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The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France de Iris Moon

The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France

Autor Iris Moon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2016
As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the new imperial regime was accompanied by an awareness of the contingent nature of sovereign power. Contributing fresh perspectives on the architecture, decorative arts, and visual culture of revolutionary France, this book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472480163
ISBN-10: 1472480163
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
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
    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
 

Notă biografică

Iris Moon is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, architecture, and the decorative arts.

Recenzii

Iris Moon’s exciting reappraisal of Percier and Fontaine shows just how precarious monumental architecture can be: the Revolutionary instabilities underpinning their luxury designs for new Napoleonic elites demanded provisional solutions, fast responses, and adaptable designs. Her revelation of their process-oriented approach to architecture opens fresh perspectives on the visual culture of this time, from decorative arts to paper fantasies and mobile motifs.
Susan Siegfried, Denise Riley Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

"Professor Moon observes that the identity of the nobility that had been “fixed in seigneurial rights and inalienable ties to the land” and which disappeared in the Revolution, was replaced by “the mercurial personalities of Directory society”and wealth from capital and movable properties." -- David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago, H-France Review

Descriere

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the new imperial regime was accompanied by an awareness of the contingent nature of sovereign power. Contributing fresh perspectives on the architecture, decorative arts, and visual culture of revolutionary France, this book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.