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In his chapter on the art of portraiture in the French classical garden, Scully shows how garden design and urban design are driven by similar ideological and cultural forces. He defines the gardens of Versailles as an instance of what he calls portraiture, the transferal of meaning to landscape. In...
This ideal extends beyond the realm of garden design to that of urban planning. Scully points out that gardens surround the chateau of Versailles on one side only; on the other lies the town, which is laid out according to a similar logic of hierarchy and rational order. Three avenues...
In the following chapters, Scully shows how the vision of rational order embodied at Versailles dominates the successive shaping of gardens and cities. In certain passages, he offers a searing critique of the way in which modern architecture, led by its high priest, Le Corbusier, subverts and dehumanizes this ideal...
- When actor Warren Beatty addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1983, he asked the assembled power elite of print whether they thought their publications shared the same standards and values as the sensational tabloids sold in supermarkets. After the editors got over their astonishment that anyone would pose...
Barish aims first to define liberalism and point out its virtues as a solution for the main problems facing American society today. Reasoning that "Liberal's don't need new ideas nearly as much as they need faith and confidence in their old ones," Barish points out with historical examples...