The imagining of community in European art and architecture, 1140-1617 : envisioning transcendence of, authority in, and foundations for community

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, David B., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Europe.

Art and society.

Architecture and society--Europe.

Architecture and society.

Communities--Europe.

Communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Edwin Mellen Press 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 six sets together opens prospects for re-imagining community and lays the groundwork for re-imagining the relation of arts and society. This book contains twelve color photographs and three black and white photographs.

Contents:

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 Obligation

2. 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 Community Appendix: Rethinking the Autonomy of Art

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Pictures and Figures.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-7734-1111-9

OCLC:

796383908