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Having visited Ireland regularly during the 1930s, Ludwig Wittgenstein resigned his Cambridge philosophy professorship in 1947 and moved there, living in a fishing village on the Atlantic coast and hotels in Dublin and the Wicklow Mountains. Although Wittgenstein spent some time out of the country, Ireland was effectively his base for three very productive years during which he worked on what would become one of his key books, the posthumously...

A study of the Greek-born artist and sculptor. 220 illus.

A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, "Voyages and Visions" is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art an...

Victor Stoichita shows how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attempted to deal with mystic visions in their art. Artists studied include Velazquez, Zurburan and E1 Greco. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.

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Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. "Potential Images, " the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.Dario Gamboni concentrates on the last decades of the nineteenth and first decades of the...

Takes in a wonderful diversity of things."-"NatureNow available in paperback, this final volume in the trilogy "Language/Writing/Reading traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbols first acquired meaning through to the electronic texts of the digital age. The author concludes with an examination of "visual language" and modern theories of how reading is processed in the brain, and suggests a radical new definition of what r...

Animal "assesses the way we live with animals, examining the paradoxes of our relationships with them. Why is the pet that sits by the dinner table as we consume other kinds of meat never for eating? What does it mean to wear fake fur? Why are animals such a constant presence in children's literature and films? Drawing examples from literature, film, science, advertising, fashion, and philosophy, Animal argues that we can't think about animals...

This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary "things" as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal cre...

In this intriguing and witty survey, Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia. By analyzing the way people have negotiated open spaces from Greek and Roman times to the present day, he finds that "space fear" ultimately results from the inhibition of movement, and shows how this discovery can provide lessons for today's urban planners and architects. Along the way, he asks why Freud repressed his agoraphobia, and examines the work...

Considers the way that gardens are experienced. This title includes many illustrations of gardens from England, Europe, North America and the Far East, including Versailles, Stowe, Moulin-Joli and Yuan Ming Yuan.

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The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures - indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world - is profound. Cars have brought benefits to individuals in terms of mobility and expanded horizons, but the cost has been very high in terms of damage to the environment and the consumption of precious resources. Despite the growing belief that a Faustian price is now being paid for the freedom ca...

John Manning's book charts the -evolution of the emblem from its beginnings to its full flowering in the 16th century and through its various reinventions to the present day. "This book is a magisterial performance, sure to be in demand as an introduction to the emblem for general readers, as well as having much to say to emblem specialists."-Alastair Fowler, regius professor emeritus, University of Edinburgh, U.K. John Manning is a professor ...

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The Shogun's Painted Culture analyzes Japanese culture prior to contact with Europe. Japan's ruling elite used an "iconography of absence" to portray themselves as, literally, unseeable. As European contact increased, Matsudaira Sadanobu, the Shogun's chief minister during this period, sought to codify Japanese culture before it was overwhelmed. Sadanobu was so successful, Screech argues, that he can be thought of as defining Japanese culture ...

This text outlines the activities, enthusiasms and passions of these communities and proposes that these new social movements will actually be responsible for creating the ethical values by which we will all measure our lives in the 21st century. This is Utopianism at both its most fanatical and its most pragmatic - after all, the future of our world is at stake, or so the author says.

Beginning in the Renaissance, wealthy aristocrats showcased large numbers of exotic beasts in their menageries. Safely caged, animals inspired the interest of naturalists and fed the curiosity of the masses. In the 19th century, increased urbanization and colonization aided the expansion of zoos in which animals, imported in their thousands, were tamed to serve as domesticated livestock. Nowadays, with wildlife and many natural habitats under ...

In this novel account of the history of Russian icons, Oleg Tarasov looks in detail at a range of fascinating issues, from the sacred meanings of such images to practical questions of how and why they were made. The significance of icons in the cultural life of Russia is discussed in the context of popular prints and poster design. Wonder-working saints, the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers, and holy icon painters all app...

Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the time of "Homo erectus "to the nineteenth century, analyzing the emergence of linguistics as a science and the development of language as a written form. He also investigates the rise of pidgin, jargon, slang, and dialectology, as well as literature and literacy's relationship to language. Finally, he demonstrates the effects of the media on language today.