Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness (eBook, PDF)

Power by Design
Redaktion: Apostolski, Dijana Omeragic; White, Aaron

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040311431
• Artikelnr.: 72870425

Autorenporträt

Dijana O. Apostolski is an architectural historian studying premodern histories of architectural design in relation to histories of the body, materials, and matter. She is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Aaron White is an architectural historian studying premodern architecture in its relation to empire. He is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Constructing the Racialized Body 1. St. Francis/San Francesco: White
Incorrupt
Divine 2. The Man of Swarthy Complexion: From Bernini's Biographies to the (De)construction of Color 3. "The Dead Body of a Moor": Michelangelo
Anatomy
and Racecraft in Sixteenth-Century Rome 4. "To Blanch an Aethiop": Inigo Jones
Queen Anna
and the Staging of Whiteness Part 2 Constructing the Racialized Body-Politic 5. Whitewashing Legibility: Property Surveys and the Logic of Colonial Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century Senegal 6. Muiscas and Moriscos from within the Spanish Grid: Privileged Mixed-Blood Settlers in the Foundational Records of Villa de Leyva (Colombia
1572-1582) and Campillo de Arenas (Spain
1508-1539) 7. The Appropriation of Mexican Indigenous Material Culture: Architecture
Urban Design
and Antiquarianism in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Spain
and Italy 8. The Whiteness of Antiquity and Salvation: Tullio Lombardo
Gianmaria Falconetto
and the Saint Anthony Chapel in Padua