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Secondary Readings

CLASS # SECONDARY READINGS
1 Fowler, Barbara Hughes. The Hellenistic Aesthetic. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
2 Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.
3 Jarzombek, Mark. On Leon Baptista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.
4 + 5 Woods, Mary N. From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
6 Jarzombek, Mark. "The Kunstgewerbe, the Werkbund, and the Aesthetics of Culture in the Wilhelmine Period." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 53, no. 7 (March 1994): 7-19.
9 Detienne, Marcel. The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.
10 Panofsky, Erwin. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948.

Verdon, Timothy Gregory, ed. Monasticism and the Arts. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1984.
11 Closkey, Mary A. Kant's Aesthetic. Albany, NY: State University Press, 1987.
14 Berman, Marshall. "Modernism in the Streets." In All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
16 Mallgrave, Harry Francis, and Eleftherios Ikonomou. Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.
18 Jarzombek, Mark. The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
21 Otero-Pailos, Jorge. Theorizing the Anti-Avant-Garde: Invocations of Phenomenology in Architectural Discourse, 1945-1989. Cambridge: MIT Dissertation, Department of Architecture, 2002.
23 Jarzombek, Mark. "A Prolegomenon to Critical Historiography." Journal of Architectural Education, 52, no. 4 (1999): 197-206.