Shadow-makers :a cultural history of...
Kite, Stephen,

 

  • Shadow-makers :a cultural history of shadows in architecture /
  • 纪录类型: 书目-电子资源 : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414] null: 720.1/03
    [NT 47271] Title/Author: Shadow-makers : : a cultural history of shadows in architecture // Stephen Kite
    作者: Kite, Stephen,
    面页册数: 1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages)
    标题: Architecture and society
    标题: Shades and shadows in architecture
    ISBN: 9781472588128
    ISBN: 1472588126
    [NT 15000227] null: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 15000228] null: Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Shadow Beginnings; 2 Primordial Shadows; 3 'The art of Shaddowes'; 4 Shadows of the Sublime; 5 Gothic 'Gloomth'; 6 John Ruskin and Shadows of Power; 7 Shadow Carpets; 8 Shadows of the Unconscious; 9 Louis Kahn and the 'Treasury of Shadows'; 10 Shadow Futures; Bibliography; Index
    [NT 15000229] null: "The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative - combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history - to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context - tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious
    电子资源: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/dyu/detail.action?docID=4901321
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