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Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque

Jeremy Tambling | Louis Lo
US $22.40
US $28.00
publisher date
2009/04
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isbn
9789882205703
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book format
PDF
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publisher name
香港大學出版社
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旅遊 > 中國 > 澳門
Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque is a guide-book with a difference. It brings to the reader the art and architecture of Macao and the baroque treasures that make the territory so attractive. Lavishly illustrated, Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque helps the reader who wants to understand the complex history and layout of the city as a Portuguese ex-colony founded in the sixteenth century, and as a modern Chinese city. As the authors consider the special nature of Macao’s baroque, they discuss whether its Chinese architecture—its temples, gardens and houses—is also baroque; and what is the importance of the new casino architecture, much of which imitates ‘the baroque’ in its postmodern character. Weaving discussion of Camões’ epic poem, The Lusiads, about Portuguese imperialism, and Chinnery’s paintings into the exploration of Macao’s present buildings, the book contains 125 original photographs that add to the unique perspective that it provides for the thoughtful visitor or the longstanding lover of the city. To create this new way of looking at Macao, the authors draw on critical, cultural and ‘postmodern’ theory inspired by the baroque, discussing in particular what the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze can bring to our understanding of Macao and the baroque. The book gives a sophisticated reading of contemporary literary and cultural theory, and theory about cities, and helps the student understand this through the detailed reading it gives of the streets of Macao as a specific postcolonial and postmodern city. This original and stimulating book examines Macao’s heritage, and asks as much about the cultural memories stored up in the city as it does about its new and exciting architecture.

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Jeremy Tambling
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香港大學出版社成立於1956年,隸屬於亞洲最具影響力的英語學府——香港大學。出版社每年出版逾三十種新書,且中文書的比例持續增加,現已超過四分之一。憑藉香港獨特的國際地位,香港大學出版社的書籍深入探討、審視並彰顯亞洲在世界中的角色。我們在中國歷史與文化、法律、公共衛生、社會工作、電影與媒體研究、藝術,以及建築與城市規劃等領域的出版物尤為享有盛譽。

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