The Architecture of Humanism - A Study in the History of TasteRead Books Ltd, 31.05.2013 - 274 Seiten The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition. It is recommended reading for all architecture students, and essential for those interested in the revival of classical architecture. |
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... poetry and morals, philosophy, politics, and science. For it is unluckily the fact that thought about the arts has been for the most part no more than an incident in, or a consequence of, the changes which men's minds have undergone ...
... poetry and morals, philosophy, politics, and science. For it is unluckily the fact that thought about the arts has been for the most part no more than an incident in, or a consequence of, the changes which men's minds have undergone ...
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... the one are transferred, with however little suitability, to all. Such, towards the close of the eighteenth century, was the case of the Romantic Movement, which, from being an enlargement of the poetic THE ROMANTIC FALLACY.
... the one are transferred, with however little suitability, to all. Such, towards the close of the eighteenth century, was the case of the Romantic Movement, which, from being an enlargement of the poetic THE ROMANTIC FALLACY.
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... poetic sensibility towards the remote, as such. It idealises the distant, both of time and place; it identifies beauty with strangeness. In the curious and the extreme, which are disdained by a classical taste, and in the obscure detail ...
... poetic sensibility towards the remote, as such. It idealises the distant, both of time and place; it identifies beauty with strangeness. In the curious and the extreme, which are disdained by a classical taste, and in the obscure detail ...
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... poetry and the enthusiastic antiquarianism of Paduan scholars. Nor, for that matter, is it more romanticist than the neoGreek architectural movement of the Hellenising emperors in antiquity itself. Why, then, it is natural to ask ...
... poetry and the enthusiastic antiquarianism of Paduan scholars. Nor, for that matter, is it more romanticist than the neoGreek architectural movement of the Hellenising emperors in antiquity itself. Why, then, it is natural to ask ...
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... poetry of nature with which the mediæval style was conceived to be related. Above all, they might act as a foil to the classical elements themselves, and do a dual service by stimulating the sense of history while they set off the ...
... poetry of nature with which the mediæval style was conceived to be related. Above all, they might act as a foil to the classical elements themselves, and do a dual service by stimulating the sense of history while they set off the ...
Inhalt
NATURALISMAND THE PICTURESQUE | |
THE MECHANICAL FALLACY | |
THE ETHICAL FALLACY | |
THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY | |
THE ACADEMIC TRADITION | |
HUMANIST VALUES | |
CONCLUSION | |
ANALYTIC SUMMARY | |
EPILOGUE 1924 | |
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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste Geoffrey Scott Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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