Domènech i Montaner / fotografías, Melba Levick.

Main entry:

Domènech Girbau, Luis, 1940-

Title & Author:

Domènech i Montaner / fotografías, Melba Levick.

Publication:

Description:

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 31).
Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"The architect Domènech i Montaner is considered together with Antoni Gaudí as the leading representative of Catalan Art Nouveau or Modernisme that had its beginnings in 1888. The more closely we examine the work of Domènech the more we see him as a 'modern architect' in the sense described by Professor Peter Collins. This architect-designer-historian-archaeologist-heraldist showed such concern for the many peripheral subjects that influenced the architecture of nineteenth-century Europe--historical allusion, analogy, meticulous detail, pictorial techniques, the oriental model, the use of wrought-iron and the incorporation of a variety of decorative arts--and drew on such varied sources as Viollet-le-Duc, Blondel, Choissy, Durand, Laugier, Owen-Jones, Ruskin, Schinkel and Hope, that we cannot fail to acknowledge him as one of that chain of figures whose ideas formed a dense, multi-disciplinary and at times contradictory discourse that was eventually to give rise to the phenomena of contemporary architecture. Domènech was perhaps the only one of his generation in Spain who had the courage to take up the challenge of his era, not by simplifying or resolving architectural problems on a provincial scale but by approaching them with the breadth of culture, spirit of exploration and discerning mind that have characterised our civilisation from the mid-eighteenth century onwards"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket.

ISBN:

8434307448
9788434307445
8434307669
9788434307667

Subject:

Domènech i Montaner, Lluís, 1849-1923 Criticism and interpretation.
Domènech i Montaner, Lluís, 1849-1923.
Domènech i Montaner, Lluís 1849-1923
Eclecticism in architecture Spain Catalonia.
Éclectisme en architecture Espagne Catalogne.
Eclecticism in architecture.
Architektur
Spain Catalonia.
Domènech i Montaner, Lluís (1849-1923) Estudio e interpretación.
Arquitectura Modernismo Cataluña (España)

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Levick, Melba.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 82589
Call No.: NA44.D6685.23 D6 1994
Status: Available

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