The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding revolutionary architecture in the decorative arts -- 1 Visionary friendship at the end of the ancien régime -- Clean sheets and wate...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Florence : Taylor and Francis,
2016
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| Schlagworte: | Symbolism in architecture Decoration and ornament |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (208 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Finding revolutionary architecture in the decorative arts -- 1 Visionary friendship at the end of the ancien régime -- Clean sheets and water magic -- Architects in training -- Sovereign doom -- Roman fever -- Solo missions -- An Etruscan friendship -- 2 Propulsion and residue: Constructing the revolutionary interior -- Rome à rebours -- Staging antiquity and austerity -- Revolutionary rearrangements -- Seek, record, destroy The eternal return of luxury -- 3 The Recueil de décorations intérieures: Furnishing a new order -- Paper studios -- Furnishing techniques -- Strategies of redaction -- Consuming desires -- Writing against fashion -- Between the lines -- Empire styles -- 4 The platinum cabinet: Luxury in times of uncertainty -- Pastoral pastimes -- Incorruptible precision -- Fast times in Consulate Paris -- Haunting season -- 5 Tent and throne: Architecture in a state of emergency -- Après coup -- Fantasies of the ideal villa -- A permanent work in progress -- Little pleasures -- The moving bivouac Political theology -- Divorcing the past -- Coda: Revolutionary atonement -- Selected bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (208 p) |
| ISBN: | 9781315316260 1315316269 9781472480163 1472480163 |