TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wittman,Richard
TI  - Architecture, print culture, and the public sphere in eighteenth-century France
T2  - Classical tradition in architecture
SN  - 9780415774635
AV  - NA2599.5 .W58 2007
U1  - 720.944/09033 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architectural criticism
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Paris
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Classicism in architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. I; The Academy and the public --; 1; A network for debate --; 2; The aestheticizing discourse of print --; 3; Architecture and civic ideals --; Pt. II; Architecture, politics, and public life --; 4; The city as critical allegory --; 5; The debate on the Place Louis XV and the Louvre --; Pt. III; The impact of public debate --; 6; Marigny's program --; 7; A public for architecture --; 8; A new paradigm for publicity --; Pt. IV; The crisis of architectural representation --; 9; Sainte-Genevieve and the unraveling of a tradition --; 10; Politics and monuments under Louis XVI --; 11; Private interest and the rhetoric of public good --; 12; The disrepute of architecture --; Conclusion: the image of unity
N2  - "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
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