"The question opened by the picturesque" : fragments and fractures in picturesque criticism and historiography

Author

Hunt, John Dixon

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton

Author (monograph)

Bergdoll, Barry (Editor, Collective Author); Oechslin, Werner (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton. 2006, 267-274

Publisher

Thames & Hudson, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Examines four discussions of modern design--by Robert Smithson, Yve-Alain Bois, Caroline Constant, and Elizabeth Meyer--which shed light on the picturesque in both criticism and historiography. Submits that the various modes of fracture or fragmentation in the original picturesque are features invoked by the writers in their understanding of modern sculpture, architecture, and landscape architecture.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Picturesque
• Aesthetics
• Architecture
• Landscape architecture
• Sculpture
• 1800-2000
• Historiography
• Art criticism
• Fragmentation
• Methodology

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Pittoresque
• Esthétique
• Architecture
• Paysagisme
• Sculpture
• 1800-2000
• Historiographie
• Critique d'art
• Fragmentation
• Méthodologie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024226

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