Routledge The Built Surface (Reinterpreting Classicism) (Reinterpreting Classicism S.)

Since antiquity, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed a relationship between the arts; modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. Published in two volumes, The Built Surface offers a series of essays in which the authors reverse this trend and examine cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases significantly expressive of their respective social, political, and intellectual histories. Synopsis Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing patterns of creation and reception. In the Classical tradition the education of the architect and artist has always stressed this relationship between the arts, although modern scholarship has too often treated them as separate disciplines. These volumes explore the history of this exchange between the arts as it emerged from classical theory into artistic and architectural practice. Issues of visual representation, perspective, allegory, site specificity, ornamentation, popular culture, memorials, urban and utopian planning, and the role of treatises, manifestos, and other theoretical writings are addressed, as well as the critical reaction to these products and practices. "The Built Surface" represents a variety of methods, approaches, and dialectical interpretations - cases where architecture informs the themes and physical space of pictures, or pictorial concerns inform the design and construction of the built environment. The exchanges between architecture and pictures explored by these authors are found to be in all cases ideologically potent, and therefore significantly expressive of their respective social, political and intellectual histories. About the Author Christy Anderson, Yale University, USA and Karen Koehler Yale University and Smith College Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler, Barry Bergdoll, Susan Sidlauskas, Alina Payne, Amy Ogata, Juliet Koss, Iain Boyd Whyte, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Peter Chametzky, Romy Golan, Christopher Pearson, Haim Finkelstein, Peter Barr, 'Terrence Diggory, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.