Böcker av Caroline van Eck

This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candelabra. Caroline Van Eck's study explores the intense interest taken by producers and consumers of art objects in objects that made the classical live again in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of appreciation? In this anthology, this question is approached from the angles of three disciplines: aesthetics, visual culture and art history.

Das von der Stiftung Aby-Warburg unterhaltende Warburg-Haus in Hamburg fuhrt mit Vortragsreihen, Stipendien und einer Warburg-Professur die Tradition der ehemaligen Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg fort. Mit der Publikationsreihe, in der Monographien und Sammelbande erscheinen, werden die Ergebnisse der Diskussionen und Forschungen am Warburg-Haus vorgelegt.

This title was first published in 2003. Germain Boffrand's Livre d'Architecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time by David Britt, Boffrand's text is here accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes written by Caroline van Eck who explains Boffrand's position within eighteenth century debates about architectural aesthetics. Beautifully illustrated, including all the pictures chosen by Boffrand for his original publication, this book is an invaluable tool for teaching the history of architectural theory and an essential work for any architectural library.