ART HUMANITIES: MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART Dr. Martina Mims W-1121‚ Section 029 mm783@columbia.edu Spring 2015 Office hours: Th 2:30 to 3:30 Tues./Th.: 1:10 – 2:25 p.m. Schermerhorn 915 Schermerhorn 604 This course‚ a part of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University‚ introduces selected works central to the Western tradition
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tuberculosis. Les Frênes (Leysin‚ Switzerland‚ 1911) was probably the first large purpose-built heliotherapy clinic to be constructed. It featured south-facing rooms with terraces and large windows. (These early sanatoriums are sometimes called the ‘Davos-type’‚ as that city was another center of activity.) The director of Les Frênes‚ Dr. Auguste Rollier‚ published La Cure de Soleil in 1914 and L’Heliotherapie in 1923. The latter became a best-selling book and may have influenced architects such as Le Corbusier
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MODERNİSM Modernism first emerged in the early twentieth century‚ and by the 1920s‚ the prominent figures of the movement – Le Corbusier‚ Walter Gropius‚ and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - had established their reputations. However it was not until after the Second World War that it gained mass popularity‚ after modernist planning was implemented as a solution to the previous failure of architecture and design to meet basic social needs. During the 1930s as much as 15% of the urban populations were
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Bullock‚ Allan; Stallybrass‚O‚ The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought‚ Second Edition‚ London‚ UK‚ 1977 Caputo‚ John D.‚ (Ed and Commentator)‚ Deconstruction in a Nutshell‚ A Conversation with Jacques Derrida‚ Fordham Uni Press‚ USA‚ 1997 Corbusier L‚ Le Corbusie‚ Precision on The Present State of Architecture and City Planning‚ The MIT press‚ London‚ UK‚ 1991 Culler D‚ Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies‚ Volume 3‚ Routledge‚ London‚ 2003 Frings M‚ The Golden Section
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crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words‚ and with a still wider significance‚ so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth‚ books of the nature of Les Misérables ( The poor ones) cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE‚ 1862.g The word that becoming more and more popular in politics of today‚ the word that is commonly used all over the planet as the crises is spinning out of control‚
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ancient Egypt‚ the gothic period in France‚ & 20th century architecture in general. Use the Temple of Ammon at Karnak‚ Amiens Cathedral in France‚ and Notre Dame du Haut‚ by Le Corbusier in Ronchamp‚ France‚ near Switzerland as examples with which to make your points. Comparison 3 Compare (& contrast) the Villa Savoye‚ by Le Corbusier‚ with Fallingwater‚ by Frank Lloyd Wright‚ on a point-by-point basis. (Do NOT write first about one building and then about the other. When that’s done‚ rarely are
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Nejad Arshad P.8 Over periods of time‚ many movie producers have tried to copy the exact details of the literacy text Les Miserables. Some audiences have enjoyed the movie versions‚ and some have enjoyed the literacy text. Overall the movie cannot compare to the amazing details of the text. Some may try to make the movie look and sound unique and remain in the boundaries of the book‚ but most times the literacy text takes the audience’s attention over the movie. The movie version laves out many
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Piper 2 Baron James (Sidney Eduard) Ensor was a Belgian artist who lived from 1860-1949.(Wikipedia 2010) He spent almost his whole life in his home town Ostend Belgium and he was trained as a painter in Brussels. He Joined a group called Les XX (The 20). The Les XX brought in works from contemporary French artists into Brussels and fought for more artistic freedom. His early works used dimmer colors and were more of the realist style. (The Art of Being Human 152)Many of his later works have
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Victor Hugo Many critics would go as far as to say that Victor Hugo was and remains the Charles Dickens of France. Hugo is most well known for the writing of the famous Broadway show and book Les Misérables as well as what became the Disney Hit Hunchback of Notre Dame. A brilliant author‚ artist‚ and poet‚ Hugo is most recognized for his writing of government and revolution. But these themes that are common for many authors to write of have actually deemed Hugo quite unique‚ so much so that critics
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the flats were big‚ wide and open‚ to encourage people to see them as the village street‚ and stop and talk with their neighbors. The result was “a six-story blueprint for communal living as ingenious as it is humane.” Narkomfin‚ Moscow 1929 Le Corbusier’s 5 points of modern architecture Gosstrakh Apartments‚ Moscow 1926 The Gosstrakh Apartments were designed for the employees of the Gosstrakh
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