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The Built Surface

v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Christy Anderson Karen Koehler

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English
Routledge
16 January 2019
This title was first published in 2002: Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing patterns of creation and reception. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed this relationship between the arts, although modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. These volumes explore the history of this exchange between the arts as it emerged from classical theory into artistic and architectural practice. Issues of visual representation, perspective, allegory, site specificity, ornamentation, popular culture, memorials, urban and utopian planning, and the role of treatises, manifestos, and other theoretical writings are addressed, as well as the critical reaction to these products and practices. This title represents a variety of methods, approaches, and diatectical interpretations - cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 154mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781138730540
ISBN 10:   1138730548
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Notes on contributors, List of figures, Preface: Christy Anderson and Karen Koehler, Introduction: Christy Anderson, 1. Architecture and painting: the biological connection, 2. Playing with boundaries: painted architecture in Roman interiors, 3. Geography, cartography and the architecture of power in the mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus, 4. inVISIBLE: picturing interiority in western Himalayan stupa architecture, 5. The representation of Maya architecture, 6. Abbot Suger and the Temple in Jerusalem: a new interpretation of the sacred environment in the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, 7. Falling through the cracks: the fate of painted palace facades in sixteenth-century Italy, 8. Verbal and visual abstraction: the role of pictorial techniques of representation in Renaissance architectural theory, 9. Architecture and the narrative dimension of two Alberti frontispieces of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, 10. Pieter de Hooch's revisions of the Amsterdam Town Hall, 11. Andrea Pozzo's Prospettiva de pittori e architetti: architecture as a system of representations, 12. Romanticism's Piranesi, 13. The baseless fabric of a vision': civic architecture and pictorial representation at Sir John Soane's Museum, 14. History and the image: from the Lyons School to Paul Delaroche, Index

Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler

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