Description
| Product ID: | 9780192842220 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford History of Art |
| Title: | European Architecture 1750-1890 |
| Authors: | Author: Barry Bergdoll |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, History of art, Architecture, Social and cultural history, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Architecture, Social & cultural history, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This comprehensive examination of 18th and 19th-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of social, economic and political upheaval. It offers an analysis of the ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most experimental art forms in the period. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-09-14 |
