Main entry:

Hurley, Cecilia, author.

Title & Author:

Monuments for the people : Aubin-Louis Millin's Antiquités nationales / Cecilia Hurley.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2013]

Description:

720 pages : illustrations, facsimilies, portraits ; 24 cm.

Series:

Collection théorie de l'art / Art theory (1400-1800) ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-644) and index.
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "As for Millin ...": from renown to obscurity -- The sources -- Nineteenth-century reception of the Antiquites -- The Magasin seen by Millin's contemporaries -- The archaeological writings -- National heritage: a renewed interest -- Bibliographers and bibliophiles -- The twentieth century: the difficult question of vandalism -- Art history's history -- ch. 2 "A scholar but not a pedant..." -- Family and youth -- Early intellectual life -- French Revolution -- Revolutionary enthusiasm -- Revolutionary journalist -- Dangerous friendships -- Imprisonment -- ch. 3 Curator and professor -- New duties -- Magasin encyclopedique -- Journeys -- The last years -- A sociable scholar -- ch. 4 The dilemma of destruction -- Differing reactions -- Contemporary reactions -- The historians' reactions -- The extent of the destruction -- Vandalism or iconoclasm? -- Tabula rasa -- Establishing the limits -- Responses -- ch. 5 The Antiquites nationales -- The publisher -- Risky rewards: the Grands homes -- Drouhin and the book market -- The printers -- Towards financial ruin -- Financing the book -- Marketing the book -- Folio edition -- A literary subterfuge? -- An abridged edition -- Mixed reception -- ch. 6 Researching antiquities -- Historians' working methods during the eighteenth century -- "Pour les avoir veues" -- "Pour les avoir entendues des tesmoins digne de foy" -- "Pour les avoir leues" -- Millin and the "pour les avoir veues" -- Millin and the "pour les avoir entendues des tesmoins digne de foy" -- Millin and the "pour les avoir leues" -- The written sources -- The visual sources -- ch. 7 In Albion's shadow -- Millin and England -- Anglophobia and Anglophilia -- Millin's "modele anglais" -- "Sinth, Antiquities" -- "Grose Antiquities of England" -- "Monasticon Anglicanum" -- "Antiquarium repertory" -- "typographica Britannica" -- "Naenia Britannica" -- "Collection of armures" -- "Archaeologia" -- Borrowings -- Form and organization -- Antiquarianism -- the arguments for and against -- What was a worthy monument? -- National archaeology -- ch. 8 The art of description -- Description in Millin's Antiquites nationales -- Architectural history and antiquarian studies -- Classic and mediaeval -- Linguistic limitations -- Text and image -- ch. 9 Reading between the lines -- Text and paratext -- The choice of monuments -- Defining a discourse -- Art-historical discourse -- National historical discourse -- Curiositas -- Organizing the material -- Creating order from chaos -- The recueil -- Starting from the beginning -- The past mirroring the present -- Working by allusion.

ISBN:

9782503536828 (paperback)
2503536824 (paperback)

Subject:

Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818. Antiquités nationales Criticism and interpretation.
Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818. Antiquités nationales.
Architecture, French.
Architecture France History 18th century.
Architecture France History 19th century.
Architecture française.
Architecture France Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture France Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture.
France.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818. Antiquités nationales.
Théorie de l'art (1400-1800) ; 3.

Aubin-Louis Millin's Antiquités nationales

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284312
Call No.: BIB 223051
Status: Available