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This book is the first ever to investigate a fascinating and fundamental but relatively unfamiliar subject: the revival of interest in the Byzantine style of architecture and decoration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Byzantine Revival was always a minority cult that attracted outsiders, visionaries and extremists, and J B Bullen's original and scholarly narrative paints a vivid and entertaining picture of the colourful figures in Germany, Austria, France, Britain and America who rediscovered Byzantium and reinterpreted its style to promote widely differing aims.
Through its sweeping scope, this interdisciplinary study is thought-provoking and timelessly absorbing, intellectually and aesthetically.
"An explosive, luscious book, with sparkling gold walls on almost every page; and it is also an extremely useful one, making sense of the work of, say, Klimt and Tiffany by placing in a fresh historical context."―Timothy Brittain-Catlin, World of Interiors
"Enjoyable... Bullen’s thesis triggers new reactions to buildings and connections that you thought you understood, or perhaps had never considered... Written in a lively and accessible style... Handsomely designed, with opulent photography."―The Victorian (Magazine of the Victorian Society
"Brilliant... The range is amazingly wide: we meet Yeats and Ruskin, Morris and Tiffany; touch on Ingres, Cézanne, Moreau and Klimt... This book is a model of how history should be written."―The Good Book Guide
"A fascinating survey."―Notes & Queries (bulletin of ASTENE, Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
"A landmark work... The production values of this spectacular book deserve high praise: lavish is the only appropriate word for the illustrations, with more than two hundred wonderfully sharp colour plates. For a work which has full scholarly paraphernalia, including footnotes and bibliography, it will also delight and impress a wider audience. If there is a whiff of the coffee table, it is straight from the shores of the Bosphorus."―Stephen Wildman, Ruskin University, University of Lancaster, Art History
"Marvellously wide-ranging... Bullen writes elegantly and deploys his scholarship without pedantry. To state that Richard Wagner, Gustav Klimt and William Morris all emerge from this book is to give only a glimpse of its interest... Physically, the book is an object to be prized: the illustrations are uniformly excellent, and perfectly integrated with the text... A book which combines beauty with intelligence, and sophistication with grace. It deserves a wide readership."―Gervase Rosser, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, The Art Book
"Any number of texts outline the Classical and Gothic influences in 19th Century art, but this is the first in-depth survey of the impact of Byzantium... In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Germany, Austria, France, Britain and America all looked to the East for inspiration that turned up in architecture, painting and decorative arts. For artists, think Gustave Moreau, Gustav Klimt and Louis Comfort Tiffany to start. There are many more, persuasively explicated and beautifully illustrated, in this pioneering volume."―Chicago Tribune, Sunday
"Manifestations of the exotic and theatrical complexities of neo-Byzantine influences on the 19th- and 20th-century architecture and art are the focus of this studious interdisciplinary survey... The author excels in interweaving Byzantine-inspired architecture and art with writings by Goethe, Yeats, and other authors... [T]he most comprehensive survey currently available in English."―Library Journal
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Book Description gebunden. Condition: Neu. Neu -Der großartig bebilderte Band skizziert die Wiederentdeckung der Kunst und Architektur des Byzantinischen Reiches in Europa und Nordamerika im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Designer, Künstler und Mäzene wie Louis Comfort Tiffany, Gustav Klimt, Edward Burne-Jones und Bayerns König Ludwig I. wurden von dem hoch dekorativen Stil des alten Byzanz - dem heutigen Istanbul - inspiriert. Diese einzigartige und bahnbrechende interdisziplinäre Studie ist die erste umfassende Darstellung der verschiedenartigen Erscheinungen des Byzantinismus in Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Nordamerika. Reich illustriert mit byzantinischen Originalwerken und mit den Werken, die von ihnen inspiriert wurden, umfasst der großformatige Band die Bereiche Politik, Religion, Literatur und Kunst und stellt somit eine exemplarische Studie der Kulturgeschichte dar. Englische Originalausgabe.\\nErscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2003 Schlagwörter: byzantium rediscovered, j.b, bullen, berlin 2003, phaidon verlag, mittelalter kunst, kunst mittelalter, mittelalterkunst, kunstbücher mittelalter, mit Autor: JB Bullen Sachgruppen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik, Geschichte, Mittelalter Preisänderung: 20.03.2024 Anzahl Seiten: 240 Format: 29,90 x 26,10 x 3,10 cm VergleichspreisMax: 75 240 pp. Deutsch. Seller Inventory # 259110