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Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World

Editat de Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iul 2017
In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens -- the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190272333
ISBN-10: 0190272333
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 68 b/w and 16 color images
Dimensiuni: 239 x 160 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The innovatic collection of essays ... opens our eyes to the critical re-examiniation of classically-inspired architecture and design between the mid-eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries in Europe and the US. ... the book charts a course for a fruitful collaboration between classics and classical reception.

Notă biografică

Katharine T. von Stackelberg is a historian and Latinist specializing in the representation of gardens and the ancient environment as cultural space in Classical Rome. She is the author of The Roman Garden: Space, Sense and Society (2009) and articles on the politics of Roman gardens and their representation of gender in both ancient and modern contexts.Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is an archaeologist and architectural historian who focuses on the architecture and gardens of ancient Rome, as well as their reception. She has published over a dozen articles on Roman gardens and architecture and their reception in the Classical Reception Journal, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She also examines Islamic Architecture in Syria and Egypt and its connections to the Classical World.