Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning by Gunter Bandmann

Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning by Gunter Bandmann

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.

Probably the most important contribution to understanding [the] history of architecture.. The content of the work is so comprehensive, the author's excursions into related fields shed light onto so many new and surprising relationships, that it is impossible even to enumerate the variety of the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of the book. -- Paul Zucker Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism It makes a timely, welcome addition to essential library holdings in those areas... Highly recommended. Choice Thanks to Kendall Wallis's careful translation the English-speaking world now has the opportunity to rediscover ideas that have endured for more than half a century. Comitatus

Gunter Bandmann was an eminent German historian who wrote on architecture and church history. Kendall Wallis is the humanities and social sciences librarian at McGill University. Hans Boker is professor of architectural history at McGill University.

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ISBN 13	9780231127042
ISBN 10	0231127049
Title	Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning
Author	Gunter Bandmann
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2005-07-06
Number of pages	368
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