Piranesi and the Modern Age
$90.44
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2023
Summary
The etchings of the Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) have long mesmerized viewers. But, as Victor Plahte Tschudi shows, artists and writers of the modern era found in these works—Piranesi’s visions of contradictory space, endless vistas, and self-perpetuating architecture—a formulation of the modern.
In Piranesi and the Modern Age, Tschudi explores the complex appropriation and continual rediscoveries of Piranesi by modern li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047173 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047179 |
| Author: | Victor Plahte Tschudi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 203mm |
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“Elegant prose and beautiful design mark Piranesi and the Modern Age. Gatefold illustrations, rare creatures in the kingdom of university press books, enrich the compact volume. Tschudi’s ideas are supported by a wonderfully rich array of sources, from MoMA insurance receipts to interviews with contemporary architects and nineteenth-century novels. He deftly portrays the broad and diverse audience that took up Piranesi in the last century, a group whose members leaned towards objectives that were as varied as they were.”
—Burlington Magazine
About The Author
Victor Plahte Tschudi
Victor Plahte Tschudi is Professor in Architectural History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the author of Baroque Antiquity- Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe. He curated the 2022 exhibition “Piranesi and the Modern Age” at the National Museum of Norway.
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