Here you will find information about books written by John Shannon Hendrix in the field of art and architecture
theory, as well as articles, conference papers, and experience as Professor of Art and Architectural History.
Books Written
Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.
An analysis of the relation between the theories of psychoanalysis (the structure of the psyche, linguistics
and perception), in particular those of Jacques Lacan, and theories and compositional strategies in architecture, focusing
on the writing and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended discussions of the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud,
Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida, and the work of architects such as Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini,
Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Concepts analyzed in relation to architecture include the signifier and signified
in Structural Linguistics, deep structure and surface structure, differance in Deconstruction; latent content and
manifest content in the dream work of Freud, as well as condensation and displacement, picture thinking and image making;
Lacanian concepts of the anchoring point and sliding in language, the mirror stage, ego formation, the matrix and mechanisms
of language, and primordial perception. Concepts of Eisenman for architecture which are analyzed include apperception, scaling,
decomposition, folding, blurring, the figural, the interstitial, and interiority.
Chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. The Trope of the Transformational Relation; 3. The Rhetorical Figure and the
Sliding of the Signifier; 4. Diagrams of the Imaginary and Symbolic; 5. Scaling and Dream Work; 6. The Dream and the Text;
7. Diagrams of Desire: The Real and the Gaze
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit: From Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel, New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
2005.
Examines the aesthetics of Plotinus, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel. Examines the Platonic bases of the aesthetics of Plotinus, and the Plotinian bases of the aesthetics of Schelling and
Hegel in the Philosophy of Spirit, Identity Philosophy (the relation between intellect and nature), and Transcendental Idealism.
The book examines the concept of art as philosophy, as a product of mind, and as an instrument of intellect in the relation
between reason and perception. Particular concepts analyzed include the dialectics of universal and particular, subjective
and objective, consciousness and self-consciousness, thought and matter in representation (Darstellung), and being-in-itself
(Ansich) and being-for-self (Fursich), as they are manifest in artistic representation.
Chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. The Symposium and the Aesthetics of Plotinus; 3. The Aesthetics of
Schelling: The Philosophy of Art; Bruno, or On the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things; System
of Transcendental Idealism; 4. Plotinian Hypostases in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; 5. The Aesthetics of
Hegel: Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics; Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Mind; 6. Architecture
and the Philosophy of Spirit
Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
An analysis of the role that Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophical systems have played in artistic production
and the understanding of architectonic space, with chapters on Anaximander, Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Cusanus, Leon Battista
Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Paul Cezanne, the Cubists and Deconstructivists. Interpretations of philosophical texts, artistic
treatises, and works of art and architecture in Western culture as they are related to Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophies.
Examines philosophical concepts such as the apeiron, arche, chora, cosmos, Idea,
intellectus divinus, implicato/explicato, coincidentia oppositorum, Intellectual Principle,
the Other, the heterogeneous, and deep structure, in relation to artistic concepts such as perspectiva naturalis/artificialis,
costruzione leggitima, scenographia, concinnitas, disegno, commensuratio, harmonic
proportions, transformational relationships, spacing, and dislocation.
Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures, New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
2003.
An analysis of the relation between architectural forms and philosophical structures throughout Western
culture. Chapters on Egypt, Archaic Greece, Francesco Borromini, Guarino Guarini and Bernardo Vittone, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
Gianbattista Piranesi, the Gothic Romance, Jacques Lacan and Roger Caillois, Sigmund Freud and The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari,
Georges Bataille and Frederick Kiesler, and The Body in the Theory of Making. Examines such philosophical concepts as the
Ennead and the zodiac, numerology and cosmology, Hermeticism and Neoplatonism, the tetractys, circuitus spiritualis,
Celestial Hierarchies, complicato/explicato, coincidentia oppositorum, Structural Rationalism,
the sublime, the unconscious, dream images, psychophysiological space, psychasthenia, the informe, the gaze, the
libido, optical theory, and the heterogeneous, in relation to architectural design.
The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work
of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen
Press,
2002.
An analysis of the role that philosophies and philosophical structures which were circulating in seventeenth-century
Rome played in the designs of the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, especially in the church of San Carlo alle Quattro
Fontane. The analysis includes a historical reconstruction of the setting of seventeenth-century Rome and an examination of
drawings and built work in relation to published diagrams and essays, which were translated by Borromini into geometries and
architectural forms.
Chapters: 1. Renaissance Precedent: Leon Battista Alberti; 2. The Structure of the Cosmos in the Baroque;
3. The Neoplatonic Idea at the Accademia di San Luca; 4. Syncretism and Architectural Syntax; 5. The Structuring of the Conceptual
Process; 6. Athanasius Kircher and Hermeticism; 7. Esoteric Symbols of Hermetic and Neoplatonic Philosophy; 8. Light, Vision
and Numerology; 9. The Transmutation of Geometries; 10. Neoplatonic Philosophy; 11. Presocratic Origins
History and Culture in Italy, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003.
