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Sculpture and Enlightenment
Erika Naginski
This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness―a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire?
Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects―from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon―the author appraises how the Enlightenment art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity.
Erika Naginski is associate professor of architectural history at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
336 pages7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
31 color and 78 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-959-1
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute
2009
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Erika Naginski
This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness―a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire?
Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects―from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon―the author appraises how the Enlightenment art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity.
Erika Naginski is associate professor of architectural history at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
336 pages7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
31 color and 78 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-959-1
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute
2009
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Erika Naginski
This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political consciousness―a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire?
Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects―from unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program for the Pantheon―the author appraises how the Enlightenment art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western culture to the cusp of modernity.
Erika Naginski is associate professor of architectural history at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
336 pages7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
31 color and 78 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-89236-959-1
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: Getty Research Institute
2009
