Classicism and modernity : architectural thought in eighteenth-century Britain / Barbara Arciszewska.

Main entry:

Arciszewska, Barbara, 1962- author.

Title & Author:

Classicism and modernity : architectural thought in eighteenth-century Britain / Barbara Arciszewska.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Neriton, 2010.

Description:

544 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-517) and indexes.
Dust jacket.
This publication was facilitated by the CCA Study Centre Visiting Scholars Program.
CCA mentioned in preface.

Summary:

"The book redefines the significance of Palladianism as one of the central discourses of eighteenth-century British culture. By revealing the interdependence between British and Continental architecture of the period, and by reintegrating Palladian classicism with contemporary British culture in all its manifestations (from imported opera to science, commerce and argriculture), this work challenges the current scholarly paradigm which constructs Palladianism as an essentially indigenous phenomenon (a "national taste" in architecture) and as an elitist high art form. The author interprets contemporary architectural publications as fundamental instruments of nascent modernity (aiding rationalization of the state and its institutions), and demonstrates that Palladian classicism promoted in these texts was a site of negotiation between traditional and modern concepts of political power and patronage, national identity, and social order. In Arciszewska's ground-breaking analysis we see classicism revealed as an ideological and visual regime filling the void created by the collapse of traditional, pre-modern foundations of authority-- as a contested terrain in which power and ideology, class, gender and national interests intersected with great intensity, reshaping eighteenth-century Britain."--Jacket

ISBN:

9788375431537
8375431532

Subject:

Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main
Classicism in architecture England History 18th century.
Architecture England History 18th century.
Architecture and society England History 18th century.
Classicisme en architecture Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture et société Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Civilization.
Classicism in architecture.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Palladianismus
England Civilization 18th century.
Angleterre Civilisation 18e siècle.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture. Centre d'étude.
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Architectural thought in eighteenth-century Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272776
Call No.: NA966.5.C55 A7 2010
Status: Available

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