The Art of the Construction Site. Building and Demolition from the 16th to the 21st Century.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 23118 |
| Format | 23 x 29 |
| Détails | 288 p., publisher's half-cloth binding. |
| Publication | Gent, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461614728 |
How have humans seen, conceived, and imagined the space where construction has been carried out since the Renaissance in the West? The Art of the Construction Site. Building and Demolishing from the 16th to the 21st Century confronts the perspectives of observers—artists, journalists, amateurs—but also those of the actors who work on the sites—engineers, architects, contractors, and, more rarely, laborers. The result of close collaboration between art historians and historians of technology, this book reveals the multiple challenges of construction: technical, social, political, and artistic. Through this unprecedented gathering of documents and visual works, this book aims to contribute to a reflection on the anthropological dimension of the act of building and the importance of this act for our societies.
How have humans seen, conceived, and imagined the space where construction has been carried out since the Renaissance in the West? The Art of the Construction Site. Building and Demolishing from the 16th to the 21st Century confronts the perspectives of observers—artists, journalists, amateurs—but also those of the actors who work on the sites—engineers, architects, contractors, and, more rarely, laborers. The result of close collaboration between art historians and historians of technology, this book reveals the multiple challenges of construction: technical, social, political, and artistic. Through this unprecedented gathering of documents and visual works, this book aims to contribute to a reflection on the anthropological dimension of the act of building and the importance of this act for our societies.