Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (v. 1) (Reinterpreting Classicism S.) - Hardcover

Anderson, Christy; Koehler, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075460022X ISBN 13: 9780754600220

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002

Synopsis

Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing patterns of creation and reception. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed this relationship between the arts, although modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. These volumes explore the history of this exchange between the arts as it emerged from classical theory into artistic and architectural practice. Issues of visual representation, perspective, allegory, site specificity, ornamentation, popular culture, memorials, urban and utopian planning, and the role of treatises, manifestos, and other theoretical writings are addressed, as well as the critical reaction to these products and practices. This title represents a variety of methods, approaches, and diatectical interpretations - cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases ideologically potent, and therefore significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 075460022X
• ISBN 13: 9780754600220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320