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Updated edition. |
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1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Halftitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Second Edition; Foreword (First Edition); Part I Theory; Forethought: On Blackness and Time; Introduction to Part I; 1 Hegel's Tropes: History, Architecture, and the Black Subject; Philosophy and aesthetics: A total model of history; The subject identified; Full force of the effect: The negation of the Black Subject; The symbolic category: Architecture's blackness; Transcending the Black Subject; 2 Scheming the Scheme: The Technique of Revision. |
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A racial model of the dialecticThe consistency of ideas; A comprehensive diagram; A linguistic revision of Aesthetics; Reintroduction of the Black Subject; 3 Tropological Cases: The Racial Subject in Architectural Discourse; Signification of the first order: Laws of emergence; Signification of the second order: Operations on a black signifier; Contemporary architectural theory: Talking black; Afterthought: A Monkey Reading ... Fanon; Part II Orders of Space and Appearance; Forethought: The Negative Constructs; Introduction to Part II; 4 Black Autonomy; The Classical (P)eriod. |
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Space and time: Kant and the indivisibleThe medieval as symbolic: An other space, another time; Kant, blackness, and autonomy: Toward a black formalism; 5 Space and Time in the Classical (P)eriod; From space to appearance; Spatial orders in The Birth of Tragedy; Visualizing autonomy: A reflection on the history of styles; The spatial diagrammatic; 6 Architecture and the Classical (P)eriod; Building on language: Black Architectonics; Spatial linguistics and the hall of mirrors; The Black Architectonic: A methodological note. |
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Now imagine a monkey sitting in a dark place trying to see architecture for the first timeAfterthought: The End: Of Absence; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques that can legitimize modern historicity, philosophy and architectural theory. Arguing that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm, Darell Fields employs a technique whereby works are related through the repetition an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Color in architecture.
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Color in architecture. |
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Black.
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Black. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
West, Cornel, author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fields, Darell Wayne. Architecture in black : theory, space and appearance. Updated edition. London, England : Bloomsbury, 2000, ©2015 xiv, 216 pages 9781472567031 |
| ISBN |
9781472567055 (electronic book) |
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1472567056 (electronic book) |
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9781472567031 |
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9781472567048 (ePub) |
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