings that stress it…
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Travels in the History of Architecture
Mies van der Rohe, master of modern architecture, declared that "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together." In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison takes a closer look at these bricks, providing an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. …
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Ruins and FragmentsTales of Loss and Rediscovery
What is it about ruins that is so alluring, so puzzling, that they can hold us in endless wonder over the half-erased story they tell? This elegant book explores the captivating hold these remains and broken pieces from architecture to art and literature have on us. Why are we suspicious of things that are too smooth, too continuous? What makes us feel, when we look at a fragment, that its ve…
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