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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Curtis Mead (Professor of Architecture and Art History, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico )Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 7 Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.542kg ISBN: 9780271050874ISBN 10: 027105087 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 29 May 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Reconsidering Victor Baltard Chapter 2 Classicism and the Architect’s Education Chapter 3 Representing Paris Chapter 4 Decorated Construction Chapter 5 An Urban History of the Central Markets Chapter 6 Housing the City Epilogue on Function and Typology in Baltard’s Urban Architecture Appendix: Career Chronology of Victor Baltard Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<p> This book promises to make an important contribution to the literature on nineteenth-century French architecture. <p>--Kevin Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center This book promises to make an important contribution to the literature on nineteenth-century French architecture. -Kevin Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center Finally we have a thorough and nuanced monograph on the architect Victor Baltard, his contribution to the design of the world's most renowned public market, and his rightful place-and that of his oeuvre, including the markets-in shaping the modern French capital. -Helen Tangires, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art In this outstanding work of scholarship, Mead (Univ. of New Mexico) subjects the career of Victor Baltard, architect of Les Halles, the Central Markets of Paris, to an examination that commences with a discussion of the skepticism that has hovered over Baltard's reputation since the 1870s. . . . Highly recommended. -J. Quinan, Choice Mead's Making Modern Paris effectively situates Baltard's achievement fully within the currents of his period and demonstrates how the intellectual environment and administrative structures within which he worked contributed to shaping his approach to design. -Christopher Drew Armstrong, caa.reviews The great value of Mead's meticulous study resides in his expert demonstrations of Baltard's exceptional sensitivity to history and to historical context. These constitute a valuable contribution to our understanding of the architect's approach, and help open our eyes to heretofore obscure aspects of midnineteenth-century French planning more broadly. -Richard Wittman, Oxford Art Journal The great value of Mead's meticulous study resides in his expert demonstrations of Baltard's exceptional sensitivity to history and to historical context. These constitute a valuable contribution to our understanding of the architect's approach, and help open our eyes to heretofore obscure aspects of midnineteenth-century French planning more broadly. </p>--Richard Wittman, <em>Oxford Art Journal</em></p> The great value of Mead's meticulous study resides in his expert demonstrations of Baltard's exceptional sensitivity to history and to historical context. These constitute a valuable contribution to our understanding of the architect's approach, and help open our eyes to heretofore obscure aspects of midnineteenth-century French planning more broadly. --Richard Wittman, Oxford Art Journal This book promises to make an important contribution to the literature on nineteenth-century French architecture. --Kevin Murphy, CUNY Graduate Center Author InformationChristopher Curtis Mead is Regents’ Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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