Description: Product Description : Charles Garnier's Paris Opera: Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism (Architectural History Foundation Book) Charles Garniers Paris Opera 18611875 is one of the largest most flamboyant and most expensive monuments commissioned by the Second Empire of Napoleon III For years scholars have recognized that the Opera is key to any understanding of nineteenthcentury French architecture yet questions of style that have surrounded the Opera since its inception have remained unresolved By making systematic use of the mostly unpublished Opera Archive Mead fills in the missing links to previous investigations and unlocks the significance of this seminal masterpieceMead approaches the Opera through Garniers life In a careful analysis of the Second Empires intellectual climate he provides a new interpretation of the genesis of the Operas style Mead reconstructs in detail the social political intellectual professional and industrial circumstances of Garniers career as they were expressed through the Operas design and construction He shows that with the Paris Opera Charles Garnier revived French classicism by insisting on its necessary evolution to a modern expression of its time and on its empathetic origins in the rich complexities of human experience( it is an used product )
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Brand: The MIT Press
UPC: 9780262132756
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ISBN-10: 262132753
ISBN-13: 9780262132756
SKU: SONG0262132753
No. of Pages: 343
Book Title: Charles Garnier's Paris Opera: Architectural Empathy and the Rena
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Charles Garnier's Paris Opera : Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 1991
Subject: History / Romanticism, History / General
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 49.2 Oz
Item Length: 11.2 in
Subject Area: Architecture
Author: Christopher Mead
Item Width: 8.7 in
Series: Architectural History Foundation Book Ser.
Format: Hardcover
