European architecture 1750-1890 / Barry Bergdoll.
By: Bergdoll, Barry.
Material type: BookSeries: Oxford history of art.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: vi, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0192842226.Subject(s): Architecture -- Europe | Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Europe | Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- EuropeDDC classification: 724.19Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 724.19 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00055007 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most vitally experimental of art forms in a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Part I Progress, Enlightenment, Experiment
- Chapter 1 Neoclassicism: Science, Archaeology, and the Doctrin of Progress
- Chapter 2 What is ENlightenment? The City and the Public, 1750-89
- Chapter 3 Experimental Architecture: Landscape Gardens and Reform Institution
- Part II Revolutions
- Chapter 4 Revolutionary Architecture
- Part III Nationalism, Historicism, Technology
- Chapter 5 Nationalism and Stylistic Debates in Architecture
- Chapter 6 Historicism and New Building Types
- Chapter 7 New Technology and Architectural Form, 1851-90
- Chapter 8 The City Transformed, 1848-90
- Chapter 9 The Crisis of Historicism, 1870-93
- Notes
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Picture Credits
- Index