Architecture, print culture, and the public sphere in eighteenth-century France /
Richard Wittman.
- x, 290 p.
- Classical tradition in architecture .
- Classical tradition in architecture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Academy and the public -- A network for debate -- The aestheticizing discourse of print -- Architecture and civic ideals -- Architecture, politics, and public life -- The city as critical allegory -- The debate on the Place Louis XV and the Louvre -- The impact of public debate -- Marigny's program -- A public for architecture -- A new paradigm for publicity -- The crisis of architectural representation -- Sainte-Genevieve and the unraveling of a tradition -- Politics and monuments under Louis XVI -- Private interest and the rhetoric of public good -- The disrepute of architecture -- Conclusion: the image of unity. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. Pt. IV. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution." "Presenting both a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book otters a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the cast facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon]. With these investigations, Wittman also reflects upon how the transformation of the public sphere altered the human relation to architecture, and to space in general, by privileging a virtual rather than embodied experience of publicness."--BOOK JACKET.
9780415774635
B8275297
2007018243
Architectural criticism--History--France--18th century. Architecture--Public opinion.--France--Paris Architecture and society--History--France--Paris--18th century. Classicism in architecture--France--Paris Public opinion--History--France--Paris--18th century.