Skyscrapers: An American urban art form

Arts & media   |   Architecture   |   Presentation   |   11/12/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « Libeskind's original design. Conclusion. Skyscrapers: An American urban art form It isn t often that we think of buildings as works of art. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The skyscrapers evolution.. Initial look of skyscraper's - strictly utilitarian.. The post-war boom of the 1920s.. Neo-Gothic style.. The product of eclecticism.. How far a building could be abstracted. . The beauty of these...»

Landscape painting in 19th and 20th centuries

Arts & media   |   Arts and art history   |   Presentation   |   08/26/2008   |   .doc   |   10 pages
Document abstract : « boom and the age of skyscrapers (whose buildings and urban grandeur and urban squalor were replacements for transcendentalism in American landscape painting. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. A typical Luminism work according to Matthew Baigell.. Thomas Cole.. Nineteenth Century themes.. Winslow Homer.. The Twentieth Century.. John Marin.. Georgia O'Keeffe.. The Quality of Georgia O'Keeffe's Landscapes.. What does...»

Architecture 2005 - Canadian and international trends in context

Arts & media   |   Architecture   |   Term papers   |   04/29/2009   |   .doc   |   6 pages
Document abstract : « cited in the mess in the American inner cities turned into traps of poverty and urban decay and blight, to the authoritarian capitalist skyscrapers that dwarf ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. Chodikoff's August 2005 roundtable of practicing critics and architects. The significance of the important public buildings built in Canada in the 21st century. The components or themes that characterized design during the middle of...»

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