The dancing column : on order in architecture / Joseph Rykwert
First Edition. Massachusetts, London, MIT Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #379628
ISBN: 9780262181709
Physical description : xviii, 598 p. : ill., ma p., plans ; 28 cm. Notes : Includes bibliography, index. English. Contents : List of illustrations -- Preface -- Order in buildings -- Order in the body -- The body and the world -- Gender and column -- The literary commonplace -- The rule and the song -- The hero as a column -- The known and the seen -- The mask, the horns, and the eyes -- The corinthian virgin -- A native column? -- Order or intercourse -- Notes -- Abbreviations and ancient texts -- Bibliography -- Index. Subject : Architecture Orders. Columns, Doric. Columns, Ionic. Columns, Corinthian. Body, Human Influence. Eclecticism in architecture.
Price: €175.00