Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1973).
Seller ID: 10461
189 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "No century has searched so earnestly for its own style, with as little success as the nineteenth century. Artists and critics were so concerned with trying to emulat e the glories of the past that they overlooked the true expression of their age, the engineering feats of Paxton's Crystal Palace and Eiffel's Tower. Where an artist was designing an ornamental building he had the freedom to embellish it accordi n g to a past fashion; practical projects, however, presented scientific challenges to the designer and in overcoming them they achieved a new kind of harmony. Similarly the best painters of the time were found among doctors, engineers and invento rs , n ot among philosophers and courtiers. Their still-life, landscapes and homely subjects have been valued more highly by posterity than the lofty themes so admired by contemporaries. Professor Vogt describes the two scales of values in the lig ht of t he philosophy and events of the age which produced them..." Dust jacket has light edge wear, a few small closed tears, slight browning to flaps. NF/VG-
ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE PAINTING NINETEENTH CENTURY CRYSTAL PALACE EIFEL TOWER
