L’Art et la matiere

Les artisans, les architectes et la technique (1770-1830)

by Valerie Negre

Book cover: L’Art et la matiere

Extent: 324 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Architecture, Art & Art History

Series: Histoire des techniques

Series volume number: 11, 7

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(December 2016)

ISBN: 9782406063148

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $46.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(December 2016)

ISBN: 9782406063155

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $94.00

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The book examines the knowledge of artisans and architect-builders, describing how they wrote about and designed their techniques. It shows that the latter were innovators, participating in the movement of the aestheticization of technique and helping to redefine architecture at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

  • By (author) Valérie Nègre