Heteronomic Historicism
If classical architecture from Vitruvius to Winckelmann had been characterized by firmness, fixity, and ‘quiet grandeur’, the 19th-century monument stood anything but still. Architecture in the 19th century moved at a rapid pace, disseminated in the form of archaeological fragments, exhibition displ...
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| description | If classical architecture from Vitruvius to Winckelmann had been characterized by firmness, fixity, and ‘quiet grandeur’, the 19th-century monument stood anything but still. Architecture in the 19th century moved at a rapid pace, disseminated in the form of archaeological fragments, exhibition displays, texts, and images. One of the most striking examples of this newfound mobility is the proliferation of architectural images distributed by the new illustrated press. Presenting the old and the new, the high and the low, the local and the global alongside each other, the new media challenged the hegemony of classicism and opened up a new, heteronomic field of architectural expression and deliberation. Using the mid 19th-century public press as a point of departure, this essay addresses historicist attempts to legitimize architecture in an age when even monuments seemed to move. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7c529abb8404b64b96fd2a774c36dd92022-12-22T02:34:39ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesArchitectural Histories2050-58332017-04-015110.5334/ah.216115Heteronomic HistoricismMari Hvattum0Oslo School of Architecture and DesignIf classical architecture from Vitruvius to Winckelmann had been characterized by firmness, fixity, and ‘quiet grandeur’, the 19th-century monument stood anything but still. Architecture in the 19th century moved at a rapid pace, disseminated in the form of archaeological fragments, exhibition displays, texts, and images. One of the most striking examples of this newfound mobility is the proliferation of architectural images distributed by the new illustrated press. Presenting the old and the new, the high and the low, the local and the global alongside each other, the new media challenged the hegemony of classicism and opened up a new, heteronomic field of architectural expression and deliberation. Using the mid 19th-century public press as a point of departure, this essay addresses historicist attempts to legitimize architecture in an age when even monuments seemed to move.http://journal.eahn.org/articles/216Illustrated press, Austen Henry Layard, Assyrian art, Gottfried Semper |
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| title | Heteronomic Historicism |
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| topic | Illustrated press, Austen Henry Layard, Assyrian art, Gottfried Semper |
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