The paradox of body, building and motion in seventeenth-century England / Kimberley Skelton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skelton, Kimberley, author.

Series:

Rethinking art's histories.

Rethinking art's histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--England--History--17th century.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture and society--England--History--17th century.

Architecture and society.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)..

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book examines how seventeenth-century English architectural theorists and designers rethought the domestic built environment in terms of mobility, as motion became a dominant mode of articulating the world across discourses encompassing philosophy, political theory, poetry, and geography. From mid-century, the house and estate that had evoked staccato rhythms became triggers for mental and physical motion - evoking travel beyond England's shores, displaying vistas, and showcasing changeable wall surfaces. Simultaneously, philosophers and other authors argued for the first time that, paradoxically, the blur of motion immobilised an inherently restless viewer into social predictability and so stability. Alternately feared and praised early in the century for its unsettling unpredictability, motion became the most certain way of comprehending social interactions, language, time, and the buildings that filtered human experience. At the heart of this narrative is the malleable sensory viewer, tacitly assumed in early modern architectural theory and history yet whose inescapable responsiveness to surrounding stimuli guaranteed a dependable world from the seventeenth century.

Contents:

Cover; The paradox of body, buildingand motion in seventeenth-century England; Contents; List of figures ; Acknowledgements; 1 The unease of motion; 2 Early seventeenth-century staccato boundaries; 3 Mid-century mobility of language and architectural theory; 4 Travel at home; 5 The disciplinary distraction of motion; 6 Motion as mode of perception; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780719098260

0719098262

9780719098277

0719098270

OCLC:

980836570