An introductory survey of history and culture in Italy, based on classes, lectures and tours in Italy over
the course of four years. The survey includes personal experience, and analysis of significant figures in politics, literature,
philosophy and the arts.
Chapters: 1. Giordano Bruno and Intellectual Rebellion; 2. Venice, Vicenza and Milan; 3. Paolo Portoghesi:
Borromini and Postmodernism; 4. Mythological Origins in Crete and the Peloponnese; 5. Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento;
6. Baroque Architecture in Turin; 7. Primo Levi and Post-Holocaust Identity; 8. Antonio Gramsci and Marxist Cultural Theory;
9. Vienna and the Origins of Modernism; 10. Prague: Creativity and the Subconscious; 11. Giovanni Macchia: Sensuality and
Modern Life; 12. Futurism and the Obsession with Speed; 13. Calcio and Astrology in Modern Italy; 14. Silvio Berlusconi and
Capitalist Politics; 15. Life as Spectacle; 16. Calcata: A Bohemian Alternative; 17. Franco Archibugi and the Italian Language;
18. Campo Marzio: The Heart of Rome; 19. Genoa and the French Riviera; 20. Capri and Anacapri; 21. Thomas Aquinas and the
Great Synthesis; 22. Lorenzo Valla: Philology and Textual Criticism; 23. Tommaso Campanella: Political Revolt and Utopia;
24. Giambattista Vico and the Social Sciences; 25. Benedetto Croce and the Philosophy of Spirit; 26. Archetypes for Mythology
and Christianity in Egypt; 27. Olympia: The Greek Arcadia; 28. The Art Scene in Rome; 29. The Villa Farnesina; 30. Seneca
and Stoicism; 31. Constantine and Christianity; 32. Cicero and the Art of Oration; 33. Piazza San Pietro and the Arms of the
Church; 34. Classical Philosophy in the Vatican; 35. Borromini: Humanism and Neoplatonism; 36. The Cornaro Chapel: Spiritual
and Physical Ecstasy; 37. Pompeii and the Villa of the Mysteries; 38. Plotinus: Plato and the Ennead; 39. Saint Francis of
Assisi and the Universal Spirit; 40. Siena: The Renaissance that Might Have Been; 41. Saint Augustine and the Christian Community;
42. Leon Battista Alberti and the Modern Architect; 43. The City of Florence; 44. Michelangelo: Expression and Rebellion;
45. The Platonic Academy; 46. Sandro Botticelli and Classical Mythology; 47. Pisa: Monuments to an Empire; 48. Galileo and
the Birth of Science; 49. Umberto Eco and the Importance of Semiotics; 50. Andrea Palladio and Humanist Architecture; 51.
Byzantine Mosaics in Ravenna; 52. Giuseppe Terragni: Architecture and Politics; 53. Athens and Aix-en-Provence
Books Edited
Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature and the Visual Arts, New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, 2004.
Essays from a conference organized in Florence with Liana De Girolami Cheney, examining the role of Neoplatonic
aesthetics in the arts. There are chapters by contributors on Sufism, Proclus, Gioseffe Zarlino, Platonic Forms, Plotinus,
Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Giorgio Vasari, Denman
Ross, and Postmodern theory.
Neoplatonism and the Arts, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Essays from a conference organized in Rome with Liana De Girolami Cheney, examining the role that Neoplatonism
has played in artistic production in Italy. There are chapters by contributors on Georges Gemistos-Plethon, Marsilio
Ficino, Plato, Michelangelo, El Greco, Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher, The Myth of Hercules, Sandro Botticelli,
Dante, Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Clemente and Giovanni Macchia.
Articles
"The Return of Allegory to Architecture," Changing Territories, New Cartographies,
ACSA Conference Proceedings, 2004.
"Architecture and the Philosophy of Spirit," Spirit, ACSA Conference Proceedings,
2004.
"Introduction," "The Neoplatonic Aesthetics of Leon Battista Alberti,"
Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts, John Hendrix
and
Liana De Girolami Cheney eds., New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
"Gae Aulenti," "Leonardo Benevolo," "Vittorio Gregotti," "Pier Luigi Nervi," "Paolo
Portoghesi," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, New York: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2004.
"Introduction," "Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher," "Francesco Clemente
and Giovanni Macchia," Neoplatonism and the Arts, John Hendrix and Liana De
Girolami
Cheney eds., Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
"Neoplatonism in the Design of Baroque Architecture," Neoplatonism and Western
Aesthetics, Aphrodite Alexandrakis ed., Albany: State University of
New York Press,
2001.
