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The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980 (Paperback)
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In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried
Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to
the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo alla
Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern
were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it,
writing of Sant'Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the
whole pattern [...] from the ground to the lantern, without
entirely ending even there.' And yet he merely 'groped' towards
that which could 'be completely effected' in modern
architecture-achieving 'the transition between inner and outer
space.' The intellectual debt of modern architecture to modernist
historians who were ostensibly preoccupied with the art and
architecture of earlier epochs is now widely acknowledged. This
volume extends this work by contributing to the dual projects of
the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of
architectural historiography. It considers the varied ways that
historians of art and architecture have historicized modern
architecture through its interaction with the baroque: a term of
contested historical and conceptual significance that has often
seemed to shadow a greater contest over the historicity of
modernism. Presenting research by an international community of
scholars, this book explores through a series of cross sections the
traffic of ideas between practice and history that has shaped
modern architecture and the academic discipline of architectural
history across the long twentieth century. The editors use the
historiography of the baroque as a lens through which to follow the
path of modern ideas that draw authority from history. In doing so,
the volume defines a role for the baroque in the history of
architectural historiography and in the history of modern
architectural culture.
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