Surreal Eden: Edward James and Las Pozas
by Hooks, Margaret, Mann, Sally, Schuyt, Michael
by Hooks, Margaret, Mann, Sally, Schuyt, Michael
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this book explores how Mexican visual culture presents anongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, Maria Fernandez us…
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
"While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and experimental moment in western art history, little research has been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvered through the nineteenth cen…
Chapter Introduction: Back to the Roots: Reform and Revivalism in the Late Ottoman Empire -- chapter 1 Ottoman Things: Empire and Exoticism at the Vienna World Exhibition -- chapter 2 Cosmopolitan Commitments: Artistic Networks and the Invention of Authenticity -- chapter 3 Reca…
"While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and experimental moment in western art history, little research has been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvered through the nineteenth cen…