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Schinkel's Look towards India
Zadow M.A.
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Description for Schinkel's Look towards India
Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 214 x 11. Weight in Grams: 484.
Text in German & English. Schinkel's Look towards India discusses a subject to which little attention has been paid to date: Schinkel's interest in Indian architecture and culture. This interest was first aroused by the English traveller to India William Hodges, who proposed the thesis that Greek and Indian architecture were of equal value. Later, the English landscape painters Thomas and William Daniell were to become even more important for Schinkel. Oriental Scenery, the book that described their travels, left its mark on Europe's image of India for decades and inspired longing for that country, which was considered almost magical. ... Read more
Text in German & English. Schinkel's Look towards India discusses a subject to which little attention has been paid to date: Schinkel's interest in Indian architecture and culture. This interest was first aroused by the English traveller to India William Hodges, who proposed the thesis that Greek and Indian architecture were of equal value. Later, the English landscape painters Thomas and William Daniell were to become even more important for Schinkel. Oriental Scenery, the book that described their travels, left its mark on Europe's image of India for decades and inspired longing for that country, which was considered almost magical. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Language
German
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681710
SKU
V9783936681710
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Ref
99-2
About Zadow M.A.
Mario Alexander Zadow, born in 1927, has spent the last 35 years doing biographical research about Schinkel. He is an honorary member of the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Gesellschaft in Neuruppin and an "Honorary Historian" of the American society Friends of Schinkel. In 2000 Zadow received the Schinkel Prize of the city of Neuruppin, and in 2010 the honorary award of the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Gesellschaft in ... Read more
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