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The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England

Rethinking Art's Histories

By (author) Kimberley Skelton
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Mar 2015
Dimensions: w 153mm h 242mm d 22mm
Weight: 565g
ISBN-10: 0719095808
ISBN-13: 9780719095801
Barcode No: 9780719095801
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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. 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. -- .

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