Author: Helen RosenauPublisher: London : Academy Editions ; New York : Harmony Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Boullée & Visionary Architecture
Author: Helen RosenauPublisher: London : Academy Editions ; New York : Harmony Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Boullée and Visionary Architecture
Author: Helen RosenauVisionary Architects
Author: Jean-Claude LemagnyPublisher: Hennessey & Ingalls
ISBN: 9780940512351
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The works included here by the three 18th-century French architects Boullee, Ledoux, and Lequeu include architectural drawings of geometric, colossal buildings that verge on science fiction, as well as more mundane neo-classical works built for the French aristocracy. Published first as a catalog for a traveling exhibition originating at the U. of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, the 148 drawings from the Cabinet d'Estampes in Paris, are each illustrated with a b&w plate, and followed by a short catalog entry. There is a bibliography, but no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Etienne- Louis Boullée 1728-1799, Theoretician of revolutionary architecture
Author: Jean-Marie Pérouse de MontclosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Visionary Architects
Author: Boullée & Visionary Architecture, Including Boullées's 'Architecture, Essay on Art'
Author: Helen ROSENAUThe Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
Author: Andrew McClellanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251261
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Art museums, cases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values have been contested as never before. This engaging thematic history of the art museum from its inception in the eighteenth century to the present offers an essential framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States.
Lequeu
Author: Philippe DuboyPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Jean-Jacques Lequeu does in fact hide behind the most enigmatic and controversial smile in the history of art, writes Philippe Duboy in a book that is one of the most tantalizing examples of architectural investigation ever produced. It is an extraordinary compilation - part speculative biography, part meticulous research, with hundreds of intriguing drawings, many in color - that unravels the mystery of this eighteenth-century maverick artist whose drawings have established him variously as a visionary architect associated with Boullee and Ledoux, forerunner of surrealism, and inventor of bad taste. Lequeu's architectural drawings from the legendary portfolios Architecture civile and Nouvelle methode are presented here in their entirety, along with his Lewd Figures, perhaps the oddest feature of the whole collection. The drawings are accompanied by long captions, misspelt and ungrammatical, but written in a flawless bureaucratic hand. The artist's marginalia provide insights into his visions, which seem dominated by an obsession with petrified forms and a recurring preoccupation with sex. Interleaved with the drawings are curious autobiographical papers. And it is here that Duboy's investigation of Lequeu begins to reveal strange clues. He discovers that Lequeu was not an architect at all but a government bureaucrat, a draftsman who ended up living in a brothel. Between the brothel and the obscure office from which he was eventually fired, he produced his encyclopedia of the universe - bizarre portraits of nuns baring their breasts and other lewd figures, and architectural fantasies of vast imaginary cities. Duboy takes his study further, into the realm of Charles Fourier andhis brother-in-law Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and from there to the world of the dadaists, surrealists, and futurists, particularly the circles of Marcel Duchamp and Le Corbusier. He suggests that Duchamp and Raymond Rousell tampered with the Lequeu drawings to concoct a character and oeuvre even more puzzling. There are glimpses of Duchamp's convolutions of mind that will stir a reassessment of his work. Duchamp emerges here, for the first time, as an intrepid and unwavering despiser of Le Corbusier. Twentieth-century reputations are as much at stake in this study as those of the eighteenth-century artist, notes Robin Middleton. Philippe Duboy is Professor of the History of Cities, Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.
The Genius of Architecture, Or, The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations
Author: Nicolas Le Camus de MézièresPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892362356
Category : Aesthetics, French
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
Boullée & Visionary Architecture
Author: Helen RosenauPublisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description