Main entry:

Naginski, Erika.

Title & Author:

Sculpture and enlightenment / Erika Naginski.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, 2009.

Description:

vii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The pyramid, the fragment, and the Royal Necropolis. Vandalisme avant la lettre -- Grave architecture -- Monasticism under fire -- Diderot's monument. Skepticism and the afterlife -- Allegories of conjugal virtue -- The Sens Monument -- Sculpture and Polemos. "Sculpture, like history-" -- Ingenium -- Hermathena (on visual polemics) -- The temple of revolution. In Quintilian's footsteps -- The rites of man and citizen -- Posterity's conundrum -- The object of contempt. Propulsion -- Dispersion -- Reassembly -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Summary:

"This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness—a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire? Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects—from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon—Erika Naginski appraises how the Enlightenment art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity." --Publisher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780892369591 (hardcover)
0892369590 (hardcover)

Subject:

Europa
Public sculpture Europe.
Sculpture, European 18th century.
Architecture Europe History 18th century.
Symbolism in art.
Monuments Europe.
Memorials Europe.
Sculpture publique Europe.
Sculpture européenne 18e siècle.
Symbolisme dans l'art.
Architecture.
Memorials.
Monuments.
Public sculpture.
Sculpture, European.
Aufklärung
Architektur
Plastik
Symbolism in art Europe.
Frankreich Architektur Geschichte 1700-1800.
Frankreich Grabmal Geschichte 1700-1800.
Frankreich Plastik Geschichte 1700-1800.
Europe.
1750-1799
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Getty Research Institute

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283192
Call No.: BIB 221239
Status: Available