Main entry:

Camille, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame : Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity / Michael Camille.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2009].
©2019

Description:

xvii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Abbreviations of Locations and Sources of Illustrations -- PART I: RESTORATION -- 1. Monsters of Reason: The Gargoyles of Viollet-Le-Duc -- i. The 1843 Project and Its Transformation -- ii. Drawings by Viollet-le-Duc and Lassus -- iii. Viollet-le-Duc's Anti-iconographic Imagination -- 2. Monsters of Stone: The Gargoyles of Victor Joseph Pyanet -- i. The Sculptor of Ornament -- ii. The Myth of the Medieval Craftsman -- iii. Life and Death on the Building Site -- 3. Monsters of Romanticism: The Gargoyles of Victor Hugo -- i. Quasimodo's Grimace and the Craze for Gargoyles -- ii. The Book Will Kill the Building -- iii. The View from Notre-Dame -- iv. Micheler and the Devil's Ogival Eye -- 4. Monsters of Race: The Gargoyles of Science -- i. The Spirit of Evil: Physiognomy -- ii. The Wandering Jew: Aryanism -- iii. The Hairy Ape: Evolution -- iv. The Cretin Unicorn: Degeneration -- v. Stones and Bones: Paleontology -- 5. Monsters of Revolution: The Gargoyles of Politics -- i. Political Animals on the Left and Right -- ii. The Brute and the Bourgeois -- iii. The Wild Beast and the Revolutionary Worker -- iv. Shrouded Birds and Murdered Bishops -- v. The Eagle and the Emperor -- EPILOGUE TO PART I: THE GARGOYLES RESTORED (1864) -- PART II: REPRODUCTION -- 6. Monsters of Melancholy: The Gargoyles of Charles Méryon -- i. The Stryge's Sex -- ii. The Self and the Squatting Ape -- iii. The Suicidal Stare -- 7. Monsters of Light: The Gargoyles of Photographers -- i. The Dandy as Beholder: Charles Nègre and Henri Le Secq -- ii. The Worker as Beholder: Henri Le Secq and Viollet-le-Duc -- iii. The Beast as Beholder: From Marville to Mieusement -- 8. Monsters of Sex: The Gargoyles of Gender -- i. Love among the Gargoyles -- ii. Freud, Hysteria, and the Gynecologic Gargoyle -- iii. Huysmans's Chimera: The Cathedral as Whore -- iv. Lulu Makes the Gargoyles Speak -- v. Gay Gargoyles of the Nineties -- 9. Monsters of the Media: The Gargoyles in the Twentieth Century -- i. The Chimerical Postcard -- ii. Dark Gargoyles: Surrealism, Fascism, and the Occult -- iii. White Gargoyles: American Gothic from Winslow Homer to Disney -- iv. Global Gargoyles on the Internet -- EPILOGUE TO PART II: THE GARGOYLES RESTORED AGAIN (2000) -- APPENDIX: The Chimeras (a List and Photographic Survey) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument." "Michael Camille begins by recounting architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc's ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh creations - symbolizing an imagined past - whose modernity lay precisely in their nostalgia. He goes on to map the critical reception and many-layered afterlives of these chimeras, notably in the works of such artists and writers as Charles Meryon, Victor Hugo, and photographer Henri Le Secq. Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles' place in the twentieth-century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company." "Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images of its monumental yet whimsical subjects, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame is a must-read for historians of art and architecture and anyone whose imagination has been sparked by the lovable monsters gazing out over Paris from one of the world's most renowned vantage points."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780226092454 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226092453 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hugo, Victor 1802-1885
Meryon, Charles 1821-1868
Pyanet, Victor 1796-1848
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel 1814-1879
Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral)
Notre-Dame de Paris.
Notre Dame Paris
Gargoyles France Paris.
Gargoyles in art.
Gargoyles in literature.
Gargouilles (Architecture) France Paris.
Gargouilles (Architecture) dans l'art.
Gargouilles (Architecture) dans la littérature.
Gargoyles
Bauplastik
Kirchenbau
Kunst
Motiv
Ungeheuer
Wasserspeier
Gargouilles (architecture)
Monstres dans la Bible.
France Paris
Frankreich
Paris (France) Cathédrale Notre-Dame.
Paris Notre-Dame.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262034
Call No.: BIB 193090
Status: Available