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What is classicism? / Michael Greenhalgh

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : S.T. Martín's Press, 1990.Description: 72 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0856709700
  • 0312049250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701 G73w
Contents:
Introduction -- Classicism: A broad definition -- The classical tradition: Origins and importance -- Classicism: The middle ages and the renaissance -- Classicism in medieval and renaissance architecture -- The 17th century -- The 18th century: History and Neo-classicism -- Classicism in painting and sculpture: 18th and 19th centuries -- Academies and change -- Neo-classicism in 19th-Century architecture -- Classicism and the battle of the styles -- Classicism in 20th-century painting and sculpture -- Modern architecture and classicism -- Planning the modern city -- Modernism and post-Modernism in architecture -- post-modernism and historicism -- Conclusion: classicism. Post-Modernism and future -- Epilogue -- Notes.
Summary: We would like to thank the many architects who have given permission for reproduction of their works, and the following who have lent us their photograps: Demetri Porphyrios, and Black Cover: Liam O'Connor, Michael Greenhalgh, Jean-Claude Gerlier, Charles Jencks, Allan Greenberg, Witney Cox, works reproduced are from the following collections: Dulwich picture Gallery, Musèe des Augustins, Tolouse, Metropoliten Museum of Art, The John Soane Museum (from John Soane, Academy), venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, The Doria Gallery, Rome, Helen Rosenau, Boulèe and visionary architecture (Academy), Gerard Legrand, Giorgio de Chirico (Academy), All other material from Academy archives.
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