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Sculpture and enlightenment / Erika Naginski.

Fine Arts Library NB456 .N34 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Naginski, Erika.
Contributor:
Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
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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