Entrée principale:

Hurley, Cecilia, author.

Titre et auteur:

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.

Série(s):

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)

Sujet:

Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818. Antiquités nationales Criticism and interpretation.
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.

Classification/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Théorie de l'art (1400-1800) ; 3.

Aubin-Louis Millin's Antiquités nationales

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 284312
Cote: BIB 223051
Statut: Disponible