Barry Bergdoll (Professor of Art History, Professor of Art History,

European Architecture 1750-1890

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of social, economic and political upheaval. It offers an analysis of the ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most experimental art forms in the period.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Art
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 169mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842220
• ISBN-10: 0192842226
• Artikelnr.: 21046533

Autorenporträt

Barry Bergdoll is Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York. Author and editor of numerous works on 19th century architecture, particularly in France and Germany, his publications include: Le Panthéon: Symbole des Revolutions (Paris, 1989), Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry (MIT, 1994), Karl Freidrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (Rizzoli, 1994) and Mastering McKim's Plan (Columbia University Press, 1997). Bergdoll has served as curator or curatorial consultant at the Musée d'Orsay, Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has served as exhibitions editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
1. Neoclassicism: Science, Archaeology and the Doctrine of Progress
2. What is Enlightenment? The city and the public, 1750-1789
3. Sensationalism from landscape garden to the architecture of reform, 1750-1800
4. Revolutionary Architecture
5. Nationalism and Debates on Architectural Style
6. Historicism and new building types
7. New technology and architectural form
8. The City Transformed
9. Fin-de-Siècle
Bibliographical essay
Timeline
Glossary
Index.