Geometries of Silence
Subtitle: Three Approaches to Neoclassical Art (Italian Academy Lectures)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231132084
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - General; Art / History / General; General; 18th century; Europe; History; Interior decoration; Landscape painting, European; Neoclassicism (Art)
First sentence: The fundamental aim of this chapter is to put the late eighteenth century and its decisive changes in outlook and taste into perspective, not to attempt a systematic reconstruction of a particularly fragmentary and complex historical context.