Modernity: Enlightenment and Revolution - Ideal and Unforeseen Consequence

ISBN-13: 9781138038820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 1002 str.

Christopher Tadgell

Opis

The seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a comprehensive survey of European architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England; to the triumph of Brutalism in the seventh decade of the twentieth century; on to a sketch of major trends building up to the turn of the millennium.

Spis treści

Foreword on Rationalism and Romanticism  Part 1: 18th-Century Rationalism and Romanticism  1.1. Augustan Prelude  1.2. Rationalists and Romanticists; Reductivists and Eclectics  1.3. The Apogee of French Classicism  1.4. Athens Revealed and Eclectic Diversity in Britain  1.5. The Sublime, the Visionary and Radical Eclecticism  Part 2: 19th-Century Historicism and Industrial Revolution  2.1. Bonaparte and Restored Bourbons  2.2. The British at Home and in the East  2.3. Germans, Russians and their neighbours  2.4. United States  2.5 Classicists, Goths and Engineers at Large  2.6. Supernational Historicism  Part 3: 20th-Century Modernism and Traditionalism  3.1. Mechanization and Nostalgia  3.2. Transatlantic Cross-currents  3.3. Nationalist Revivalists, Internationalist Reformers  3.4. The Modern Movement and its Opponents  3.5. Augean Coda  Further Reading.  Index