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Author : Sylvia Lavin
Release : 1992
Genre : Aesthetic, French
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Book Rating : 668/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quatremere de Quincy by : Sylvia Lavin
Download or read book Quatremere de Quincy written by Sylvia Lavin. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language.
Author : Quatremere De Quincy
Release : 1999
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 178/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The True, the Fictive, and the Real by : Quatremere De Quincy
Download or read book The True, the Fictive, and the Real written by Quatremere De Quincy. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of this dictionary stems from Quatreme're's profound reflections on the nature of architecture: on the principles which are at the source of his rules and on the roles of imitation and invention within tradition. This book provides the first English translation of the theoretical essays from his seminal work, Le Dictionnaire Historique d' Architecture.
Author : Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy
Release : 2021-07-19
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 206/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quatremère de Quincy's Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of Works of Art by : Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy
Download or read book Quatremère de Quincy's Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of Works of Art written by Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy. This book was released on 2021-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most important Neoclassical art historian in the generation after Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). It is difficult now to appreciate his importance, due in part to the lack of translations of his 21 published books: three were rendered into English in the 19th century, and one in the 21st. The Moral Considerations has long been considered the most shattering polemic against public museums ever written. But I will show that Quatremère’s polemic was aimed, not against museums per se, but rather against the imperialist and secularist curatorial purposes of Parisian museums in the age of Revolution. His Neoclassical commitments maintained the centrality of religion, and of incarnation, to any proper understanding of the place and purpose of the fine arts.
Author : Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome)
Release : 2012
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens by : Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome)
Download or read book Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens written by Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome). This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quatremére de Quincy, the most famous art critic at the end of the Enlightenment, published two sets of letters about the role of museums. He first implored them to return works of art to their original settings but later argued in favor of the museum as a place where artworks can be safely stored and made available for artists to study. Immensely contraversial and influential since they were written two centuries ago, Quatremére's texts sum up the most bewildering moment of the debate on museums: did the new institution inauguate the death of art, or bring it to its perfection? This volume offers the first English translation of the letters, as well as an extensive introduction that reveals their content, the reason for their intellectual success, and how they enlarge contemporary disputes about cultural property, national claims and universal beauty.
Author : Donald Preziosi
Release : 2019-07-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Grasping the World by : Donald Preziosi
Download or read book Grasping the World written by Donald Preziosi. This book was released on 2019-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This landmark anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. A radical selection of key texts introduces the reader to the intense investigation of the modern European idea of the museum that has taken place over the last fifty years. Texts first published in journals and books are brought together in one volume with up-to-the-minute and specially commissioned pieces by leading administrators, curators and art historians. The selections are organized by key themes that map the evolution of the debate and introduced by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago, two considerable critics, who write with the edge and enthusiasm of art historians who have spent their lives working with museums. Grasping the World is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of art history and museum studies.
