Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950
Author:   Anne Hultzsch
Publisher:   Maney Publishing
ISBN:  

9781907975639


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   31 January 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950


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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.

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Author:   Anne Hultzsch
Publisher:   Maney Publishing
Imprint:   Maney Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781907975639


ISBN 10:   1907975632
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   31 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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