18 books like The Seven Lamps of Architecture

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Painting as a Pastime Winston S. Churchill · 1921 · ★ 4.4 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "'Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely' The perfect antidote to the depression that blighted his working life, Sir Winston Churchill took to painting with gusto following his ejection from the Admiralty at the time of the 1915 Gallipoli disaster. At 40 years old, Churchill found in painting a passion that was to remain his constant companion, producing over 500 works. Traditional… Shares: Painting, Essays

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant's philosophy, the "Transcendental Analytic" of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so… Shares: Essays, Philosophy

Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780 William Beckford · 1780 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Shares: Painting, Art

Stadia Geraint John · 1994 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A stadium is one of the most exciting of building types of the 1990s; designed well, they can enhance and provide a comfortable venue for great occasions. The recent Taylor Report identified necessary change and recommended improvements to spectator facilities by refurbishment or rebuilding. The facilities required have become increasingly important and complex. This authoritative and… Shares: Architecture, Essays

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Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-ban shūsei Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan) · 1991 · ★ 5.0 · 26p · ≈ 52m · Moderate Shares: Painting, Art, Philosophy

The Stones of Venice John Ruskin · 1851 · ★ 3.9 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. Ruskin discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city. Shares: Architecture, Art, Philosophy

Sesame and Lilies, three lectures John Ruskin · 1800 · ★ 4.4 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Art, Conduct of life, Essays, Philosophy

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

The thread of gold Arthur Christopher Benson · 1905 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This is biographical book. I have for a great part of my life desired, perhaps more than I have desired anything else, to make a beautiful book; and I have tried, perhaps too hard and too often, to do this, without ever quite succeeding; by that I mean that my little books, when finished, were not worthy to be compared with the hope that I had had of them. I think now that I tried to do too many… Shares: Essays

Gerhard Richter Richter, Gerhard · 1971 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In Erinnerung ist das "Streifen-Bild", das im Eingangsbereich von Richters grosser Retrospektive "Panorama" in der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin hing. Diesem jüngsten Werkzyklus ist erstmals eine Museumsausstellung gewidmet mit 12 neuen Arbeiten, die bis zu zehn Meter lang sind sowie sechs grossen, zweiteiligen Lack-Glas-Bildern aus diesem Jahr im Format 100 x 200 cm und einer grossräumigen,… Shares: Painting, Art, Philosophy

The crown of wild olives John Ruskin · 1800 · ★ 3.4 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Twenty years ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandle, and including the lower moors of Addington, and the villages of Beddington and Carshalton, with all their pools and streams. No clearer or diviner waters ever sang… Shares: Architecture, Art

Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer · 1968 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Seine in den 1950er Jahren entwickelten Überarbeitungen machten den 1929 in Baden bei Wien geborenen Künstler Arnulf Rainer weltweit bekannt. In Kooperation mit der Albertina in Wien würdigt das Museum Frieder Burda den international renommierten Künstler anlässlich seines 85. Geburtstages mit einer umfassenden Retrospektive, in der wesentliche Stationen seines komplexen Schaffens mit… Shares: Painting, Art

On not being able to paint Marion Milner · 1950 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This author wrote the great book."A life of one's own."She was the sister of the scientist P.B.Blackett who won the Nobel Prize for physics. She became a psychoanalyst and this book is an original and creative effort to understand the blocks preventing her from creativity. She had always wished to be a painter but was unsatisfied with how her work felt dead and meaningless when she simply… Shares: Painting, Art

A year from Monday John Cage · 1967 · ★ 4.2 · 167p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture." Shares: Art, Essays, Philosophy

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