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Sculpture and enlightenment / Erika Naginski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naginski, Erika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public sculpture--Europe.
- Public sculpture.
- Sculpture, European--18th century.
- Sculpture, European.
- Architecture--Europe--History--18th century.
- Architecture.
- Memorials.
- Monuments.
- Symbolism in art.
- Europe.
- History.
- Symbolism in art--Europe.
- Monuments--Europe.
- Memorials--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, [2009]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The pyramid, the fragment, and the Royal Necropolis. Vandalisme avant la lettre
- Grave architecture
- Monasticism under fire
- Diderot's monument. Skepticism and the afterlife
- Allegories of conjugal virtue
- The Sens Monument
- Sculpture and Polemos. "Sculpture, like history-"
- Ingenium
- Hermathena (on visual polemics)
- The temple of revolution. In Quintilian's footsteps
- The rites of man and citizen
- Posterity's conundrum
- The object of contempt. Propulsion
- Dispersion
- Reassembly
- Illustration credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780892369591
- 0892369590
- OCLC:
- 261176928
- Publisher Number:
- 99934637174
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