Architecture

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Concrete Century

Julius Kahn and the Construction Revolution

By Michael G Smith
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Biography, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

The tale of concrete cities

An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Reference, Art, Architecture, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive reference work on traditional-style Chinese painting in the 20th century, complementing earlier guides to paintings from Imperial China

Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968

An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings

By Ellen Johnston Laing
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Reference, Art, Architecture
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A bibliography of publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings in public or private collections

Mao Zedong’s “Talks at the Yan’an Conference on Literature and Art”

A Translation of the 1943 Text with Commentary

By Bonnie McDougall
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The complete text of a key work of Mao Zedong, with an examination of its literary, rather than political or historical, implications

Beyond Berlin

Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld & Paul B. Jaskot
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European History, Jewish Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

Speaking Ruins

Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By John Pinto
Subjects: Art, Architecture, History, European History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A study of Piranesi's presentation of classical Roman architecture, through drawings and etchings

Architecture and Modern Literature

By David Anton Spurr
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, European Studies

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

Building Romanticism

Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Nicole Reynolds
Subjects: History, European History, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism

Symbols of Wealth and Power

Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.

By Nancy A. Winter
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Art, Architecture, Art History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

The new definitive text on Etruscan terra-cottas

Topographies of Class

Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin

By Sabine Hake
Subjects: German Studies, Art, Architecture, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural architecture of Weimar Berlin

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors

A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art

By Christine Mitchell Havelock
Subjects: Classical Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art, Architecture, History

A revealing survey of Aphrodite

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 49 (2004)

Edited by Anthony Corbeill & Vernon Hyde Minor
Subjects: Classical Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

Material Witness

The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter

Edited by Ted Leigh
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The fascinating story of New York School Fairfield Porter, as revealed through his personal letters

Looking at the Renaissance

Essays toward a Contextual Appreciation

By Charles R. Mack
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A well-illustrated and fast paced volume that examines the evolving context of Renaissance art while offering fresh insight into the meaning of the Renaissance

The Learned Collector

Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul

By Lea Stirling
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, Art, Architecture

The first empire-wide study to examine the eclectic marble statuettes collected and displayed by the wealthiest Roman aristocrats

Selected Prose

By John Ashbery
Edited by Eugene Richie
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Art, Architecture
Series: Poets on Poetry

Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 48 (2003)

By Anthony Corbeill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

Worshipping Aphrodite

Art and Cult in Classical Athens

By Rachel Rosenzweig
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, Gender Studies

Delves into the various characteristics of Aphrodite as the people of Athens conceived of her

Melancholy, Love, and Time

Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature

By Peter G. Toohey
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Classical Studies, Psychology, Sociology

An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature

Cosa V

An Intermittent Town, Excavations 1991-1997

By Elizabeth Fentress
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Art, Architecture, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

A presentation of seven years' archaeological excavation, research, and analysis of the site of Cosa

Albrecht Durer's Renaissance

Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith

By David Hotchkiss Price
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer

Women and War

By Jenny Matthews
Subjects: Gender Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies

An unflinching twenty-year portrait-diary of women's lives in war zones

Terracotta Figurines and Plaques from Dura-Europos

By Susan B. Downey
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Art, Architecture, Classical Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

An exhaustive study of the terracotta figurines unearthed at the site of Dura-Europos

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume 47 (2002)

By Anthony Corbeill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
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