Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture /
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Author / Creator: | McEwen, Indra Kagis. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 493 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127848 |
ISBN: | 9780262279451 0262279452 0585482721 9780585482729 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-476) and index. English. Print version record. |
Summary: | "Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual accuracy of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius's purpose in writing what he called "the whole body of architecture." Devoting each chapter to a different Vitruvian "body," McEwen addresses such topics as the relation of the book and its author to Augustus, the role of beauty in forging the new world order, and the nature and unprecedented extent of Augustan building programs."--Jacket. |
Other form: | Print version: McEwen, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003 0262134152 |
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