Main entry:

Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879.

Title & Author:

Style in the technical and tectonic arts, or, Practical aesthetics / Gottfried Semper ; introduction by Harry Francis Mallgrave ; translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave and Michael Robinson.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, ©2004.

Description:

viii, 980 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Series:

Texts & documents

Notes:
Translation of: Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten; oder, Praktische Aesthetik: Ein Handbuch für Techniker, Künstler und Kunstfreunde, 2 vols. (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag für Kunst & Wissenschaft, 1860; Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1863).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 921-954) and index.
Introduction / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- Style in the technical and tectonic arts; or, Practical aesthetics: A handbook for technicians, artists, and friends of the arts: Part 1, Technical origin of the most important forms, types, and symbols in architecture -- Prolegomena -- Volume 1. Textile art: Considered in itself and in relation to architecture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classification of the technical arts -- 3. Textiles, A: General-formal -- 4. Textiles, B: Technical-historical -- Volume 2. Ceramics, tectonics, stereotomy, metallurgy: Considered in themselves and in relation to architecture -- 5. Ceramics, A: Aesthetic-formal -- 6. Ceramics, B: Technical-historical -- 7. Tectonics (carpentry), A: General-formal -- 8. Tectonics, B: Technical-historical -- 9. Stereotomy (stone construction), A: Aesthetic-formal -- 10. Stereotomy, B: Technical-historical -- 11. Metallurgy (metalwork) -- Semper's table of contents -- Plates -- Works cited by Semper -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-79) derives less from his monumental buildings in Dresden, Zurich, and Vienna than from his Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts (1860-63). Semper's landmark survey of the motives giving rise to the technical arts (textiles, ceramics, carpentry, masonry) explores the symbolic and material preconditions of style. An extended inquiry into the inner principles of artistic form, this work radically altered the intellectual field for aesthetics and art history and stands as a vital document in the consolidation of modern architectural theory."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892365978
9780892365975

Subject:

Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture History.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture Histoire.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
architectural ornament.
Architecture.
Architekturtheorie
Stilistiek.
Kunstnijverheid.
Bouwkunst.
Décoration architecturale.
Esthétique.
Ordre architectural.
Style architectural.
Kunsthandwerk Stil Geschichte.
Stil Kunsthandwerk Geschichte.
Baustil Geschichte.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mallgrave, Harry Francis.
Robinson, Michael.
Getty Research Institute.
Texts & documents.

Practical aesthetics

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231171
Call No.: NA44.S473.A73 2004
Status: Available