Neoclassicism by Hugh Honour
English summary: Neo-classicism is often misunderstood as a cold, pedantic, even bombastic artistic movement. The present volume seeks to rehabilitate Neo-classicism, explaining its esthetic, philosophical, and political implications, through the example of both famous and little-known artists from across Europe. French description: De tous les courants artistiques europeens, le neo-classicisme est sans doute celui sur lequel s'accumule le plus grand nombre de malentendus. Heureusement, depuis une trentaine d'annees, en France et a l'etranger, de nombreuses expositions ont ete consacrees a ce mouvement ou a ses plus grands heros. Malgre tout, les cliches ont la vie dure, selon lesquels le neo-classicisme serait un compose de froideur et de pedanterie, un art litteraire et grandiloquent. Hugh Honour en propose une rehabilitation passionnante, qui embrasse toutes les techniques artistiques. Au lieu d'offrir un survol chronologique scolaire, il explicite les enjeux esthetiques, philosophiques ou politiques, analyse quelques exemples cles, fait decouvrir des artistes singuliers et meconnus, qui partageaient des ideaux voisins d'un bout a l'autre de l'Europe, et rend justice a des genies tels que Ledoux, David ou Canova, dont il fait ressortir toutes les facettes.
John Fleming was a British art historian known for his writing partnership with Hugh Honour. His book, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome, won the Bannister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal. He lived with Honour in Italy for most of his life, and died in 2001. Hugh Honour was a British art historian. He was elected in 1972 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature due to his fruitful career as a writer, often working with his life partner, John Fleming. He died in 2016. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German and British scholar of the history of architecture. A dedicated cataloger of the architecture of Britain, he was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a fellow of the British Academy, as well as the recipient of a CBE and a knighthood. He died in 1983.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140209785 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140209786 |
| Title | Neoclassicism |
| Author | Hugh Honour |
| Series | Pelican S |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1968-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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