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Avant-Garde and Criticism
Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize ...
The Urban University and its Identity
The chapters in this book are revised versions of papers initially presented at a confer ence on Universities and their cities held in Amsterdam on March 27-29 1996. There were about one hundred participants and 45 written contributions from Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. People with different disciplinary backgrounds, geographers, historians, sociologists, economists and planners among them, attended, as did a few university administrators and local government officials. The intricate relationships between universities and their cities were intensively debated from the perspective of possible contributions by the university to city life as well as from the angle of the city as a mili...
The Hague Conferences and International Politics, 1898-1915
Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world's governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 – and the third conference of 1915 that was never held – using diplomatic correspondence, newspaper reports, contemporary publications and the papers of internationalist organizations and peace activists. Focusing on the international media frenzy that developed around them, Maartje Abbenhuis provides a new angle on the conferences. Highlighting the conventions that they brought about, she demonstrates how The Hague set the tone for international politics in the years lead...
The Art of Building
This title was first published in 2002: In the second half of the 18th century, philosophy provided the fundamental characteristics of architechture. The architects of the 19th century then introduced the empirical comparative study of buildings. This phenomenon has usually been regarded exclusively in terms of historicism, but this is to underestimate the fact that they were architects. The problems for which they sought solutions did not belong to the past, but were part of their own age or the future. The architecture of the past was, to the 19th-century architect, significant to a large degree as a silent witness of a bygone era - a representation of beauty. Historical architecture provi...
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
De universitaire campus
Op Nederlandse universiteitscampussen wordt al jaren gerenoveerd, gesloopt en gebouwd. De basisstructuur van deze complexen werd gelegd in de jaren vijftig, zestig en zeventig, toen de universiteiten een groeispurt doormaakten. Deze ging gepaard met grote ruimtelijke veranderingen, waardoor het aanzien van de universiteiten volledig veranderde. In soms compleet nieuwe stadswijken verrezen fabrieksachtige laboratoria, ziekenhuizen en flats met werkkamers en collegezalen die eerder deden denken aan kantoorkolossen dan aan plekken van geleerdheid. In de bundel De universitaire campus worden verschillende aspecten van deze ruimtelijke transformatie onderzocht. Welke visie op de universiteit, en op de relatie tussen stad en universiteit, lag ten grondslag aan de concentratie? Pasten de nieuwe gebouwen wel bij de zeer onderscheiden werkprocessen die een universiteit herbergt? Welke idealen over de rol van de universiteit in de samenleving werden in de campussen gematerialiseerd? En voor welke uitdagingen stellen de destijds gemaakte keuzes huidige campusplanners?
Gids voor moderne architectuur in Nederland
(Reis)gids voor moderne Nederlandse architectuur waarin ruim 700 objecten worden afgebeeld en beknopt beschreven.
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