The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts - Couverture rigide

Rykwert, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226732614 ISBN 13 : 9780226732619

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Synopsis

Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when--breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between visual artist, architect, and engineer--architects and laypeople alike began to see these vocations as distinct. Exploring how this separation of roles occurred, and how in the twentieth century arts and architecture started to come together again, The Judicious Eye is the definitive history of the relationships between painting, sculpture, and architecture as they have shifted over the past three centuries.
Joseph Rykwert locates the first major shift during the Enlightenment, when key philosophers drew implied and explicit distinctions between the visual arts and architecture. As time progressed, architects came to see themselves as part of an established profession, while visual artists increasingly moved toward society's margins, deepening the chasm between them. Detailing the eventual attempts to heal this breach, Rykwert concludes in the mid-twentieth century, when the artistic avant-garde turned to architects in its battle against a stagnant society. The Judicious Eye, then, provides a necessary foundation for understanding architecture and visual art in the twenty-first century, as they continue to break new ground by growing closer to their intertwined roots.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Rykwert is the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include The Idea of a Town, The Necessity of Artifice, and The First Moderns.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0226732614
• ISBN 13: 9780226732619
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible