Richard Wittman

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first study of how architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere. Depicting architecture's passage into a mediatized public culture as an historic turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of a changing configuration of individual, society, and space, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.

Produktdetails

• The Classical Tradition in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780415514651
• ISBN-10: 0415514657
• Artikelnr.: 36143531

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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