Etienne louis boullee biography books

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First printing. Translation by James Emmons of "�tienne-Louis Boullee, , de l'architecture classique � l'architecture revolutionnaire" (Arts et metiers graphiques, ).

Softcover volume, measuring approximately " x ", shows moderate wear, with very mildly bumped outside corners.

Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This work contains b&w illustrations, as well as endnotes, glossary, chronology of the life of Boullee, selected bibliography, and an index. Price of $ appears in upper outside corner of front cover. pages. "Boullee's work provides, as a matter of fact, some particularly illuminating insights into that permanent revolution, that great movement of ideas, that violent uprush of imagination which marked the history of the arts in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

It helps us to understand how the backward-looking aesthetic of the champions of a return to antiquity was transformed into a forward-looking asethetic which is not unrelated to that of the twentieth century. Boullee played a definite part in the anti-rococo movement which, arising in France in the s, answered the desire for a return to classical equilibrium -- in other words, to the national tradition so expressed by the French artist of the seventeenth century.

In the s, when antiquizing classicism was at its height in Europe, Boullee designed some remarkable examples of a return to the grandeur of antique architecture. But he was not the initiator of this style. He was, however, the principal theorist of one of the most progressive forms of neoclassical art -- the revolutionary architecture which appeared toward For it was Boullee's later designs which, by their rediscovery of the natural sources of architecture, gave new meaning to the exploration of antiquity." (Introduction).

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