Sculpture and enlightenment
By: Erika Naginski.
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780892369591
Subjects: Public sculpture -- Europe; Sculpture, European -- 18th century; Architecture -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Symbolism in art -- Europe; Monuments -- Europe; Memorials -- Europe
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. The pyramid, the fragment, and the Royal Necropolis. Vandalisme avant la lettre; title: Grave architecture; title: Monasticism under fire; title: Ch. 2. Diderot's monument. Skepticism and the afterlife; title: Allegories of conjugal virtue; title: The Sens Monument; title: Ch. 3. Sculpture and Polemos. "Sculpture, like history..."; title: Ingenium; title: Hermathena (on visual polemics); title: Ch. 4. The temple of revolution. In Quintilian's footsteps; title: The rites of man and citizen; title: Posterity's conundrum; title: Coda. The object of contempt; title: Propulsion; title: Dispersion; title: Reassembly; title: Illustration credits; title: Index.