Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

ISBN-13: 9780415514651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str.

Richard Wittman

Opis

Offering systematic surveys and detailed studies of the debates surrounding major Parisian architectural works in 18th century France, this book provides a new perspective on a turning point in the history of architecture, and its absorption into a nascent mass-media culture.

Recenzje

'This book suceeds admirably in clarifying an architectural culture with plenty of original points of view and exciting ideas that place eighteenth-century French architecture in a new perspective, and open new ways to assess and appreciate architectural writing and historiography.' -- Freek Scmidt, CAA Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: The Academy and the Public  1. A Network for Debate  2. The Aestheticizing Discourse of Print  3. Architecture and Civic Ideals  Part II: Architecture, Politics, and Public Life  4. The City as Critical Allegory  5. The Debate on the Place Louis XV and the Louvre  Part III: The Impact of Public Debate  6. Marigny's Program  7. A Public for Architecture  8. A New Paradigm for Publicity: 1759-1763  Part IV: The Crisis of Architectural Representation  9. Sainte-Geneviève and the Unraveling of a Tradition  10. Politics and Monuments under Louis XVI  11. Private Interest and the Rhetoric of Public Good  12. The Disrepute of Architecture  Conclusion: The Image of Unity

O autorze

Richard Wittman is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a cultural historian of early modern and modern European architecture and town planning, with secondary interests in theory and the historiography of architecture.