European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192842226 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts, focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new theories of history, new categories of scientific inquiry, and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation. Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects, the themes are elucidated by in-depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in both their local and European context.. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention
Barry Bergdoll is Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York. Author and editor of numerous works on 19th century architecture, he 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
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A very important addition to many architectural history courses!"--Nina James-Fowler, Smith College. Especially good at addressing German and Central European development in a concise manner."--Linda Phipps, University of California, Berkeley"Bergdoll gives a comprehensive survey with splendid chapters. "A well-presented thematic survey of the subject. Affordable and readable