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Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning Gunter Bandmann

Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning By Gunter Bandmann

Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning by Gunter Bandmann

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This classic text-continually in print for more than half a century-analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire.

Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning Summary

Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning by Gunter Bandmann

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.

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Probably the most important contribution to understanding [the] history of architecture... The content of the work is so comprehensive, the author's excursions into related fields shed light onto so many new and surprising relationships, that it is impossible even to enumerate the variety of the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of the book. -- Paul Zucker Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism It makes a timely, welcome addition to essential library holdings in those areas... Highly recommended. Choice Thanks to Kendall Wallis's careful translation the English-speaking world now has the opportunity to rediscover ideas that have endured for more than half a century. Comitatus

About Gunter Bandmann

Gunter Bandmann was an eminent German historian who wrote on architecture and church history. Kendall Wallis is the humanities and social sciences librarian at McGill University. Hans Boker is professor of architectural history at McGill University.

Table of Contents

Bearing Bandmann is Meaning: A Translatoris Introduction Form and Type Reception Claim Aufheben Bauherr Indicating Coining Deputy Westbau 1. The Problem of Meaning in Architecture The Essence of Meaning The Medieval Work of Art Aesthetic Meaning The Current State of Research on Symbolic and Historical Meaning in Architecture Sources and Methods: The Sources Sources and Methods: The Methods 2. The Symbolic Meaning of Buildings According to Written and Visual Sources The Written Sources The Visual Sources Summary 3. Historical Meaning Tradition and Habit Turning Toward Historicity The Effects of Historical Meaning 4. The Decline of Symbolic and Historical Meaning Reform and Secularization The Predominance of Artistic Tendencies The New Awareness of Space Summary Afterword by Hans Josef Bker

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GOR007471881
9780231127042
0231127049
Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning by Gunter Bandmann
Gunter Bandmann
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Columbia University Press
2005-07-06
368
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