The invention of the historic monument / Françoise Choay ; translated by Lauren M. O'Connell.

Main entry:

Choay, Françoise.

Title & Author:

The invention of the historic monument / Françoise Choay ; translated by Lauren M. O'Connell.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description:

vii, 247 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
Monument and Historic Monument -- Ch. 1. Humanisms and the Ancient Monument -- Classical Greek Art and Ancient Humanities -- Antique Remains and Medieval Humanitas -- The Classicizing Phase of the Quattrocento -- Ch. 2. The Age of the Antiquarians: Real Monuments and Represented Monuments -- National Antiquities -- Gothic -- The Advent of the Image -- The Enlightenment -- Actual Conservation and Iconographical Conservation -- Ch. 3. The French Revolution -- Classifying the Heritage -- Vandalism and Conservation: Interpretations and Secondary Effects -- Values -- Ch. 4. The Consecration Phase: Institutionalization of the Historic Monument, 1820-1960 -- The Concept of the Historic Monument as Such -- Conservational Practices: Legislation and Restoration -- Restoration as a Discipline -- Syntheses -- Ch. 5. The Invention of an Urban Heritage -- The Memorial Figure -- The Historical Figure: Its Propaedeutic Role -- The Historical Figure: Its Museal Role -- The Historical Figure -- Ch. 6. Historic Heritage and the Contemporary Culture Industry -- From Cult to Industry -- Valorization -- Integration into Contemporary Life -- Negative Effects -- Strategic Conservation -- Epilogue: The Competence to Build -- The Patrimonial Mirror: A Form of Narcissism -- The Real Stakes of the Patrimonial Syndrome -- An Escape from Narcissism: The Patrimonial Mirror Averted.

ISBN:

0521454743 (hc.)
9780521454742

Subject:

Architecture and history.
Monuments Conservation and restoration.
Historic preservation.
Architecture et histoire.
Monuments Conservation et restauration.
Préservation historique.
historic preservation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216349
Call No.: NA2543.H55 C4 2000
Status: Available

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