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Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies)
Mussolini's bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation's medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime's programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today's tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed palio of Siena) were all "restored" to suit a vision of the past shaped by Fascist notions of virile power, social order, and national achievement in the arts. Ultimately, Lasansky forces readers to question long-standing assumptions about the Renaissance even as she expands the parameters of what constitutes Fascist culture.The arguments in The Renaissance Perfected are based in fresh archival evidence and a rich collection of illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, ranging from photographs and architectural drawings to tourist posters and film stills. Lasansky's groundbreaking book will be essential reading for students of medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century Italy as well as all those concerned with visual culture, architectural preservation, heritage studies, and tourism studies..
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Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place
Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism explores the touristic experience, representation and meaning of place within distinct cultural contexts. From the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanean coast to the urban renewal of Old Havana and the honeymoon resorts in the Poconos, this book provides provocative insights into the practice of tourism and the conception of place. .
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Pieced by Mother Symposium Papers
On the Cutting Edge Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions examines the collecting attitudes of an early quilt enthusiast, Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of the Shelburne Museum as well as that of a venerable national museum - the DAR. Other authors discuss collecting from personal, contemporary, and topical points of view: political textiles and memorabilia; textiles, related tools and sewing equipment from southeastern Pennsylvania and the development of the Eastern quilt market. The Pennsylvania vendue or auction - a major source for early as well as contemporary collectors - is explored from an historical point of view. Quiltmaking traditions across the nation are examined; on Chesapeake Bay plantations from 1794-1846 as revealed in diaries, slave narratives, and existing material culture, signature quilt traditions and their evolution in New Jersey from 1837-1867; Amish quilt fabrics and how they reflect tradition, adaptation, and change; and 20th-century salvage quilt attitudes as mirrored in Hispanic quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico. Also, examined are the design explosion in Depression-era quilts, and the extensive use of sack material in clothing construction and quiltmaking of that period. Last, the myth versus the reality of various craft traditions is discussed. "Were blacksmiths really muscle-bound? Were basketmakers Gypsies and were thirteen quilts in the dowry?" illustrates how our 20th-century mindset is influenced by prominent early collectors, exhibitionism, and publications among other things..
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The History and Magic of Honeycomb
HONEYCOMB The History and Magic of Honeycomb explores the application and use of honeycomb structure and design in such disparate fields as aerospace, clothing, glassware, housing construction, packaging, paper party goods, and textiles. Authors Jeannette Lasansky and Virginia Gunn trace the evolution of paper honeycomb from folk traditions in China and Japan to pop culture commercial goods marketed by American, Austrian, Danish, German, and Japanese firms; from a hand craft to a mechanized and patented process; from paper traditions that span centuries to current cutting-edge technologies in thermoplastics and metals. Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Beistle Company of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, were among the leaders in the development and production of paper honeycomb. In paper goods in particular, honeycomb has transformed the ordinary into the magical. Meshed-tissue honeycomb garlands, centerpieces, and cards have been embraced by the American public since the early twentieth century as fashionable, inexpensive, easy to use, and delightful to one's senses. Hexel Corp. of Dublin, California, has revolutionized design features of aircraft, trains, cars, and ships by using honeycomb components made of a wide variety of metals, resins, and advanced composites. Tenneco Packaging/Hexacomb Corp. of Lincolnshire, Illinois, and Belcomb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been in the forefront of making and using structural building panels with honeycomb cores. Whether found in nineteenth-century garlands and valentines or late-twentieth century athletic shoes and airplanes, honeycomb never ceases to amaze..
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