The Imagining of Community in European Art and Architecture, 1140-1617 : Envisioning Transcendence of, Authority in, and Foundations for Community.

This book takes up six sets of works of art that imagine community. These works do not illustrate concepts of community or make community an explicit theme. Nevertheless, the particular techniques and structure of each work project an imagining of community that is unique to the piece. Studying the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greene, David B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Temas:
Architecture and society > Europe.
Art and society > Europe.
Communities > Europe.
Architecture et société > Europe.
Art et société > Europe.
Communauté > Europe.
ART > General.
Architecture and society.
Art and society.
Communities.
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Visual Arts - General.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part One :Imagining Community: Belonging and Not Belonging to a Community; 1. Issues of Participation and Transcendence; 2. Three Case Studies of Pictorial Space, Viewers' Location and the Imagining of Community Participation and Transcendence; 3. Summary I: Self-Identity/Self-Transcendence and Participation in/Transcendence of Community; 4. Summary II: Self-Identity/Self-Transcendence and Continuity/Change in Individuals and Community; Part Two: Imagining Legitimate Power: Transforming Community by Transforming Power.
  • 1. Issues of Power, Legitimacy and Civic Obligation2. Botticelli's Lorenzo de' Medici; 3. Summary I: Botticelli's Achievement--New Markers of Resemblances and the Transformation of Political Power; 4. Summary II: Botticelli' s Achievement--Re-imagining the Legitimacy of Power and the Legitimacy of Art; Part Three: Imagining the Foundations of Community: The Well-Founded Building and the Well-Built Community; 1. The Search for a Foundation for Art and Community; 2. Public Architecture and Community; 3. Summary I: A Community and Its Architecture--Each the Foundation of the Other.
  • 4. Summary II: Transition to Future Studies of Arts and CommunityAppendix: Rethinking the Autonomy of ArtAppendix; Bibliography; Index; Pictures and Figures.

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