The architecture of bathing : body, landscape, art / Christie Pearson.

Main entry:

Pearson, Christie, 1970- author.

Title & Author:

The architecture of bathing : body, landscape, art / Christie Pearson.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Description:

412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bodies -- Landscapes -- Practices.

Summary:

"The first book to examine the global architecture of bathing; a visually rich union of current thinking from academic, popular, and design culture as well as queer theory and feminist critique"-- Provided by publisher.
"We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written, with 245 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle"-- Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780262044219 hardcover
0262044218 hardcover

Subject:

Public baths.
Architecture and society.
Bains publics.
Architecture et société.
public baths.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308869
Call No.: BIB 254192
Status: Available

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