Sculpture and enlightenment.(Brief article)(Book review)

9780892369591

Sculpture and enlightenment.

Naginski, Erika.

Getty Publications

2009

325 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

NB456

Naginski (architectural history, Harvard U.) examines how the French Enlightenment and its monuments worked over and against faith in church and crown to commemorate a civic and secular worldview. This transfer was reflected in the public art of the period, she argues, and was deeply fraught and ultimately violent. Through the sculpture of the period, she explores how theologized rationales for cultural production faltered and even vanished in 18th-century France; and how the art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social movements, and continental philosophies that delivered Western culture to the doorstep of modernity.

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