Architecture, Travellers and Writers

Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950

Anne Hultzsch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2014
Maney Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-907975-63-9 (ISBN)

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This book explores the mechanics of architectural writing, its relation to perception. It examines the effects of travel, as movement towards unfamiliar places, on perception. The book evolves from five key perceptual-representational processes: rendering, ordering, reading, thinking, and looking.

Anne Hultzsch

1. Introduction: A Manual 2. Rendering Buildings into Words: Pevsner and Evelyn 3. Ordering the Unfamiliar: Bargrave and the Early Grand Tour 4. Reading Books: Defoe, Smollett, and the Country-House Guidebook 5. Thinking in Metaphor: Evelyn and Ruskin 6. Looking through the Lens: Evelyn, Goethe, and Burckhardt 7. Conclusions

Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 247 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-907975-63-2 / 1907975632
ISBN-13	978-1-907975-63-9 / 9781907975639
Zustand	Neuware