Nearest Thing to Heaven - The Empire State Building and American Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Mark Kingwell is professor of philosophy! University of Toronto! a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine! and the author of eight books. Klappentext The Empire State Building literally cannot be seen in its totality! from any perspective. This book encourages us to look beneath the strong physical presence of the building! to become aware of its evolving layers of meaning! and to see how the building lives within a unique imaginative space in the landscape of the American consciousness. Zusammenfassung The Empire State Building literally cannot be seen in its totality! from any perspective. This book encourages us to look beneath the strong physical presence of the building! to become aware of its evolving layers of meaning! and to see how the building lives within a unique imaginative space in the landscape of the American consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Kingwell, Kingwell Mark
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2007
• EAN: 9780300126129
• ISBN: 978-0-300-12612-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Icons of America (Paperback); Icons of America; Icons of America (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; New York, Cultural Studies, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, New York (state)