Mark Crinson, Richard J. Williams

The Architecture of Art History (eBook, PDF)

A Historiography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?

Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years.

In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Wölfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350020931
• Artikelnr.: 54951454

Autorenporträt

Mark Crinson is Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The German Tradition 2. The Architectural Unconscious
Steinberg and Baxandall 3. Modernism
Institutional and Phenomenal 4. From Image to Environment
Reyner Banham's Architecture 5. The New Art History 6. October's Architecture Conclusion Bibliography Index