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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of figures 8 Acknowledgements 11 1 The unease of motion 14 2 Early seventeenth-century staccato boundaries 31 3 Mid-century mobility of language and architectural theory 57 4 Travel at home 93 5 The disciplinary distraction of motion 127 6 Motion as mode of perception 165 Bibliography 182 Index 200 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780719098277,Language:English,OCLC:980836570 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 e

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Author

Skelton, Kimberley

Publisher

Manchester University Press Project MUSE

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719098260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Architecture, Art