"Symbols in the Designs of Francesco Borromini," Imaging Humanity, John Casey ed.,
Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 2001.
"Ascesa attraverso gerarchie neoplatoniche in San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,"
Francesco Borromini, Atti del convegno internazionale, Milano: Electa, 2000.
"Neoplatonic Philosophy and Roman Baroque Architecture," European Studies
Journal, 1999.
"The Body in the Theory of Making," Triangulating the Bodies of Architecture, ACSA
Conference Proceedings, 1996.
Presentations
"Origins of English Gothic Architecture at Lincoln," University of Lincoln, UK,
2008.
"The Philosophy of Intellect of Robert Grosseteste," Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy,
Fordham University, 2008.
"Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste and the Formation of
English Gothic Architecture," International Society for Neoplatonic Studies,
New Orleans, 2008.
"Perception as a Function of Desire in Ficino's De amore," Renaissance Society
of America, Chicago, 2008.
"Neoplatonism at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome," Humanities in Design
Creativity, University of Lincoln, UK, 2007.
"Perception and Language in Plotinus," Ancient and Medieval Philosophy,
Fordham University,
2007.
"Architecture and Dream Construction," Space and Mind, University of Texas,
Austin,
2007.
"Architecture and Psychoanalysis in the Seventeenth Century," Imaginary Cities,
Penn
State University, 2007.
"Neoplatonism and Perspectival Construction," Renaissance Society of America,
Miami,
2007.
"Neoplatonism and Psychoanalysis: Plotinus and Lacan," Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy, Fordham University, 2006.
"Architecture and Psychoanalysis," ACSA, Laval University, Quebec, 2006.
"Neoplatonic Bases of Hegelian Aesthetics," International Society for
Neoplatonic Studies,
Laval University, Quebec, 2006.
"Plato and Deconstruction: The Chora and In-Between," Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy,
Fordham University, 2005.
"The Symposium and the Aesthetics of Plotinus," International Society for
Neoplatonic Studies, New Orleans, 2005.
"Piero della Francesca's Theory of Perception," Renaissance Society of America,
University of Cambridge, UK, 2005.
"The Return of Allegory to Architecture," ACSA, Syracuse University, 2004.
"Architecture and the Philosophy of Spirit," ACSA, Judson College, 2004.
"The Plan of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane," Panel on Baroque
Architecture,
CUNY Graduate Center, 2004.
"The Intellectual Principle of Plotinus and Hegelian Self-Consciousness," Ancient
and
Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, 2004.
"Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophy and Architecture," Architecture and
Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK, 2004.
"Plotinian Hypostases in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," International Society
for Neoplatonic Studies, University of Liverpool, UK, 2004.
"Anaximander and Plotinus," Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham
University, 2003.
"The Neoplatonic Aesthetics of Leon Battista Alberti," Neoplatonic Aesthetics,
Institute of Fine and Liberal Arts, Florence, 2003.
"Anaximander and Plato," Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Cathedral of Saint
John the Divine, New York, 2003.
"Greek Revival Architecture in Rhode Island," Styles in New England Architecture,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, 2002.
"Nicolas Cusanus and the Transmutation of Geometries," International Society for
Neoplatonic
Studies, University of Maine, 2002.
"The Platonic Geometries of Cezanne," Mediterranean Studies Association, Aix-
en-Provence, France, 2001.
"Plato and Natural Law," Plato and Law, University of Athens, Greece, 2001.
"Ascesa attraverso gerarchie neoplatoniche in San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,"
Borromini and the Baroque Universe, Rome, 2000.
"Francesco Borromini and Athanasius Kircher," Neoplatonism and the Arts in
Italy, American University in Rome, 2000.
"Philosophical Traditions in Contemporary Italian Painting," Neoplatonism and
the Arts in Italy, American University in Rome, 2000.
"The Construction of an Ethical Rationality in Plato's Laws," Olympic Center,
Olympia, Greece, 1999.
"Designs of Francesco Borromini," Imaging Humanites, Loyola University in
Rome, 1999.
"Baroque Aesthetics," Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics, University of
Crete, 1998.
"Baroque Architecture and Neoplatonic Philosophy," Renaissance Studies,
University of Miami, 1998.
"The Ethics of Transgression in Aesthetic Ideologies," Mythology and Ethics,
Cornell University, 1997.
"Philosophical Structures in Architecture," Architectural Theory and Practice,
University of Pennsylvania, 1997.
"Psychoanalysis and Spatial Construction," Psychoanalysis and Cultural
Studies, University of Rochester, 1997.
"Social Construction and the Unconscious," Transporting Cultures, Binghamton
University, 1997.
"The Body in the Theory of Making," ACSA, Buffalo, 1996.
See Resume for education and teaching experience.
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