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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"historical styles"”.
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A New Narrative of Historical Styles in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… here as the conscious use of forms and styles from the past – was seen as an outdated, reactionary, and backward mode of design. Closely associated with the architecture and decorative arts of the nineteenth century, it has led to an understanding of historicist objects as being about …
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Moritz Oppenheim, the Rothschilds, and the Construction of Jewish Identity
… this study. Oppenheim's methods and use of art historical styles are discussed with deference to the public or private nature of the portraits, and the resulting works' engagement of both German and Jewish issues. Methodologies used include the history of style and identity theory.
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The Boston Federal Courthouse : institutional places and the national face
… forms and reference to simplified, yet glorified historical styles. In a democracy, institutional places must be designed to acknowledge that they are situated in a realm of indeterminacy and antagonism and must be responsible to a multivalent public. They must be presented as subject to …
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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia
… referential contexts where triadic music evokes historical styles. Theorists in Russia have approached this repertoire from perspectives that differ from those of their English-speaking counterparts, but because little Russian theory has been reliably translated into English, the work remains …
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Cameron Street Housing: an exercise in urban residential design
… for a medium density complex that respected the historical styles and showed innovation to accommodate contemporary living. The concept of the project centered around the separation and identity of one's home, the creation of a community within a community, and the use of thresholds to provide …
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Architectural Historicism Revisited: The Case of Twentieth-Century Traditionalist Architecture in Queen Street, Auckland
… War buildings, designed with the eclectic use of historical styles. Considered anachronistic and outdated, this architecture is widely neglected in the architectural histories of the twentieth century, most of which are focused on the Modern Movement, or other modernising tendencies leading toward …