| Description |
xiv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Guizot, Merimee, and Viollet-le-Duc -- 2. The Nationalization of Restoration -- 3. The Significance of Vezelay in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Viollet-le-Duc and the Reinvention of Vezelay -- 5. Vezelay: National Memory in Dispute |
| Summary |
"Memory and Modernity focuses on the first project of the renowned nineteenth-century French architect and theorist Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the restoration of the Romanesque church of the Madeleine at Vezelay in Burgundy. This is the first book-length study to approach the work of Viollet-le-Duc from the perspective of institutional and social history."--BOOK JACKET. "Examining in detail the architect's transformation of the church of the Madeleine, the book also draws out the implications of the project for understanding Viollet-le-Duc's theoretical development. Murphy shows how Viollet-le-Duc's rationalist interpretation of medieval architecture informed the decisions that were made about the restoration, but also how that way of thinking was influenced by the architect's experience at Vezelay."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-191) and index |
| Subject |
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Basilique de la Madeleine (Vézelay, France)
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Catholic church buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- France -- Vézelay.
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| SUBJECT |
Vézelay (France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50074011 -- Buildings, structures, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820
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| Author |
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879.
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| LC no. |
98041262 |
| ISBN |
027101850X cloth acid-free paper |
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