Richard Wittman

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution.

Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon].

Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429565915
• Artikelnr.: 56228033

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