The City Rehearsed : Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

ISBN-13: 9780415542326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 298 str.

Christopher Heuer

Opis

'The City Rehearsed' offers a new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It focuses on the active role his prints played in the life of urban readers outside of a narrowly-defined 'Flemish' architectural history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Iconoclasm’s Faces  Part 1: Performances of Order  1. Unbuilt Architecture in the World of Things  2. Antwerp: The City Rehearsed  3. Guidebooks to Chaos  Part 2: Perspective and Exile  4. The Vanishing Self  5. Hidden Terrors: The Perspective (1604-5)  Epilogue: Vredeman de Vries and the Modern

O autorze

Christopher P. Heuer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.