Architecture and democracy, democracy and architecture

Author

Westfall, Carroll William

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Democracy & the arts

Author (monograph)

Melzer, Arthur M. (Editor, Collective Author); Weinberger, Jerry (Editor, Collective Author); Zinman, M. Richard (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Democracy & the arts. 1999, p. 73-91, 3 ill.

Publisher

Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Argues classicism is the architecture of democracy and that "it must become the task of fair-minded people of goodwill to reclaim architecture for civil life and allow it to display the beauty of our civic intentions." Includes comments on 19th and 20th c. American architecture, as well as Greek and Renaissance examples.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- Architecture
• Architecture
• Democracy
• Classicism
• United States

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- Architecture
• Architecture
• Démocratie
• Classicisme
• Etats-Unis

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00207594

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