‎Saussey, Jacques‎
‎Invisible‎

‎Transforming space. Visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 250 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 68 col., 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579849.‎

‎Summary Transforming Space deals with visible and invisible changes in premodern cities, their causes and the way in which they were perceived and received. The chapters in this book analyse the development and management of urban space, combining case studies and insights from a range of cities from all over Europe. Several contributions deal with the impact of major events on the urban tissue: geopolitics; disasters such as fires or wars; expropriation or redevelopment projects directed by urban governments; religious change such as the Dissolution in England, and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation on the continent. On closer scrutiny, however, some of these major events were only an accelerator of already ongoing processes of change. By shifting the perspective from the city as a whole, to neighbourhoods, urban blocks or even plots of land, other chapters reveal how functional change or real estate dynamics changed the urban landscape almost imperceptibly. This book is written from a comparative perspective that takes into account path-dependency. Pre-existing power relations, ideology and mentality, the resilience of property structures, the impact of building regulations, subsidies, or the effects of real estate markets are shown to have had different outcomes for different social groups and the evolution of neighbourhoods. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations and platesList of contributors1. Transforming space. Visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities Jaap Evert Abrahamse and Heidi Deneweth I. Mitigating geopolitical and fire risks 2. Ravaging, reconstructing and reshaping. The transformation of townscape in Turku, 1300-1830 Liisa Sepp nen 3. Medieval Silesian cities and their transformations in the Late Middle Ages Rafa? Eysymontt 4. Up in smoke. The transforming power of fire safety policies in the Low Countries, 1250-1550 Janna Coomans II. Religion as an accelerator of urban change 5. Redevelopment in monastic towns of Late Medieval and Early Modern England Anna Anisimova 6. Continuity in change. A comparison between the centres of Bologna and Strasbourg, 1200-1650 Colin Arnaud 7. The measure of success. The case of the Strada Maqueda in Palermo, 1600-1750 Maurizio Vesco and Valeria Viola III. The impact of economic and demographic change on existing housing blocks 8. From pigsties to palaces. The demolition of Amsterdam's late-medieval town walls and the transformation of its edge zone Jaap Evert Abrahamse 9. Location and transformation. Changing plot structures in existing housing blocks in Bruges, 16th-19th centuries Heidi Deneweth 10. Intramural improvements. The redevelopment of Newcastle upon Tyne in the long eighteenth century Sarah Collins Plates‎

‎INVISIBLE CITIES. PAUL SEAWRIGHT,‎

‎, Fotogallery Wales Limited, 2007, Bound, illustrated cardboard, decorated endpapers, 235 x 375mm., 112pp., colour pictures troughout. ISBN 9781872771694. ISBN 9781872771694.‎

‎Photographic representation of Africa in a Western context - characterised by largely pejorative imagery - has always held a fascination for the artist, Paul Seawright, and "Invisible Cities" was conceived as an attempt to add another, less prescriptive, layer to the pictorial mix. This lavishly illustrated artist's book with a highly distinctive format, draws inspiration from Calvino's book of the same name - which asserts that a city is less defined by its physicality and more by the way its inhabitants move within. Combining portraiture and architectural studies, these large format photographic works made in Lagos, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Addis Ababa, focus on those seemingly interminable prosaic moments, glimpses of the everyday in the hidden recesses of the city. This new monograph, brimming with powerful full bleed pictures gives voice to these burgeoning urban developments and highlights a dramatic, shifting and sometimes troubled landscape barely visible to the developed world. It includes an interview with the artist by Russell Roberts. New!‎

‎Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages <br>Papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000" (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003)‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2005 Hardcover. XII 546 p., 99 b/w ill. 11 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503517599.‎

‎Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first "Europe," the conference explored the dominant conception of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the understanding of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibriums in the collective mentality within elites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.‎

‎mundo invisible de Ren Magritte‎

‎, Amigos del Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2010 Softcover, 176 pages, 28 x 23.5 cm, Spanish text. *Fine condition. ISBN 9786079540203.‎

‎El mundo invisible de Ren Magritte ‎

‎THE INVISIBLE MAN. A Grotesque Romance.‎

‎London, Arthur Pearson, 1897. In-8 de VIII et 245 pp., (1) f. Toile rouge de l’éditeur ornée sur le plat supérieur du titre et du nom de l’auteur frappés en lettres dorées ainsi que d’une représentation de l’Homme Invisible frappé à froid, dos lisse. 185 x 123 mm. First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black, page 1 misnumbered and pages 247 and 248 being publisher's ads. ÉDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE DE CE GRAND ROMAN DE SCIENCE-FICTION DE H. G. WELLS. Reginald, 15039 ; Currey, p. 520 ; Hammond, B4 ; Wells, 11 ; Anatomy of Wonder, II-1227. "The Invisible Man remains not only an inescapable influence on modern science fiction but also a "classic study of scientific hubris brought to destruction" (Clute & Nicholls, 1313). « Roman de l’écrivain anglais Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), publié en 1897. Le jeune Griffin fait des études de physique ; fort intelligent, mais très pauvre, il a découvert un moyen de rendre transparents tous les tissus, y compris les cellules vivantes et il expérimente son procédé sur lui-même [...]. Ce roman appartient à la série des récits merveilleux par lequel Wells commença sa carrière d’écrivain. Ils lui furent inspirés par les conquêtes de la science moderne. La question sociale occupait alors une place prépondérante dans l’esprit de l’auteur. Bien que ‘l’homme invisible’ se rende coupable de plusieurs crimes, il est le prolétaire génial qui, en fin de compte, est plus sympathique que le ‘gentilhomme’ Kemp, timide, secrètement envieux de la supériorité scientifique de son ancien camarade, et offensé de son manque d’éducation. Une assez terrible amertume se fait jour dans ce roman : si tu es pauvre, ne sois pas différent des autres, ne sois pas plus intelligent que la moyenne, ne te fi e pas aux riches ; ils essaieront de te détruire par tous les moyens. Le roman a eu un grand succès » (Dictionnaire des Œuvres, III, 592). « On ne connait guère Wells en France que comme l’auteur de ‘l’Homme invisible’, des ‘Premiers hommes dans la Lune’, de ‘L’Ile du docteur Moreau’, de ‘la Guerre des Mondes’ et de ‘la Machine à explorer le temps’, comme une sorte de Jules Verne beaucoup moins didactique, singulièrement habile à tirer de la physique et de la biologie les éléments d’une poésie fantastique. Mais H.G. Wells est aussi l’un des hommes qui dominent la pensée britannique dans le premier tiers du XXè siècle : il est, avec Kipling, et peut-être Galsworthy, l’une des images que l’Angleterre propose au monde de sa vie intellectuelle » (P. Nizan, Pour une nouvelle culture). BEL EXEMPLAIRE CONSERVE DANS LA RELIURE EN TOILE ROUGE DE L’EDITEUR, TEL QUE PARU. First edition of The Invisible Man, an attractive copy, clean with no writing or marks or inside, preserved in the publisher’s original red cloth, rare in this condition. ‎