Memory and Modernity
Subtitle: Viollet-Le-Duc at Vezelay
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780271018508
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Individual architects; Romanesque art; Sociology, Social Studies; c 1800 to c 1900; 19th Century Architecture; Specific Public Buildings Architecture; Architecture; Europe; Individual Architect; International Architecture - European; Religious Buildings; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel; History - General; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; 1814-1879; Basilique de la Madeleine (Ve; Basilique de la Madeleine (Vâezelay, France); Catholic church buildings; Conservation and restoration; Criticism and interpretation; France; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanu; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel,; Vâezelay
Description: "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.".

"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.