Binding: Paperback
Description: This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth - century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most vitally experimental of art forms in a period of sweeping political social and economic change. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new theories of history new categories of scientific inquiry and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation. Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects the themes are elucidated by in - depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in both their local and European context.
Title: European Architecture 1750 - 1890
Author(s): Bergdoll Barry (Professor Of Art History Professor Of Art History Columbia University New York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192842220
Pages: 336 Pages, Colour And Black And White Halftones Throughout
Publication Date: 12/7/2000
Series: Oxford History of Art
Category: Social & Cultural History