Tracing Architecture
Subtitle: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism (Art History Special Issues)
Contributors: Dana Arnold (Editor); Stephen Bending (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781405105354
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Theory of architecture; Theory of art; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General; Architecture in art; Architecture; Prints, European; AESTHETICS; ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT; Philosophy / Aesthetics; Criticism; 18th century; Historiography
First sentence: Walter Benjamin's theory of art in the age of mechanical reproduction has been influential in its account of mass production, a consequent disjunction between art and its 'aura' and a concomitant democratization of the image in the late nineteenth century.