Author: Pamela Krist
Publisher: Cultural Memories
ISBN: 9781788740142
Category : Fontana di Trevi (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media.
Memory and the Trevi Fountain
Author: Pamela Krist
Publisher: Cultural Memories
ISBN: 9781788740142
Category : Fontana di Trevi (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media.
Publisher: Cultural Memories
ISBN: 9781788740142
Category : Fontana di Trevi (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media.
The Trevi Fountain
Author: John A. Pinto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fontana di Trevi (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fontana di Trevi (Rome, Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Rome and the West
Author: William Stearns Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Papal Art and Cultural Politics
Author: Christopher M. S. Johns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521416399
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An examination of papal art during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521416399
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An examination of papal art during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
Memory and Utopia
Author: Luisa Passerini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351558587
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
'Memory and Utopia' looks at the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and feminist theory and practice, the book highlights how women struggled to be recognized as full subjects. The themes of utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers are explored. 'Memory and Utopia' examines the sense of belonging to Europe that has emerged in the last twenty years. The book analyses European identity as expressed through identities based on gender, age and culture to explore an inclusive and non-hierarchical subjectivity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351558587
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
'Memory and Utopia' looks at the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and feminist theory and practice, the book highlights how women struggled to be recognized as full subjects. The themes of utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers are explored. 'Memory and Utopia' examines the sense of belonging to Europe that has emerged in the last twenty years. The book analyses European identity as expressed through identities based on gender, age and culture to explore an inclusive and non-hierarchical subjectivity.
Memory
Author: Susannah Radstone
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082323259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
These essays survey the histories, the theories and the fault lines that compose the field of memory research. Drawing on the advances in the sciences and in the humanities, they address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082323259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
These essays survey the histories, the theories and the fault lines that compose the field of memory research. Drawing on the advances in the sciences and in the humanities, they address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory.
The Aqueducts of Rome
Author: Sextus Frontinus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Aqueducts of Rome is both a laborious detailing of the water systems that fed the great city of Rome, and a window into the life of Romans themselves. Dealing with brazen water theft, the general Frontinus is appointed to restore order and take into account the entire sanctioned and unsanctioned system. Text first tells the story of the water systems, then telling the story of all the adulteration to those systems. Through this Frontinus shows us a glimpse into humanity. This is The Aqueducts of Rome.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Aqueducts of Rome is both a laborious detailing of the water systems that fed the great city of Rome, and a window into the life of Romans themselves. Dealing with brazen water theft, the general Frontinus is appointed to restore order and take into account the entire sanctioned and unsanctioned system. Text first tells the story of the water systems, then telling the story of all the adulteration to those systems. Through this Frontinus shows us a glimpse into humanity. This is The Aqueducts of Rome.
The Houses of History
Author: Anna Green
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719052552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719052552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market.
Roman Mornings
Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561310115
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561310115
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.