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John Summerson (1904–1992), author of The Classical Language of Architecture and Architecture in Britain: 1530–1830; Sarasi Kumar Saraswati (1906–1980), Bangladeshi historian of art and architecture; John Harvey (1911–1997), English Gothic architecture and architects; Bruno Zevi (1918-2000), modern achitecture
Architects also occur in modern fiction. Examples include Howard Roark , protagonist in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ; Bloody Stupid Johnson, a parody of Capability Brown who appears in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels; and Slartibartfast , designer of planets in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...
The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects or Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni is a series of artist biographies written by Gian Pietro Bellori (1613–1696), whom Julius von Schlosser called "the most important historiographer of art not only of Rome, but all Italy, even of Europe, in the seventeenth century". [1]
Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author. The following authors were listed twice: Roberto Bolaño, Edward P. Jones, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Philip Roth. [2]
Pages in category "Modernist architects" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 240 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The expressions of famous artists of the modern era are remarkable, and they tell the story of a culture that has grown ever more intriguing, colorful, and complex. #21 Ai Weiwei (August 28, 1957 ...
This is a partial list of 21st-century writers. This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works.