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Membro: pranogajec

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Etiquetasart history (1,625), architecture (1,479), american (1,035), europe (953), 19C (950), 20C (810), history (467), italy (406), 18C (320), renaissance (273) — ver todas as etiquetas

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GruposBookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill

Livrarias favoritas57th Street Books, After Word Books, Alabaster Bookshop, Argosy Books, Atlantic Bookshop, Book Culture, Booklegger's Used Books, Bookman's Corner, Bookworks, Brattle Book Shop, Commonwealth Books - Milk St, Daedalus Bookshop, Heartwood Books, Heights Books, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, Left Bank Books, Librairie du Musee du Louvre, McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, Metropolitan Museum of Art Shop, Michael Shamansky, Bookseller, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Myopic Books, National Building Museum Shop, O'Gara and Wilson, Booksellers, Powell's - Lakeview, Prairie Avenue Bookshop, Printers Row Fine & Rare Books, Ravenswood Used Books, Second Story Books, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, Skyline Books, Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers, St. Mark's Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, The Gallery Bookstore, Unabridged Bookstore, Unnameable Books, Westsider Used and Rare Books, William Stout Architectural Books

Bibliotecas favoritasAvery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Newberry Library

Sobre mimAdjunct professor and Ph.D. candidate in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Dissertation: "The Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Classical Architecture in New York City, 1880-1910." I consider this classicism in the context of contemporary positive assessments of urban life and the public realm articulated by architects, city planners, cultural critics, and political and social reformers. This architecture was one part of a set of interconnected discourses about the nature of the public realm, civic and municipal reform, and the uses of tradition in modern civic life that constituted a new urban image for the city of New York. The thesis responds to a fundamental question: What did classicism mean to the architects, critics, and reformers who championed it within the context of a rapidly changing commercial city? I ask, in addition, what this architecture might have meant for its patrons and for the citizens of the city for whom it was designed. I reconsider this New York classicism in the context of contemporary concerns for the creation and maintenance of the res publica, a public realm, which was a major preoccupation of late Gilded Age and Progressive Era reformers. The dramatic shift toward what contemporaries called Civic Art, encompassing architecture, urban design, and the artistic embellishment of the city, was nurtured and given fullest expression in New York City beginning in the 1880s. My dissertation will trace the origins and development, as well as the ideological, cultural, and political aspects of this architectural reform, taking the city’s architecture and urban fabric as a primary locus of reforming zeal. New York was a site for experimentation in evolving ideas about the nature of the public realm and architecture’s role in contributing to and sustaining a cosmopolitan urban center for American civilization.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaThe majority of my books are in the fields of art and architectural history. There are smaller selections of American history, political theory, philosophy, fiction, music, and travel writing. Some 200-300 books at parents' house are uncatalogued. I used tags inconsistently (especially topical and proper name tags) when I first entered much of the library--I am slowly fixing and systematizing them, but this is no quick task. Suggestions on interesting books or used book deals always welcome.

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LocalizaçãoNew York City

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Tipo de contapública, vitalícia

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Membro desdeJul 3, 2007