[audiobook] Hamlet-Machine d'Heiner Muuml;ller: Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis (French Edition) by Encyclopaedia Universalis in Arts-Photography

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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. It offers a holistic synthesis of the spaces of English domestic architecture in an interdisciplinary context that reveals the visual and cultural assumptions underpinning both the seventeenth-century turn to motion; noted by Wouml;lfflin; Deleuze and others; and recent art historical study of early modern sensory experience.From the early-seventeenth-century house with its staccato physical and social rhythms to the late-seventeenth-century house with its long vistas and changeable wall surfaces; owners and guests moved through spatial complexes increasingly intertwined in networks of circulation. Arguments across philosophy; poetry; and etiquette manuals reveal the inherent human malleability and mobility assumed by designers of these spaces; while books on colonisation; travel; and geography highlight the broader networks of motion in which early modern viewers lived. The spaces of house and estate; analyzed here through a guests eyes and mind; correspondingly evoked yet disciplined circulation to transform the blur of motion paradoxically into a foundation for social and mental stability. In the early decades of the century; motion - whether literal travel or floating abstract signifiers - had been alternately feared and praised; but; from mid-century and particularly in the wake of the English Civil War; authors regrounded the comprehensibility of even language itself in motion and architectural theorists rethought both book and building into a sequence of shifting phases that immobilised an innately restless viewer. With its blend of visual and textual analysis; this book will be of interest to art; architectural; and cultural historians of early modern Europe as well as to other readers exploring the history of European visual culture.