Narrating the Globe

Name: Narrating the Globe
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
SKU: 9780262047975
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The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture

Автор: Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani

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Издател: MIT Press Ltd

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How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2023

страници

512

EAN

9780262047975

Enbook ID

42860822

Издател

MIT Press Ltd

Теглоt

2494

Размери

216 x 286

Пълно описание

How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architectureand shaped the discipline as we know it today.

The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the grand history of world architecture. This genre often expressed a deeply Eurocentric worldview, largely dismissing non-Western architecture through narratives of historical progress and stylistic beauty. Yet even as nineteenth-century historians worked to construct an exclusive architectural canon, they were engaged in constant debate over its categories and constraints. Narrating the Globe traces the emergence of this historical canon, exposing the questions and problems that prompted the canons very formation.

Bringing together architectural historians from around the world, this collection of essaysthe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century architectural history survey as a literary genreincludes overviews of the origins and legacy of the global architecture survey genre, as well as close examinations of key works, including books by lesser-known but intriguing authors such as Louisa C. Tuthill, Christian L. Stieglitz, and Daniel Ramée, and the more famous surveys by James Fergusson, Franz Kugler, Banister Fletcher, and Auguste Choisy. Narrating the Globe is an illuminating read for anyone interested in architectural historys long, complex, and often tendentious trajectory.

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