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Louis I. Kahn, teacher
No full textLouis I. Kahn was not only an architect of powerful buildings; he was also an unconventional teacher and a radical philosopher whose influence on his students was far-reaching. It is through his many former students, especially those in his Master\u27s Class at the University of Pennsylvania, 1960-74, that Kahn\u27s distinctive philosophy of education and unique pedagogy have continued to influence the teaching and making of architecture in the late modern era. Focusing on a neglected area of Kahn scholarship, the author argues that Kahn\u27s legacy as a teacher should be remembered as among his greatest accomplishments. The study examines Kahn\u27s philosophy of education, his unique pedagogy, and his motives for teaching. It draws upon the author\u27s experience as a student in the Master\u27s Class and extensive research at the Louis I. Kahn Collection housed in Penn\u27s Architectural Archives, the comprehensive repository of records relating to Kahn\u27s academic and professional career. It is the first study to be based upon interviews with numerous fellow Master\u27s Class alumni, reflecting the views expressed by Kahn\u27s students about their teacher and the lasting impact of his teaching on their professional lives. © 2013 Cambridge University Press
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Thos. L. James to Kahn & Levy requesting an return of a Washing Machine that was delivered to Mrs. D. W. Kempner
Engraved portrait of James Nayler (1618–1660)
No full textEngraved portrait of James Nayler (1618-1660) by Robert Grave (1768-1825). Inscribed, 'Born at Ardesloe, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire. Was an Independent and served Quarter Master in ye Parliament Army, about the Year 1641. turn'd Quaker in 1651. Punish'd as a Blasphemer 1656. Author of many Books & Dyed at Holm in Huntingtonshire 1660. Aged 44.
The Menil Connection: Louis Kahn and the Rice University Art Center
No full textStephen James tells the story of a great unrealized project in The Menil Connection: Louis Kahn and the Rice University Art Center. Kahn, Rice, and the art collectors John and Dominique de Menil collaborated in this unusual venture, which, among other things, would have housed the de Menil art collection on the Rice campus. The project embodied Kahn's approach to designing an institutional landscape, interwoven with the smaller spaces that he judged were essential for teaching and learning. Its abandonment was the genesis of the independent Menil Collection, for which Kahn also prepared a design, but which was ultimately built by Renzo Piano.</jats:p
40th anniversary of the American Joint Distribution Committee Ceremonies
No full textSeated left to right: Adolf Held, Bernard Semel, James N. Rosenberg, Senator Herbert H. Lehman, Paul Baerwald. Standing left to right: Rabbi David de Sola Pool, Alexander Kahn, Bernhard Kahn, Alex. A. Landesco, Baruch Zuckermann, I. Edwin Goldwasser, Rabbi Jonah B. WiseDigital Imag
Letter, 1916, Miami, Florida to Mr. Harry Kahn, Indianapolis, Indiana
No full textLetter from Riley thanking Mr. Kahn for a gift and giving news of mutual friends there in Florida. He asks Mr. Kahn's opinion on the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Dr. James Gillam, Spelman College, September 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. James Gillam. Dr. Gillam talks about his book, "Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War 1968-1970". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
James Bond: international man of gastronomy
No full textThis article is concerned with the representation of food and drink in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. In particular, it examines how the author uses Bond’s culinary knowledge and habits of consumption as an important constituent of his hero’s character. Similarly, the food choices of other characters, notably villains, are shown to be linked, by Fleming, to core aspects of their identity − principally their ethnicity. Bond’s impulse to observe and classify, very much in evidence in the novels’ food sequences, is examined in terms of the texts’ construction of Bond as a skilled identifier of signs
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